New York Times - Apr 27 2008

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Clues Answers
'Ah, yes' ISEE
'Bro!' MYMAN
'Heavens!' EGAD
'Illmatic' rapper NAS
'What a moron I am!' DOH
*Absence at a nudist colony? EMBARASSMENT
*Bugs HARRASSES
*Conspicuous NOTICABLE
*Doggedness PERSEVERENCE
*Event OCCURENCE
*Long, long time MILLENIUM
*Oblige ACCOMODATE
*Stick with a needle, maybe INNOCULATE
*Supplant SUPERCEDE
*Wee MINISCULE
1950s Braves All-Star pitcher Burdette LEW
2% alternative WHOLE
Actor Baldwin ALEC
Alphabet quartet MNOP
Alternative to dial-up DSL
Ambulance figure: Abbr. EMT
Anthem contraction OER
Archipelago part ISLET
Attempts HASAGOAT
Baseball's ___ league PEEWEE
Be EXIST
Below par ILL
Brusque TERSE
Casual attire LEVIS
Clean air org. EPA
Cliff SCAR
Close, as a relationship COZY
Cock-a-doodle-doo CROW
Commercial come-on REBATE
Commotion STIR
Contract specifics TERMS
Course after trig CALC
Crucial sleep stage REM
Cubic meter STERE
Debt acknowledgment IOU
Disarming words? DROPIT
Dorm heads, for short RAS
Dynasty of Confucius and Lao-tzu CHOU
Examination PERUSAL
Expose BARE
Farmer's ___ MARKET
Follows ENSUES
Foot, slangily TOOTSY
Freeze ICEUP
French noblemen DUCS
Gawk at OGLE
Gen ___ XER
Goldie of 'Cactus Flower' HAWN
Half-baked DOPY
Heavens SKY
International chain of fusion cuisine restaurants NOBU
Is undecided WAVERS
It's bowed VIOLA
Jazzy Jones NORAH
Judged, with 'up' SIZED
Karl Marx's one EINS
Laredo-to-Galveston dir. ENE
Laura of 'Jurassic Park' DERN
Least bold MEEKEST
Like cotton candy SPUN
Like some pens ERASABLE
Like the answers to the 10 asterisked clues, more often than any other English words, according to a 1999 study IMPROPERLYSPELLED
Like the carol 'Away in a Manger,' originally LUTHERAN
Literary inits. TSE
Long-haired sheepdog PULI
Loot SPOILS
Clues Answers
Luster SHEEN
Many August babies LEOS
Marked permanently ETCHED
Marmalade component PEEL
Massage target? EGO
Matriarchs DAMES
Miracle-___ GRO
Monterrey mister SENOR
Most massive HUGEST
Mustang competitor GRANDAM
Narrative ACCOUNT
Neighbor of Ga. ALA
O.K. mark CEE
Olive or apple TREE
Ooze SEEP
Opposite of 'nod off' PERKUP
Orator's no-no MONOTONE
Parish priests VICARS
Parish priests CURES
Pen, to Pierre STYLO
Photoshop options RATIOS
Plain STEPPE
Previously mentioned ABOVE
Product with TV's first advertising jingle, 1948 AJAX
Program executors, for short CPUS
QB Manning ELI
Rare imports, maybe EXOTICA
Regulated bus. UTIL
Relaxes, in a way EXHALES
Restaurant chain since 1958 IHOP
Rice-A-___ RONI
Rocker John ELTON
Root used in perfumery ORRIS
Running mate with Dick IKE
Series of rounds BOUT
Show up again REEMERGE
Some shampoos GELS
Somme times ETES
Spanish 'a' UNA
Spicy cuisine THAI
Stuck INAJAM
Suffix not seen much in London IZE
Swift's 'A Modest Proposal,' e.g. ESSAY
Symbol of happiness CLAM
T-shirt style VNECK
Target of many a Bart Simpson prank call MOE
The whole wide world ALL
They're seen in many John Constable paintings ELMS
Ticklish one? ELMO
Tip of the Arabian Peninsula OMAN
Toes' woes CORNS
Tops ONEUPS
Trendy MOD
Tribal council makeup, often ELDERS
Trying period for a doctoral student ORALS
Turn away ALIENATE
Type ILK
Violinist's need ROSIN
What a Tennessee cheerleader asks for a lot? ANE
Whatchamacallit GIZMO
When Earth Day is celebrated: Abbr. APR
Wine sometimes blended with Cabernet Sauvignon MERLOT
Without adjustments ASIS
Word of encouragement RAH
Writer/illustrator Silverstein SHEL
X-ray ___ SPEX
Yank or Tiger ALER
___ choy (Chinese vegetable) BOK
___ machine SLOT
___ profundo BASSO
___-garde AVANT