New York Times - Nov 8 2008

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Clues Answers
'No, really' DONTLAUGH
'Politics ___ beanbag' (Mr. Dooley maxim) AINT
'This Gun for Hire' star ALANLADD
'___ Hombres,' first Top 40 album by ZZ Top TRES
'___ Ky Yay' (1998 country song) YIPPY
1942 Eleanor Powell musical set at sea SHIPAHOY
Base off the coast of Brest for France's nuclear submarines ILELONGUE
Beverages similar to kvass RYEBEERS
Bliss RHAPSODY
Bumps on trunks KNARS
Buoy ELATE
Chill RELAX
Christopher Marlowe play EDWARDII
Come up short OWE
Cry of relief ATLAST
D.D.E. zone ETO
Fastener that's actually easy to pick up and carry? LUGNUT
Feeding tube? CLOSEDCIRCUITTV
Get into DIG
Gimcrack TRIFLE
Gym target FLAB
Hoot GAS
Innovation of the Paleolithic period AXE
Israeli city whose citadel was built by the Ottomans ACRE
Jaculates HURLS
Laser paper option MATTE
Like a cob MALE
Like computer programmers TECHSAVVY
Listings abbr. TBA
Many a Carl Czerny composition ETUDE
Meet the requirements PASS
Meshed person IRANI
Missouri senator Claire MCCASKILL
Nickname in early jazz piano FATHA
Clues Answers
Not your or my, say THEIR
Nowhere to be found, for short MIA
Ostrava tongue CZECH
PC key ALT
Pliny possessive MEA
Plum, for one DRUPE
Predecessor of Gregory XI URBANV
Presenter of bills ATM
Relative of a chuckwalla IGUANA
Sampling problem BIAS
Saw in the dark? DREAMTOF
School dept. ATH
See 21-Down SNUG
Side dish popular at New Year's PEASALAD
Significantly diminish, as profits SLICEINTO
Snow-___ (winter vehicle brand) TRAC
Soap, for example DRAMA
Spring break? OASIS
Stalwart RELIABLE
Standards, e.g. OLDMUSIC
Standout performances? SOLI
Sticks you need to break POOLCUES
Stretch in the salt mines HARDDAY
Tax time MIDAPRIL
Tearjerkers SADTALES
The Mountain Hawks of the Patriot League LEHIGH
They're waved in competition EPEES
Tree that yields a chewable resin MASTIC
Used a thurible on CENSED
Wagner's father-in-law LISZT
Wake AFTERMATH
With 50-Down, like the children in 'A Visit From St. Nicholas' ALL
With brass SAUCILY
Writing of Publius FEDERALISTPAPER