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New York Times: Friday, October 1, 1999
Below is the full solution for the Friday, October 1, 1999 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
John Wolting
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Good thing to find a lot of
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Good thing to find a lot of
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English speaker in Africa
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English speaker in Africa
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Perfect plot
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Perfect plot
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Where to find a date
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Where to find a date
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Match stopper
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Match stopper
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Playwright Burrows
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Playwright Burrows
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A chorus line
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A chorus line
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They may crash and break
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They may crash and break
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Have an edge against
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Have an edge against
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One with a list
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One with a list
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In the thick of
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In the thick of
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Migrating salmon
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Migrating salmon
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Concern of the force?
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Concern of the force?
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Secret society's secret
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Secret society's secret
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Post delivery: Abbr.
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Post delivery: Abbr.
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Spicy cuisine
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Spicy cuisine
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Batting practice aid
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Batting practice aid
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Some relations
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Some relations
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Familiar symbol
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Familiar symbol
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Press ___
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Press ___
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Kind of damages
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Kind of damages
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Poet who wrote of "Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp"
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Poet who wrote of "Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp"
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Redondilla rhyme scheme
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Redondilla rhyme scheme
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Overdue
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Overdue
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Hoops Hall-of-Famer Thurmond
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Hoops Hall-of-Famer Thurmond
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Kirshner of "Mad City"
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Kirshner of "Mad City"
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Brown or Rice
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Brown or Rice
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Split land
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Split land
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Glorifies
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Glorifies
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Marvelous person?
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Marvelous person?
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Nero Wolfe, by birth
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Nero Wolfe, by birth
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Kind of ware
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Kind of ware
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Spheres
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Spheres
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They're historically significant
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They're historically significant
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Be faulty?
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Be faulty?
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Crash site?
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Crash site?
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It may be taken in in an inn
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It may be taken in in an inn
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Took for a time
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Took for a time
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Flakes
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Flakes
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Lowdown
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Lowdown
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Preceder of some surnames
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Preceder of some surnames
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Social butterfly
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Social butterfly
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Synfuel source
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Synfuel source
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Astronomers' subjects
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Astronomers' subjects
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Slimeball
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Slimeball
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Rub the wrong way
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Rub the wrong way
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Llanelli locale
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Llanelli locale
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Trading letters
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Drop-in
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Drop-in
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Figure: Abbr.
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Figure: Abbr.
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Kind of curve
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Kind of curve
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City on the Skunk
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City on the Skunk
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Dog-eared
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Dog-eared
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Put down stakes?
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Put down stakes?
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Its principal ore is columbite
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Its principal ore is columbite
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Word-perfect?
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Word-perfect?
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It may lead to an outlet
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It may lead to an outlet
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Pro at completing schedules
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Pro at completing schedules
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Snowboard's cousin
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Snowboard's cousin
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33-Across dish
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33-Across dish
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Dark brown fur
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Dark brown fur
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Go on ___ (rampage)
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Go on ___ (rampage)
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Not fantastic
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Dye
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Dye
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Novelist Didion
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"From Here to Eternity" actress
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"From Here to Eternity" actress
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Boffo letters
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Draft, say
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Draft, say
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Farm deliverer
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Farm deliverer
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Track
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