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New York Times: Friday, July 31, 2009
Below is the full solution for the Friday, July 31, 2009 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Mike Nothnagel
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"___ better be!"
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"___ better be!"
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Factory staple
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Factory staple
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Abbr. in a "works cited" list
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"I'm not done yet!"
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"I'm not done yet!"
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It's passed on
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It's passed on
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Oscar-nominated portrayer of Frida Kahlo
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Oscar-nominated portrayer of Frida Kahlo
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Discipline
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Discipline
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Financial statement abbr.
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Financial statement abbr.
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Reason to make a prank call, maybe
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Reason to make a prank call, maybe
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What a player may mean by knocking on the table
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What a player may mean by knocking on the table
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Relatively close
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Relatively close
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Subject of the 1955 film "The Last Command"
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Subject of the 1955 film "The Last Command"
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Baby shower gift
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Baby shower gift
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Band members with long necks?
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Band members with long necks?
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Many students on "Gilmore Girls"
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Many students on "Gilmore Girls"
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It's 11 miles NNW of JFK
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It's 11 miles NNW of JFK
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Something not on the menu
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Something not on the menu
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Roll top?
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Roll top?
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Certain correlative
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Certain correlative
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Really appeal to
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Really appeal to
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Early TV news commentator famous for doing Timex ads
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Early TV news commentator famous for doing Timex ads
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Heads up
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Heads up
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Makes scarce
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Makes scarce
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Where a fouled player might go
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Where a fouled player might go
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Crystallizes
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Crystallizes
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Passage blockers
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Passage blockers
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Stars participate in it: Abbr.
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Stars participate in it: Abbr.
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Pendant option
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Pendant option
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Comics character with a "gang"
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Comics character with a "gang"
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Not be a nobody
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Not be a nobody
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Passage enabler
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Passage enabler
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Not natural
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Not natural
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Bond
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Bond
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City in 1917 headlines
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City in 1917 headlines
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Minute, informally
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"Not ___!"
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Wasn't full of holes
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Wasn't full of holes
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The Adriatic vis-Ã -vis the Mediterranean
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The Adriatic vis-Ã -vis the Mediterranean
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Red-handed
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Red-handed
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Helen Thomas in the White House press corps, e.g.
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Helen Thomas in the White House press corps, e.g.
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Boiling point?
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Boiling point?
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Cry of surprise
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Cry of surprise
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March on
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March on
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It contains 613 mitzvot
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It contains 613 mitzvot
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"... love's shadows ___ rich in joy!": Romeo
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"... love's shadows ___ rich in joy!": Romeo
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___ of all
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___ of all
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Onetime C.I.A.-backed foreign leader
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Onetime C.I.A.-backed foreign leader
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Plumber seen in an arcade
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Mayo sauce?
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Mayo sauce?
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Computer debut of 1998
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Computer debut of 1998
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They might store electric charges
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They might store electric charges
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Nike rival
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Nike rival
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Part of M.P.A.A.: Abbr.
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Part of M.P.A.A.: Abbr.
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Slimming option, for short
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Slimming option, for short
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Fast Eddie's girlfriend in "The Hustler"
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Fast Eddie's girlfriend in "The Hustler"
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It might store an electric charge
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It might store an electric charge
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It's often piercing
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It's often piercing
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Vultures were sacred to him
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Vultures were sacred to him
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Refuge
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Refuge
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Cardinal
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Cardinal
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Like many beachgoers
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Like many beachgoers
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Single-___
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Single-___
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Become rapturous
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Become rapturous
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Product of glacial erosion
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Product of glacial erosion
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Square things
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Square things
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Make rapturous
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Make rapturous
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Independent, noble types, it's said
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Independent, noble types, it's said
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Typist's position
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Typist's position
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Remains
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Remains
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It comes after the last number
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It comes after the last number
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Troglodyte
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Troglodyte
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"My baby at my breast," in Shakespeare
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"My baby at my breast," in Shakespeare
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