18 October 2002 NYT Crossword Clues

NYT Crossword Answer: 18 October 2002

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A
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P
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T
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N
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E
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S
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S
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Z
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A
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N
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I
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E
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S
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T
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T
H
R
O
W
A
S
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C
A
R
E
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N
T
O
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L
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O
S
E
L
E
A
F
B
I
N
D
E
R
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T
T
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R
E
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S
T
O
L
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G
E
M
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N
O
T
E
S
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S
T
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R
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T
A
P
E
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T
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E
R
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W
H
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G
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P
R
M
E
N
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A
D
D
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P
E
E
R
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O
R
I
E
N
T
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W
I
N
D
O
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W
B
O
X
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R
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E
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P
E
N
T
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N
A
I
F
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G
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A
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D
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E
R
U
P
T
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T
A
R
T
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R
U
B
E
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V
O
L
T
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A
W
L
S
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T
U
N
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S
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S
L
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E
R
E
I
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T
E
M
P
L
E
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V
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T
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A
M
I
N
B
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C
O
M
P
L
E
X
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E
V
A
C
U
A
T
I
O
N
P
L
A
N
E
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D
E
B
U
S
S
Y
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P
I
E
E
Y
E
D

Hints & Clues

Across
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Suitability : APTNESS
8
Best at buffoonery : ZANIEST
15
Frighten : THROWASCAREINTO
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Purchase with rings : LOOSELEAFBINDER
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Wear : ATTIRE
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Adaptable aircraft : STOL
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Prize : GEM
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Paper money : NOTES
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Mix up : STIR
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Hard-to-refute evidence : TAPE
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Level : TIER
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Kit-Cat Club member in 18th-century London : WHIG
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Certain puffer-uppers : PRMEN
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Include, with "in" : ADD
28
Look : PEER
29
Show the ropes : ORIENT
30
Planter : WINDOWBOX
32
Say "I'm sorry" : REPENT
35
Wide-eyed sort : NAIF
36
Wander : GAD
39
Go off : ERUPT
40
Snippy : TART
41
Rustic : RUBE
42
Fencer's move : VOLT
43
Punches : AWLS
44
Barbary Coast city : TUNIS
45
Map abbr. : ISL
46
"I kiss'd thee ___ kill'd thee": Othello : EREI
47
Shrine : TEMPLE
48
Nutritional group : VITAMINBCOMPLEX
51
Stranded person's wish : EVACUATIONPLANE
52
"L'enfant prodigue" composer : DEBUSSY
53
Stiff : PIEEYED
Down
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Setting for Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" : ATLANTA
2
Driver's license, e.g. : PHOTOID
3
Brought (out) : TROTTED
4
More intrusive : NOSIER
5
Jugs : EWERS
6
Reward for good pitching? : SALE
7
Maui-to-Hawaii dir. : SSE
8
Rubenesque : ZAFTIG
9
___ Day : ARBOR
10
Buzz's companion on the moon : NEIL
11
"Am ___ your way?" : IIN
12
Final stage : ENDGAME
13
Increase, as an incline : STEEPEN
14
Agony : TORMENT
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Surefire out : CASTIRONALIBI
22
Shake off : SHED
23
Multicolored breakfast cereal : TRIX
25
___ with (dated) : WENT
26
Head of the class : PROF
28
Two-cupper : PINT
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Write of passage? : OBIT
30
Mewled : WEPT
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"Ring out the thousand ___ of old": Tennyson : WARS
32
Brought back : REVIVED
33
Wearing : EROSIVE
34
Can opener : PULLTAB
36
Shoot-'em-up action : GUNPLAY
37
Chisholm Trail terminus : ABILENE
38
Gender-neutral : DESEXED
40
Score : TWENTY
41
Mess up : RUMPLE
43
Dramatic highlights : ARIAS
44
Fiesta Bowl site : TEMPE
46
They'll never fly : EMUS
47
Writer Morrison : TONI
49
With a needle: Prefix : ACU
50
Filch : COP