NY Times, Fri, Oct 17, 2008

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