New York Times - Oct 17 2008

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Clues Answers
About whom Churchill purportedly said 'A modest man who has much to be modest about' ATTLEE
Ancient Romans LATINS
Attend to, as a loose shoe RELACE
Behave cravenly COWER
Bitingly sarcastic MORDANT
Candor OPENNESS
Closet hangings RAIMENT
Coffin nail GASPER
Curaçao flavoring ORANGE
Delivery professionals? ORATORS
Equatorial Guinea's capital MALABO
In the buff STARKERS
Integration that exceeds the sum of its parts GESTALT
Isn't strict enough, say SPARESTHEROD
It deserves to be condemned RATTRAP
James in many westerns ARNESS
Joust participants TILTERS
Like paintings in progress EASELED
Los Angeles County's ___ Beach HERMOSA
Meaningless talk PRATTLE
Milky and iridescent OPALINE
Most valuable, possibly RAREST
Nickname for a cheater in the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 SOONER
Not behind the defenders ONSIDE
Of the north wind BOREAL
Offbeat Parisian tourist sites SEWERS
Oil-rich peninsula ARABIA
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Organic compounds used as solvents ETHERS
Passes, as time ROLLSON
Pedigree LINEAGE
People of much experience PASTMASTERS
Plant family that includes the hibiscus MALLOW
Price holder STICKER
Ready to go, you might say TESTATE
Semitic fertility goddess ASTARTE
Servant in a cause SOLDIER
Sherlock Holmes story not by Conan Doyle, e.g. PASTICHE
Showing the most wear and tear TATTIEST
Singapore lies just off its tip MALAYA
Skin soother CALAMINE
Special announcer WAITRESS
Splits with one's beloved ELOPES
Swamp flora REEDS
They offer rates for automobiles SPEEDOMETERS
Things that talk in sch.? PAS
Thinks the world of ADMIRES
Took the offensive ATTACKED
Topmost optic in a microscope EYELENS
Town that Wild Bill Hickok was marshal of ABILENE
Uses a key, perhaps DECODES
Veteran OLDTIMER
What boosters boost MORALE
Winner over the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI PACKERS
___ of Aquitaine, Henry II's wife ELEANOR