New York Times Answers - Friday, 17th October 2008

There are 28 across clues and 27 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Friday, 17th October 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	What boosters boost
AAcross 7:	Coffin nail
AAcross 13:	Oil-rich peninsula
AAcross 14:	Ready to go, you might say
AAcross 15:	Ancient Romans	LATINS
AAcross 16:	Sherlock Holmes story not by Conan Doyle, e.g.
AAcross 17:	About whom Churchill purportedly said "A modest man who has much to be modest about"
AAcross 18:	Took the offensive
AAcross 19:	Of the north wind
AAcross 20:	In the buff
AAcross 21:	Curaçao flavoring
AAcross 22:	Joust participants
AAcross 23:	They offer rates for automobiles
AAcross 25:	Things that talk in sch.?
AAcross 26:	Isn't strict enough, say	SPARESTHEROD
AAcross 35:	Bitingly sarcastic
AAcross 36:	Splits with one's beloved
AAcross 38:	Skin soother
AAcross 39:	Attend to, as a loose shoe
AAcross 40:	Veteran
AAcross 40:	Veteran
AAcross 41:	Plant family that includes the hibiscus
AAcross 42:	Special announcer
AAcross 43:	Not behind the defenders
AAcross 44:	Topmost optic in a microscope	EYELENS
AAcross 45:	Nickname for a cheater in the Oklahoma land rush of 1889
AAcross 46:	Most valuable, possibly
AAcross 47:	James in many westerns	ARNESS
DDown 1:	Equatorial Guinea's capital
DDown 2:	Delivery professionals?
DDown 3:	It deserves to be condemned
DDown 4:	Town that Wild Bill Hickok was marshal of
DDown 5:	Pedigree
DDown 6:	Like paintings in progress
DDown 7:	Integration that exceeds the sum of its parts
DDown 8:	Semitic fertility goddess
DDown 9:	Price holder
DDown 10:	Winner over the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI
DDown 11:	Organic compounds used as solvents
DDown 12:	Swamp flora
DDown 14:	Showing the most wear and tear
DDown 16:	People of much experience
DDown 24:	Candor
DDown 26:	Servant in a cause
DDown 27:	Meaningless talk
DDown 28:	Thinks the world of
DDown 29:	Closet hangings
DDown 30:	Los Angeles County's ___ Beach	HERMOSA
DDown 31:	___ of Aquitaine, Henry II's wife	ELEANOR
DDown 32:	Passes, as time	ROLLSON
DDown 33:	Milky and iridescent
DDown 34:	Uses a key, perhaps
DDown 35:	Singapore lies just off its tip
DDown 37:	Offbeat Parisian tourist sites
DDown 38:	Behave cravenly