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New York Times: Sunday, November 8, 2009
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, November 8, 2009 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Robert W. Harris
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Oriole, e.g., briefly
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Oriole, e.g., briefly
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"Still waters run deep," for example
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"Still waters run deep," for example
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Microwaves
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Microwaves
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Bygone Toyota model
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Prefix with factor
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Prefix with factor
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Brand with a pyramid on the package
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Brand with a pyramid on the package
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Verve
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Verve
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Person with a program
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Person with a program
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"O say can you see" or "Thru the perilous fight"?
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"O say can you see" or "Thru the perilous fight"?
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Resident of a military installation?
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Resident of a military installation?
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Divine
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Divine
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Lace shade
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Lace shade
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Place on a bus
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Business card abbr.
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Business card abbr.
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Boxful for Bowser
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Boxful for Bowser
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Miss in Monterrey: Abbr.
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Miss in Monterrey: Abbr.
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Bring in
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Bring in
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Alarm
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Alarm
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Architect Saarinen
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Architect Saarinen
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Confronting boldly
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Confronting boldly
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Singer Simon
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Singer Simon
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Tropical fruit seller?
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Tropical fruit seller?
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Tape holder
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Tape holder
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Alley ___
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Alley ___
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Run down, in slang
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Run down, in slang
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Collectible disks
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Collectible disks
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Singer India.___
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Singer India.___
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Philadelphia's historic Gloria ___ Church
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Philadelphia's historic Gloria ___ Church
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Singer Horne
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Singer Horne
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Lacking serviceability
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Lacking serviceability
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Poet Federico GarcÃa ___
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Poet Federico GarcÃa ___
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Hair net
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Hair net
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Place to get drunk in the kitchen?
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Place to get drunk in the kitchen?
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About to get
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About to get
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A as in Austria
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A as in Austria
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Original nuclear regulatory grp.
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Original nuclear regulatory grp.
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Craggy ridge
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Craggy ridge
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What overuse of a credit card might result in?
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What overuse of a credit card might result in?
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"That's ___" ("It's done")
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"That's ___" ("It's done")
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Seasons
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Seasons
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Not so cool
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Not so cool
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Drains
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Drains
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Like, '60s-style
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Like, '60s-style
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Old brand in the shaving aisle
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Old brand in the shaving aisle
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Toledo-to-Columbus dir.
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"Casablanca" role
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"Casablanca" role
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Cool
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Cool
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Put back on the market
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Put back on the market
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Gentleman's intransigent reply?
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Gentleman's intransigent reply?
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Means of identifying wood
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Means of identifying wood
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Dry Champagne, e.g.
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Dry Champagne, e.g.
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Horseshoer's tool
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Horseshoer's tool
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Columnist Barrett
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Columnist Barrett
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&&&&
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This one, in Acapulco
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This one, in Acapulco
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Against
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Against
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Latin 101 verb
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Latin 101 verb
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Redheaded kid of old TV
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"The Time Machine" race
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"The Time Machine" race
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More than the immediate future
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More than the immediate future
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Where nitpickers walk on a street?
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Where nitpickers walk on a street?
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Online beauty contest?
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Online beauty contest?
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Obliterate
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Obliterate
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Nabisco product
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Nabisco product
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Group with the 2002 hit "Girlfriend"
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Group with the 2002 hit "Girlfriend"
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Isn't straight
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Isn't straight
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Cobbler's supply
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Cobbler's supply
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Seizes
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Seizes
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Drug agent's seizure
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Drug agent's seizure
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Handy ___
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Handy ___
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Toward the stern
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Poe poem
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Poe poem
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Beef Wellington, e.g.
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Beef Wellington, e.g.
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Take up again, as a case
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Take up again, as a case
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High points
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High points
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Place for a rivulet
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Place for a rivulet
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Porthos, to Aramis
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Porthos, to Aramis
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Produce
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Produce
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Bygone Buick
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Bygone Buick
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Indian bovine
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Indian bovine
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Part of many fancy dish names
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Part of many fancy dish names
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Part of a book ... or something to book
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Part of a book ... or something to book
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Scornful expression
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Scornful expression
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Tallow ingredient
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Tallow ingredient
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Blue Angels org.
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Blue Angels org.
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Sci-fi weapon
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Sci-fi weapon
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Vacation place, often
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Vacation place, often
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Boulevard, e.g.
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Boulevard, e.g.
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Impedes legally
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Impedes legally
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Whip
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Whip
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Sent a message to shore, say
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Sent a message to shore, say
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Guard
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Guard
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Heavy sheet inside a book's cover
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Heavy sheet inside a book's cover
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Away's partner
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Away's partner
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___ Motel
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___ Motel
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Home ___
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Home ___
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Pauses during speech: Var.
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Pauses during speech: Var.
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Had the upper hand
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Had the upper hand
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Score just before winning
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Score just before winning
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Bit of fluff
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Bit of fluff
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Back-room cigar smokers, say
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Back-room cigar smokers, say
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United charge
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United charge
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Back up
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Back up
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Object of a scurrilous attack, maybe
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Object of a scurrilous attack, maybe
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Like surveyors' charts
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Like surveyors' charts
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Most withered
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Most withered
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Makes flush
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Makes flush
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Cambodia's ___ Nol
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Cambodia's ___ Nol
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54-Down, e.g.
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54-Down, e.g.
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Goldsmith, for one
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Goldsmith, for one
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Crude transports
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Crude transports
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College world
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College world
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Utterances around baby pictures
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Utterances around baby pictures
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Moccasin decoration
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Moccasin decoration
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Diner manager/waitress in "Garfield"
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Diner manager/waitress in "Garfield"
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Shirts and blouses
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Shirts and blouses
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Rice ___
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Rice ___
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"Je vous ___"
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"Je vous ___"
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Gibson necessity
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Gibson necessity
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Most dilapidated
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Most dilapidated
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Muscly
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Muscly
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Cara ___ (term of endearment)
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Sherry-like wine
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Sherry-like wine
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Takes out of the will, say
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Takes out of the will, say
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Basis of 85-Down
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"Night of the Living Dead" director, 1968
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"Night of the Living Dead" director, 1968
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From one end of a battery
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From one end of a battery
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Cartwright of "Make Room for Daddy"
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Cartwright of "Make Room for Daddy"
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Group of viruses
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Group of viruses
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Trimmed
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Trimmed
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Quick
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Quick
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Subject of a museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.
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Subject of a museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.
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One way to fly
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One way to fly
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Fidgety
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Fidgety
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Till compartment
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Cause of star wars?
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Hosp. staffers
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Enzyme suffix
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Enzyme suffix
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Wyo. neighbor
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Wyo. neighbor
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___ hair
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