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New York Times: Friday, October 15, 2021
Below is the full solution for the Friday, October 15, 2021 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Ashton Anderson
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Enthusiastic assent
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Enthusiastic assent
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Certain service
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Certain service
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Packs (down)
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Packs (down)
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Important leadership skill
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Important leadership skill
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Classic neo-grotesque typeface
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Classic neo-grotesque typeface
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"Losing some illusions ... perhaps to acquire others," per Virginia Woolf
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"Losing some illusions ... perhaps to acquire others," per Virginia Woolf
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Gloomy and drab
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Gloomy and drab
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Cause of an early lead, maybe
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Cause of an early lead, maybe
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Like a spitball
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Like a spitball
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Darth Vader's childhood nickname
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Darth Vader's childhood nickname
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Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit"
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Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit"
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Sticky stuff
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Sticky stuff
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Hardly mainstream
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Hardly mainstream
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Pluto, e.g.
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Pluto, e.g.
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Sudden sensation
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Sudden sensation
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Cutesy "I beg your pardon?"
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Cutesy "I beg your pardon?"
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"What a shocker"
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"What a shocker"
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"Heaven forbid!"
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"Heaven forbid!"
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Singer Mitchell
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Singer Mitchell
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Shapiro of NPR
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Shapiro of NPR
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John B. Goodenough is the oldest person ever to get one (at age 97)
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John B. Goodenough is the oldest person ever to get one (at age 97)
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Travel guess, for short
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Travel guess, for short
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Joyous song
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Joyous song
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"Ambient 1: Music for Airports" musician
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"Ambient 1: Music for Airports" musician
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Candy cooked until it reaches the hard-crack stage
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Candy cooked until it reaches the hard-crack stage
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Approach
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Approach
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Tell all
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Tell all
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Strutting one's stuff
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Strutting one's stuff
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Kind of moment worth recording
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Kind of moment worth recording
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Xenomorphs, e.g.
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Xenomorphs, e.g.
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Cart contents
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Cart contents
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What air is not for an anaerobe
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What air is not for an anaerobe
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Looked at suspiciously
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Looked at suspiciously
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Throw on the couch
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Throw on the couch
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Angel said to have visited Joseph Smith
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Angel said to have visited Joseph Smith
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Like shunga woodblock prints
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Like shunga woodblock prints
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What breaks as it first comes out
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What breaks as it first comes out
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"The Pinkprint" rapper
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"The Pinkprint" rapper
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Belligerent, slangily
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Belligerent, slangily
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"Put a sock in it!"
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"Put a sock in it!"
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500 letters?
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500 letters?
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"I did it!"
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"I did it!"
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Like Mars
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Like Mars
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Psychological trick
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Psychological trick
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It's just the beginning of the story
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It's just the beginning of the story
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Sneaky sort
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Sneaky sort
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Model (for)
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Model (for)
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Composer Anton who used the 12-tone technique
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Composer Anton who used the 12-tone technique
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Main component in the Chinese street food jianbing
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Main component in the Chinese street food jianbing
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Children's classic originally written in German
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Children's classic originally written in German
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Nov. 11 honoree
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Nov. 11 honoree
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Sauce whose name derives from "pound" in Italian
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Sauce whose name derives from "pound" in Italian
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Double curve
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Double curve
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Crowdsourced Q&A site
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Crowdsourced Q&A site
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The Promised Land
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The Promised Land
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Honest-to-goodness
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Honest-to-goodness
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Fall apart
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Fall apart
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Zippy resort rental
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Zippy resort rental
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Joint application?
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Joint application?
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Tempt
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Tempt
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Took inventory?
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Took inventory?
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Home with a view
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Home with a view
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Unembellished, as the truth
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Unembellished, as the truth
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Bit of deception
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Bit of deception
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Lodge group
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Lodge group
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Loud bugling, e.g.
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Loud bugling, e.g.
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Concerning
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Concerning
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Appearing ill or exhausted, say
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