New York Times - Mar 1 2009

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Clues Answers
'M*A*S*H' private Straminsky IGOR
'No shirt, no shoes, no service,' e.g. RULE
'Royal Wedding' star, 1951 ASTAIRE
'Take this!' HERE
'Take ___ from me' ATIP
'Three Places in New England' composer IVES
'___ Creator Spiritus' (Latin hymn) VENI
*Good and bad for a jungle guide TRUSTYMACHETE
*Good and bad for a marketer CLOSINGASALE
*Good and bad for a motorist WRECKLESSDRIVING
*Good and bad for a spy COVERTOPERATIONS
*Good and bad for a vampire BLACKOFNIGHT
*Good and bad for a West Point cadet SHAVINGABEARD
105-Down output ARTE
1970s dance craze HUSTLE
2005 Emmy winner for 'Boston Legal' SHATNER
All nerves EDGY
Any entry on a Dear Santa list WANT
Arachne had one LOOM
Aussie lass SHEILA
Beginning ONSET
Book club gathering, e.g. KLATSCH
Boston's ___ Ave. MASS
Boulevard, e.g. ARTERY
Buck CLAM
Bullpen stats ERAS
Byes TATAS
Bygone French coins ECUS
Call letters? RSVP
Campaign staple SLOGAN
Car with a griffin in its logo SAAB
Cartoonist who took on Boss Tweed NAST
Cause of a stain, perhaps SPILLING
Certain jazz musicians SAXISTS
Chihuahua cat GATO
Chorus member in an ancient Greek play SATYR
Civil War side NORTH
Corresponds AGREES
Criminal's worry WIRETAP
Crop TRIM
Cry before screeching brakes, maybe TAXI
Cut down HEWED
Deep mysteries ARCANA
Directional word YON
Dodge sports car VIPER
Domineering BOSSY
Douglas's 'Spartacus' co-star OLIVIER
Dumbhead ASS
End run, e.g. MANEUVER
Evoking goose bumps, say EERIE
Exaggeratedly masculine BUTCHY
Feverish conditions AGUES
Forty-niner, e.g. PANNER
Free LIBERATE
Frozen pizza brand CELESTE
Getup ATTIRE
Go for LIKE
Gomez's sweetie TISH
Ham and ___ (average Joe) EGGER
Home of 'Christina's World,' for short MOMA
Hosp. features ERS
Hot dog add-on KRAUT
In a cache STASHED
Insect repellent DEET
Involve ENTAIL
It may be cocked EAR
It's below the majors AAA
Justice Alito SAMUEL
Kind of drug that inhibits bacteria SULFA
Kind of reporter CUB
Clues Answers
Layabouts IDLERS
Legal hearing OYER
Legendary bird ROC
Local language, say IDIOM
Machinated SCHEMED
Major ecological community BIOME
Makes sport of JAPES
Mao, e.g. RED
Mastermind game piece PEG
Measuring tape user TAILOR
Menace along the Congo TSETSE
Meridian ACME
Minnesota county or its seat WINONA
Motorola products PAGERS
Mountain ___ LAUREL
MS. readers EDS
Napoleonic army weapon EPEE
No longer in the closet OUTED
Not a teetotaler USER
Note taker STENO
On ATOP
One favoring a strong, centralized government STATIST
Painter Haring KEITH
Painter of 'The Naked Maja' GOYA
Part of a frame SILL
Parties REVELS
Place with 'Now Serving' numbers DELI
Places LOCI
Places where free spirits aren't found? BARS
Predecessor of George I ANNE
Preferably RATHER
Quarter-inch of snow, e.g. COATING
Relatively close NEARISH
Relaxation LOLLING
Remove DOFF
Remove from a spindle UNREEL
Ring of color AREOLE
River through Interlaken AARE
Ruckus STIR
Runner's place SLED
Santa ___, Calif. ROSA
Sausage part CASING
Sealed SHUT
Singer Waits TOM
Some excuses LIES
Some operators in Boolean logic ANDS
Some skirts ALINES
Sound choice? STEREO
Soup starters BROTHS
Sprees JAGS
Sprinkles, maybe WATERS
Stole, for example NECKLET
Sweet-talk COAX
Tab, at times INSERT
Test track obstacle CONE
Theater features AISLES
Third of July? ELL
Today's thirtysomething, for short XER
Took to task REBUKED
Train stop between Delhi and Mumbai AGRA
Unoriginal work RETREAD
Us outside the U.S. NOUS
Verve ELAN
What's hot THERAGE
Where lieutenants are trained: Abbr. OCS
Without words TACITLY
Worships ADULATES
Yield CEDE
You name it NOUN
___ League ARAB