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New York Times: Friday, September 28, 2012
Below is the full solution for the Friday, September 28, 2012 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Ed Sessa
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Menlo Park middle name
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Musical with the song "Bui Doi"
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Musical with the song "Bui Doi"
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Receives, as a visitor
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Receives, as a visitor
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What cosmologists wonder
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What cosmologists wonder
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Word for quitters
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Word for quitters
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Got through
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Got through
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Heat
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Heat
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Gorge
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Gorge
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Aquí, across the Pyrénées
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Aquí, across the Pyrénées
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Dovetail part
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Dovetail part
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Be feeble-minded
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Be feeble-minded
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Like some mus. notes
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Like some mus. notes
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Judge in 1990s news
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Judge in 1990s news
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Neverland resident
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Neverland resident
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Maker of a special-delivery flight
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Maker of a special-delivery flight
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What shows its ribs?
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What shows its ribs?
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Things that are shot or fought
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Things that are shot or fought
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One way to resign
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One way to resign
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St. ___ (English boys' school founded in 948)
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St. ___ (English boys' school founded in 948)
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Stadium ear piercer
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Stadium ear piercer
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Chicken's yellow part?
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Chicken's yellow part?
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Swing a thurible around
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Swing a thurible around
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Texas hoopster
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Texas hoopster
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Phishing lure?
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Phishing lure?
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Arabian parent
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Arabian parent
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Eclipse alternative
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Eclipse alternative
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Like chestnuts
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Like chestnuts
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It may follow a cut
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It may follow a cut
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Milk curdler
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Milk curdler
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Classic Robert Burns poem, with "A"
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Classic Robert Burns poem, with "A"
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Certain something
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Certain something
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Be disengaging?
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Be disengaging?
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Grow tiresome
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Grow tiresome
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People person
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People person
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Some brackets
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Some brackets
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Mahatma Gandhi, for one
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Mahatma Gandhi, for one
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Provide for tenancy
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Provide for tenancy
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Atlantic follower, in Monopoly
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Atlantic follower, in Monopoly
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Turf leader?
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Turf leader?
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Hikers' helpers
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Hikers' helpers
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Madness
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Madness
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Potential downside of the information age
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Potential downside of the information age
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Hyperhidrotic
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Hyperhidrotic
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Otto goes after it
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Otto goes after it
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Swiss banks may be affiliated with it
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Swiss banks may be affiliated with it
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Pier grp.
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Pier grp.
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Began brawling
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Began brawling
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Draw for an inside straight, say
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Draw for an inside straight, say
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Old fast-food chain whose mascot's head was an orange
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Old fast-food chain whose mascot's head was an orange
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Bombing at a comedy club
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Bombing at a comedy club
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___ Homme (perfume brand)
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___ Homme (perfume brand)
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Blackhawk carmaker
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Blackhawk carmaker
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MoMA's "Two Heads" and "Birds in an Aquarium"
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MoMA's "Two Heads" and "Birds in an Aquarium"
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"Yeah, I did it ... oh well!"
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"Yeah, I did it ... oh well!"
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Directive for murder?
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Directive for murder?
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Quick spins?
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Quick spins?
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Whistler's production
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Whistler's production
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Rivets
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Rivets
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Tank named after a French W.W. II general
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Tank named after a French W.W. II general
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Inflatable lining
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Inflatable lining
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Daley's successor as mayor of Chicago
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Daley's successor as mayor of Chicago
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Pass out on the field?
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Pass out on the field?
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Some self-images
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Some self-images
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John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?"
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John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?"
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Many a cab
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Many a cab
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Knocked out
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Knocked out
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Fool on the ice
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Fool on the ice
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Cousin of a jig
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Cousin of a jig
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Singer Carly ___ Jepsen
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Singer Carly ___ Jepsen
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Pou ___ (basis of operations)
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Pou ___ (basis of operations)
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