New York Times - Mar 13 2008

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'Black rat' as opposed to 'Rattus rattus' COMONAME
'Cool!' NEATO
'Scram!' BUZOF
'What a ___!' CONCEPT
About to bloom INBUD
Abridged, for short: Abbr. SYN
Amherst campus, briefly UMAS
Biblical patriarch whose name means 'he will laugh' ISAC
Blackmore heroine DONE
Bump JOSTLE
Bygone women's magazine MCALS
Cash substitute IOU
Catch ENSNARE
Catch up with old classmates REUNE
Cigarette brand that sponsored 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' KENT
Coeur d'___ ALENE
Covered walkway STOA
Delhi wrap SARI
Directories ADRESBOKS
Ditto SAME
Egyptian lifeline NILE
Eponym of a classic Minnesota-brewed beer HAM
Factory seconds: Abbr. IRRS
Figure usu. in hundreds or thousands of feet ELEV
Get out of a bind? UNLASH
Grammy winner Winans CECE
Half of a showy display? RAZLE
Here, in Toledo ACA
Himmel und ___ (traditional German potato dish) ERDE
Hipsters CATS
Humdinger ONER
Impostor FAKE
Job for Hercule Poirot CAS
Kennel club rejects MUTS
Knowledge KEN
Last place CELAR
Lawless role XENA
Lee Van ___ (spaghetti western actor) CLEF
Less conventional ODER
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Like some oil rigs OFSHORE
Loudness unit SONE
Low-grade?: Abbr. ELEM
Miracle-___ GRO
Misses the mark ERS
Mme., across the Pyrenees SRA
Northeast, on a map UPERIGHT
Once-in-a-lifetime traveler HAJI
Onetime Missouri natives OSAGES
Org. established by Nixon EPA
Overwhelm BOGLE
Parade honoree, familiarly STPAT
Point of no return? ACE
Practice area, of a sort PUTINGREN
Radical Hoffman ABIE
Railroad track workers SPIKEMEN
Reaches ARRIVESAT
Robot in 'Forbidden Planet' ROBY
Seconds: Abbr. ASSTS
Sharp KEEN
Shield border ORLE
Shortage of punch ANEMIA
Sights AIMS
Silk fabric for scarves FOULARD
Sorry sort RUER
Spice holder PEPERBOX
Splits SCHISMS
Starting fare, often SOUP
Stops on a sales rep's rte. ACTS
Sun. deliveries SERS
Support BACK
Symbol of power, to the pharaohs ASP
TV's Jack and kin PARS
Visibly stunned AGAPE
Way to the top SKILIFT
Without protection UNINSURED
___ Snider, frontman for rock's Twisted Sister DEE
___ the finish INAT
___ time INO