New York Times - Mar 23 2008

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Clues Answers
'Essential' things OILS
'Imagine that!' GEE
'___ joking!' YOURE
1976-80 Wimbledon champ BORG
A.T.M. need PIN
Activity in which spelling counts? SORCERY
Ad-libs and such REMARKS
Ally makers UNITERS
Answer RSVP
Assist in shady doings ABET
Attire not for the modest MINI
Bay ___ (residents of Massachusetts) STATERS
Beat-era musicians and orthopedists? HIPJOINTS
Bit of gridiron equipment KNEEPAD
Blood ___ SERUM
Boffo HIT
Boulogne-___-Mer, France SUR
Business card abbr. TEL
Cambodian money RIEL
Campaign feature DEBATE
Car with an innovative 'rolling dome' speedometer EDSEL
Certain chamber group OCTET
Certain investigators, for short FEDS
Champ just before 36-Down ASHE
Cheer greatly ELATE
Choir stands RISERS
Classic Hans Christian Andersen story, with 'The' REDSHOES
Cold war inits. USSR
College students and mattress testers? SPRINGBREAKS
Comedians and parade directors? STRAIGHTLINES
Completely bungle BLOW
Congestion site SINUS
Craggy peaks TORS
Defeat in a derby OUTRIDE
Desex ALTER
Despicable sort CUR
Din-din EATS
Dog after the winter, e.g. SHEDDER
Egg holder SAC
Eked (out) SCRAPED
Electrical engineers and news anchors? CURRENTEVENTS
Estuary RIA
Executed DID
Expressed delight OOHED
Exterminator's option POISON
Extravagant LAVISH
Eyed OGLED
Factory shipments: Abbr. GDS
Feels indignant about RESENTS
Flew PILOTED
Florid ORNATE
For all to play, in music TUTTI
Fort Knox officials and pop singers? GOLDRECORDS
Fruit-flavored soda NEHI
Gangster's gun ROSCOE
Gave DONATED
Geologists and music video producers? ROCKBANDS
Greeted MET
Heat-related CALORIC
Hercules or Ulysses HERO
Home of the newspaper Haaretz TELAVIV
Home of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge MAINE
Honcho NABOB
How Calvin Coolidge spoke TERSELY
Huge, in poetry ENORM
Hurdle for some college srs. LSAT
Hurried RACED
Hurt so bad ACHED
It may be pinched TOE
Itinerary word VIA
Clues Answers
Kept from home INEXILE
Kids JESTS
Lacking scruples AMORAL
Lavishes gifts (on), say DOTES
Less accurate FALSER
Lettered top DREIDEL
Like a guardian TUTELAR
Like some grievances UNAIRED
Machinates SCHEMES
Meal crumb ORT
Member of the familia MADRE
Mortgagee's concern ESCROW
Mournful TRISTE
Much smaller now SHRUNK
Nautical line TOWROPE
Needing bleach, say DINGY
Nickname once at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. IKE
Not touch LETBE
Note to be used later IOU
Obviously sad TEARY
Office newbie TRAINEE
Old West outlaws and aspiring thespians? STAGECOACHES
On ASTRIDE
Oriole or Blue Jay, for short ALER
Outdoor cover TARP
Oversee TEND
PC screens, for short CRTS
Prefix with zone EURO
Prince in 'The Little Mermaid' ERIC
Prominent D.C. lobby NRA
Rebounds and steals STATS
Religious pilgrimage HADJ
Robert who introduced the term 'cell' to biology HOOKE
Salon option WAVE
Search high and low SCOUR
See 13-Down ACTER
Set out SALLIED
Shak. is its most-quoted writer OED
Sharp ACUTE
Sharpeners HONERS
Show on the small screen TELECAST
Some Millers LITES
Some South Africans BOERS
Some volcanic deposits BASALTS
Sounds of anger or jubilation HONKS
Stepped aside, in court RECUSED
Stop DESIST
Striped animals GNUS
Stroked PETTED
Sudden floods SPATES
Supercool RAD
Symbol of thinness RAIL
The Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conf. USC
Tough spot JAM
Track figure TIPSTER
Twelve ___ NOON
U.N. chief ___ Ki-moon BAN
Under SEDATED
Wallop BASTE
Walter ___, author of 'The Hustler' TEVIS
Wands RODS
Western tribe OTOS
Where the antihelix is EAR
With 105-Down, a short play ONE
Without oomph TIREDLY
World travelers and wine connoisseurs? EXOTICPORTS
Wrestling locale MAT
You can say that again MANTRA
Zealous RABID
___ Magica ARS