New York Times - Oct 13 2008

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Clues Answers
'Based ___ novel by ...' ONA
'The Sweetheart of Sigma ___' CHI
'___ Breath You Take' (#1 hit by the Police) EVERY
100% ALL
Academy, e.g. SCHOOL
After-hours bank convenience ATM
Alternative to buttons on a jacket SNAPS
Alternative to the subway TAXI
Annual coll. basketball competition NIT
Assassinated SLAIN
Beta preceder ALPHA
Brunch cocktail MIMOSA
Caribbean area where pirates plundered SPANISHMAIN
CBS forensic drama CSI
Censure DAMN
City on the Penobscot River BANGORMAINE
Diamond or ruby GEMSTONE
Dresden's river ELBE
Dunk IMMERSE
Ecclesiastical councils SYNODS
Enthusiastic about INTO
Faux Chinese dish BEEFCHOWMEIN
Fermented apple juice CIDER
Firefighter's tool AXE
Footnote abbr. ETAL
French friend AMI
Gardner who was once married to Frank Sinatra AVA
Get-up-and-go VIM
Grandson of Adam ENOS
Hand-to-hand fighting COMBAT
Harrison Ford's 'Star Wars' role HANSOLO
Healing formation SCAB
Heavyweight zoo attraction, for short RHINO
Hero's acclaim GLORY
Hurler Hideo NOMO
Interceptions or yards rushing STAT
It's poured in pints ALE
Italy's Villa d'___ ESTE
Jupiter's Io and Callisto MOONS
Clues Answers
Kind of equation graphed as a parabola QUADRATIC
Kuwaiti pooh-bah EMIR
Louvre Pyramid architect PEI
Mom's mom, e.g. NANA
No-frills BASIC
Oaf CLOD
Outspoken, as a critic VOCAL
Painter of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' BOSCH
Physicist Georg OHM
Poet Nash OGDEN
Postnuptial relative INLAW
Prepare in advance of STUDYFOR
Proof finale QED
Rant and rage STORM
Rattlesnake's shape COIL
Reach across SPAN
Relating to an arm bone ULNAR
S.O.S ___ PAD
Sen. McCain JOHN
Serving of root beer MUG
Sherlock Holmes adventure, in brief THELIONSMANE
Skin cream additives ALOES
Small flock of birds COVEY
Someone to emulate ROLEMODEL
Stewpots OLLAS
Sub's navigational aid SONAR
Suffix with Freud IAN
Teen-___ AGER
The heel is attached to it SOLE
Tic-tac-toe win OOO
Translucent dessert JELLO
Truth ___ (interrogation injection) SERUM
Turner who sang 'We Don't Need Another Hero' TINA
With competence ABLY
Zero, in soccer NIL
___ incognita TERRA
___ lane (commuters' aid) HOV
___ Today USA
___'easter NOR