New York Times - Jul 17 2008

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Clues Answers
'Take ___ face value' ITAT
'The Country Girl' playwright, 1950 ODETS
'The Worst ___ in London' ('Sweeney Todd' song) PIES
'What am ___ do?' ITO
'___ life!' GETA
'___ see it ...' ASI
'___ This Last' (series of John Ruskin essays) UNTO
A pitcher should keep it low ERA
Abbr. in real estate ads RMS
Agreement UNITY
Alice's pet cat in 'Alice in Wonderland' DINAH
Annoy NETTLE
Around CIRCA
Author James AGEE
Avant-garde filmmaker Brakhage STAN
Bay window ORIEL
Bird with speckled eggs WREN
Bits IOTAS
BOOM SPAR
Bounded LEAPT
Chirps TWEETS
Colorful lawn or garden fixture WHIRLIGIG
Coterie ELCRIC
Cotton pod BOLL
Doha's domain QATAR
Entered quickly RANIN
Exercised a legal option SUED
Fabled racer HARE
Forks SPLITS
Fraternity jewelry PIN
Funeral sight PYRE
Ha-ha, nowadays LOL
Headliner RATS
Hebrews, for example EPISTLE
Hesitate BALK
Hot spot SAUNA
Impending clouds, e.g. OMEN
Like a bell RUNG
Make rustle, as foil CRINKLE
Clues Answers
Many PCs once ran on it MSDOS
Middle range ALTO
Mobile home?: Abbr. ALA
Monarch immediately after William and Mary ANNE
More likely to cause slipping ICIER
Not straight up ATILT
Often-illegal maneuver UTURN
One of TV's Gilmore Girls LORELAI
One of TV's Rugrats LIL
Pale purple LILAC
Pancake Day is the day before this begins LENT
Pen pal in Paris, perhaps AMIE
Pennsylvania's northwesternmost county ERIE
Percussion instrument in an orchestra ELGNAIRT
Police protection VEST
Quits misbehaving ... or a literal hint to 4-, 9-, 13-, 49- and 57-Down SHAPESUP
Racetrack LAVO
Railroad crossbeam TIE
Sale day feeling MANIA
Salt or smoke CURE
Say no PASS
Slithering danger RATTLER
Small hill KNOLL
Small hill RISE
Something you might want to get to the heart of? ARTICHOKE
Soundtrack annoyance LAG
Starr of the Old West BELLE
Stood out, in a good way SHONE
They cross here WORDS
Tourist city between Jaipur and Lucknow AGRA
Type type: Abbr. ITAL
U.N. secretary general from Ghana ANNAN
Unfolds SPREADS
Unhip person ERAUQS
Winter melon CASABA
Writes odes to, e.g. PRAISES
___ colada PINA
___ place ONES
___ salts EPSOM