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NYT Crossword Answers for October 20, 2002

Sunday, October 20, 2002 · 140 clues

This page lists the NYT Crossword from Sunday, October 20, 2002: 140 clues, each with its answer behind a reveal button. For the newest puzzle, go to today's NYT Crossword answers.

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Across clues

  1. 1

    Scratch

    6 letters Hints for Scratch Clue page for Scratch

  2. 7

    Bogged down

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  3. 13

    Claret containers

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  4. 20

    Charge

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  5. 21

    So far

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  6. 22

    Swallowed humble pie

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  7. 23

    Battery power?

    13 letters Hints for Battery power? Clue page for Battery power?

  8. 25

    Layered entree

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  9. 26

    Gasteyer of "S.N.L."

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  10. 27

    Senior member

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  11. 28

    French collagist

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  12. 30

    Almost

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  13. 31

    Nobelist Hammarskjöld

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  14. 32

    Certain clock setting: Abbr.

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  15. 33

    Ring source

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  16. 35

    Go down

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  17. 36

    Hacienda brick

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  18. 38

    Mini?

    11 letters Hints for Mini? Clue page for Mini?

  19. 43

    La preceder

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  20. 46

    Procrastinator's catchword

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  21. 48

    SALT subject

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  22. 49

    American composer who pioneered in polytonality

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  23. 50

    Done, for Donne

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  24. 51

    Vents

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  25. 53

    Like windows

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  26. 55

    Elementary education

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  27. 56

    Skin pigment

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  28. 58

    Stoops

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  29. 59

    Take out

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  30. 60

    Spade, for one

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  31. 61

    Dracula roles?

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  32. 64

    Something nerds don't do

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  33. 65

    Shrill sounds

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  34. 67

    Screen writing?

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  35. 68

    Dry drink

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  36. 70

    Say yea

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  37. 71

    Arson?

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  38. 73

    Common Market: Abbr.

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  39. 74

    Storm

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  40. 75

    Card game with a Chinese name

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  41. 78

    Hall-of-Famers

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  42. 80

    "___ intéressant"

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  43. 81

    Get together

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  44. 82

    Snack bar

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  45. 84

    Cariou of "Sweeney Todd"

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  46. 85

    Rock climber's challenge

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  47. 86

    Synthesizer pioneer

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  48. 87

    Snacks

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  49. 91

    And so on: Abbr.

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  50. 92

    Yodels?

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  51. 96

    Wake Island, e.g.

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  52. 97

    Singer Sumac

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  53. 99

    Gets "warmer"

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  54. 100

    Big spender's roll

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  55. 102

    "Told ya!"

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  56. 103

    Kind of soda

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  57. 106

    Strand from a parent

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  58. 107

    Northeast Indian state

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  59. 110

    Clavell's "___-Pan"

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  60. 111

    Sleep inducers

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  61. 113

    Task for King Arthur?

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  62. 117

    Ceramic vessels

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  63. 118

    Bakery buy

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  64. 119

    1862 battle site

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  65. 120

    Like some olives

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  66. 121

    Prepares for more battles

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  67. 122

    Ceremonial dinners

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Down clues

  1. 1

    Paving material

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  2. 2

    It's heard at some baseball games

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  3. 3

    ___ Building, landmark on New York's Roosevelt Island

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  4. 4

    Director Jean-___ Godard

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  5. 5

    Hair color

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  6. 6

    Takes to heart

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  7. 7

    Teeny

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  8. 8

    Iditarod terminus

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  9. 9

    Server's edge

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  10. 10

    Duster

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  11. 11

    World leader elected in 1961

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  12. 12

    Hot 90's computer game

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  13. 13

    Old White House nickname

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  14. 14

    ___ advantage

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  15. 15

    Won't cooperate

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  16. 16

    "Time is money," e.g.

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  17. 17

    Struggle for a deadlock?

    13 letters Hints for Struggle for a deadlock? Clue page for Struggle for a deadlock?

  18. 18

    Cube creator Rubik

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  19. 19

    One of the deer hunters in "The Deer Hunter"

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  20. 24

    Doesn't keep

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  21. 29

    Sticking (out)

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  22. 32

    Subject to disproval

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  23. 33

    Physicist Georg

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  24. 34

    Phileas Fogg portrayer

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  25. 37

    False idol

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  26. 39

    Radio host Hansen

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  27. 40

    Very distant

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  28. 41

    Literary inits.

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  29. 42

    McCarthy's quarry

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  30. 44

    Takes it easy

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  31. 45

    Cause of Philip Boyes's death in a Dorothy Sayers novel

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  32. 47

    1970's sitcom

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  33. 52

    Cards

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  34. 53

    It means little to Chirac

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  35. 54

    Congregation divider

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  36. 55

    Mine entrance

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  37. 56

    Shakespearean queen

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  38. 57

    Reserve flier?

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  39. 58

    Exhaust

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  40. 60

    Shake up

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  41. 62

    Raid targets

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  42. 63

    Oscars' org.

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  43. 64

    Fail to pay the freight

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  44. 66

    Some contests

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  45. 68

    Comportment

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  46. 69

    Fluorescent lamp filler

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  47. 72

    She wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"

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  48. 75

    Food

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  49. 76

    Vigorously, of old

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  50. 77

    Played the shrew

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  51. 79

    Democratic donkey designer

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  52. 82

    Schmaltz

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  53. 83

    Wood of the Rolling Stones

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  54. 85

    Cheerleader, often

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  55. 86

    Work for eds.

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  56. 88

    Antagonistic

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  57. 89

    "The Lion in Winter" queen

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  58. 90

    Sites for bells

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  59. 93

    Long

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  60. 94

    Deep thought

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  61. 95

    Quid pro quo

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  62. 98

    Mazda model

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  63. 101

    Off

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  64. 103

    Dances to jazz

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  65. 104

    Each

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  66. 105

    "Unfaithful" star

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  67. 107

    Thickening agent

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  68. 108

    Mason's wedge

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  69. 109

    Orch. section

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  70. 112

    Charlie Chaplin's brother

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  71. 114

    Wharf workers' org.

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  72. 115

    "Evita" narrator

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  73. 116

    Billy, for one

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