New York Times - Oct 19 2009

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Clues Answers
'Crazy' birds LOONS
'Fiddlesticks!' DRAT
'Ready ___, here ...' ORNOT
'Sesame Street' lessons ABCS
'Yuck!' UGH
*Apollo 11, 12 or 13, e.g. MOONSHOT
*Backwoods locale BOONDOCKS
*Commotion HOOPLA
*Home of the University of Arizona TUCSON
*Particle with no electric charge NEUTRON
*Stew made with paprika GOULASH
*Teased hairdo BOUFFANT
1950s prez IKE
Above, poetically OER
Altar vow IDO
Anglo-Saxon writing symbol RUNE
Art ___ (1920s-'30s style) DECO
Averages NORMS
B&B's INNS
Badminton court divider NET
Boozers SOTS
Branch of Islam predominant in Iran SHIA
Bungles, with 'up' MESSES
Church bell holder STEEPLE
Colorful shawls south of the border SERAPES
Commercials ADS
Cowboy's 'Stop!' WHOA
Cry one's eyes out BAWL
Double-reed instrument OBOE
Ending on a campus e-mail address EDU
F.D.R.'s successor HST
Fireplace residue ASH
Gaelic ERSE
Glistened SHONE
Golf peg TEE
Got smaller SHRANK
Gush (over) ... or sounds shared by the answer to each starred clue OOHANDAAH
Guzzled DRANK
Hawaiian garlands LEIS
Clues Answers
High tennis hit LOB
Immediately, to a surgeon STAT
Ka-blam! BOOM
Katmandu native NEPALI
L.A. campus USC
Lacking its wool coat, as a sheep SHORN
Liability's opposite ASSET
Long-feathered wading birds EGRETS
Male companions for Barbies KENS
Marches in protest outside a workplace PICKETS
Monteverdi opera hero who descends into Hades ORFEO
Nintendo competitor SEGA
Nobel Peace Prize city OSLO
Obstruction, as in a pipe BLOCKAGE
Outbuildings SHEDS
Parts of parkas HOODS
Place to buy a dog or dog food PETSTORE
Roller coaster and bumper cars RIDES
Selfish sorts EGOISTS
Sleeping, most likely ABED
Spike who directed 'Crooklyn' LEE
Still on the market UNSOLD
Stir-fry cooker WOK
Sudden impulse WHIM
Sunrise direction EAST
Sup EAT
Tactfully remove from a job EASEOUT
Taxis CABS
The 'Ed' of Con Ed EDISON
Tiny flourish on a letter SERIF
To the ___ of the earth ENDS
Tooth decay-fighting org. ADA
Tracking dog's clue ODOR
Truly INDEED
U.S. anti-trafficking grp. DEA
V.I.P.'s vehicle LIMO
Winter hours in Minn. CST
___ of two evils LESSER
___ Rica COSTA