New York Times - Dec 16 2007

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Clues Answers
'Answer the question' YESORNO
'Born Under ___ Sign' (1960s blues album) ABAD
'Delightful!' AAH
'Honest!' ISWEAR
'It's ___' (Pet Shop Boys hit) ASIN
'Just ___ thought!' ASI
'Like, no way!' ASIF
'My ___!' HERO
'Out of Africa' author DINESEN
'Too bad' ALAS
'___ and Janis' (comic strip) ARLO
'___ fan tutte' COSI
1950s TV name DESI
Advanced LENT
Airports DROMES
Assemblages THRONGS
Assemble again REGATHER
Attend GOTO
Awarded zero stars, say PANNED
Bogart/Bacall mystery about serious basement dampness? THEBIGSEEP
Brick holder HOD
Chaplin comedy about a religious migration? THEGODRUSH
Chihuahua, por ejemplo ESTADO
Chiller about glass-climbing reptiles? SNAKESONAPANE
Cloud of gas and dust NEBULA
Clover locale LEA
Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen ESA
Cookie introduced in 1912 OREO
County of Cooperstown, N.Y. OTSEGO
Court pseudonym ROE
Cowboy rival NINER
Creamy color ECRU
Current STREAM
Disco ___ ERA
Embellishment GILDING
Expensive box LOGE
Fished with a baited line TROLLED
Fixes RIGS
French red MEDOC
Funny Louis and others NYES
Game resembling crazy eights UNO
Garden figure EVE
Get set JELL
Get set PREP
Global warming? DETENTE
Goalie's area CREASE
Good ones are cracked JOKES
Had a life WAS
Had thirds, maybe OVERATE
Hens, but not roosters LAYERS
Home of 1-Down ERIN
Home of Chennai INDIA
Home of golf's Sony Open OAHU
Hotfooted it HIED
I.S.P. of note AOL
ID theft target SSN
In addition ATTHAT
In reserve ASIDE
Ingmar Bergman classic narrated by Jacques Cousteau? THESEVENTHSEA
Intuited SENSED
Itch YEN
Jazz guitar great Herb ___ ELLIS
Jealous Olympian HERA
Joan Baez's 'Farewell, ___,' written by Bob Dylan ANGELINA
Judicial cover-ups? ROBES
Keystone ___ KOP
Kitchen attraction AROMA
Kreskin claim ESP
Laila who dances in and out of the ring ALI
Like the letters on a dreidel HEBREW
Clues Answers
Loads ATON
Lois Lane player of early TV, whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme NOELNEILL
London Underground, with 'the' TUBE
Loser's cry RATS
M.D. PHYS
Magnifier LENS
Many Rice grads: Abbr. ENGRS
Meal with bitter herbs SEDER
Medieval hymn start DIES
Meter or liter MEASURE
Midwest native OTOE
Monkey business TRICKERY
Movie critic Kael PAULINE
Nautical danger SANDREEF
Not shown UNAIRED
Not wanting to fight, say DOVISH
O.K.: Var. INDORSE
Oaxaca women: Abbr. SRAS
Odd shares NINTHS
On and after ASOF
One heading down a slippery slope SLEDDER
One making a delivery MOM
Onetime host of 'Classic Concentration' TREBEK
Operate USE
Other: Sp. OTRA
Parade honoree, for short STPAT
Part of D.A.: Abbr. ATTY
Part of the Old World ASIA
Pay to play ANTE
Pic taker CAM
Pitcher of milk? ELSIE
Pizzeria in Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing' SALS
Pops DAD
Positive potential UPSIDE
Prequel to 'Reservoir Dogs?' PUPFICTION
Prison movie about a medical miracle? DEADMANWAKING
Private telephone channel TIELINE
Red ___ #2 DYE
Refuse TRASH
Request to Vanna White ANI
Romeo's last words IDIE
Sci-fi movie about gender discrimination? MENINBACK
Scintilla GRAIN
See 44-Across INTO
See 73-Across DEAF
Singer ___ Neville AARON
Sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands IRENE
Skull and Bones member, e.g. ELI
Sonoma neighbor NAPA
Spoof about the soul of a fraternity? ANIMAHOUSE
Stamp IMPRINT
Suffix with pay OLA
Thingum ITEM
Tim Allen comedy about unionizing seasonal workers? THESANTACAUSE
Tom Cruise action thriller about a nasty argument? WAROFTHEWORDS
Toothed, botanically DENTATE
Turn over CEDE
Turned down, in a way ONLOW
Tuscany city SIENA
Vampy wear BOA
Victor's cry IWIN
Way to go ROUTE
Wine made from the moscato bianco grape ASTI
Winter lift? TBAR
With 69-Down, not just hard of hearing STONE
With 95-Down, investigate SEE
With nothing to hide NAKEDLY
___ Hari MATA
___ Reader UTNE
___ wagon PADDY