New York Times - Aug 30 2009

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Clues Answers
'Excalibur' star Williamson NICOL
'Is ___?' ITI
'It's Time to Cry' singer, 1959 ANKA
'___ by me' FINE
'___ off?' ONOR
-IRC-MS-ANCES TAKEOUTOFCONTEXT
1,111 MCXI
1991 Tony winner Daisy EAGAN
8 1/2-pound statue OSCAR
A.C.C. athlete TERP
Agreement abroad OUI
All's opposite NONE
Alternative to satellite AMFM
ANTI--VERNMENT UN--ST BLOODLESSREVOLUTION
AR--CL- THEMISSINGLINK
Architectural pier ANTA
Atlas abbr. MTN
Be a couch potato LAZE
Bob in the Olympics SLED
Box lightly SPAR
Breeze SNAP
British weights TONNES
Brut rival AFTA
Bygone flier TWA
Bygone flier SST
Caps LIDS
Chou En-___ LAI
Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end AVIS
Connection NEXUS
Covered walkway STOA
Cry after the rap of a hammer SOLD
Cry at a circus OOH
Currency union since 1999 EUROAREA
Dangerous buildup in a mine METHANE
Dependent on chance ALEATORY
Dog breeders' org. AKC
Effluvium ODOR
Exam format ORAL
Favorite baby sitter, maybe NANA
FI-TH WH--L SPARENOEXPENSE
Four-sided figure RHOMB
French river craft BATEAU
Fresh SASSY
Fresh PERT
Gallery event ARTSALE
Halloween purchase EGGS
Hawaiian massage LOMILOMI
Heart lines: Abbr. EKGS
Home of the N.H.L.'s Thrashers ATLANTA
Hook up MEET
Hymn whose second line is 'Solvet saeclum in favilla' DIESIRAE
Icy GELID
Isn't inert REACTS
It typically has lots of horses ENGINE
It's music to a musician's ears ENCORE
Kind of acid LACTIC
Kind of screen IMAX
Kind of shell TACO
Knotted up GNARLED
Kung ___ chicken PAO
Less bananas SANER
Like 11-Down: Abbr. DEM
Like some verbs: Abbr. INTR
Like the face after a good bawl TEARSTAINED
Like the Vietnamese language TONAL
Low clouds STRATI
Mackerellike fish BONITO
Maker of Fosamax and Zocor MERCK
Male delivery SON
Man's name that's an anagram of 108-Down ARLO
Clues Answers
Met, for one NLER
Mideast tinderbox GAZA
Modern home of the biblical Elam IRAN
Moscow's home: Abbr. IDA
Music in Mysore RAGA
Mystery writers' awards AGATHAS
N.J. or Pa. route TPKE
National monument site since 1965 ELLISISLAND
NBC inits. since 1975 SNL
Ninny ASS
On the ocean ASEA
P---ARY CARE PHY-ICIANS DOCTORSWITHOUTBORDERS
Pay stub? OLA
PBS benefactor NEA
Person with few possessions MONK
Piece of a newspaper? OPED
Pirated STOLEN
Preface online IMHO
Pres. when the C.I.A. was created HST
Principal location?: Abbr. SCH
Psyche's love EROS
Pure MERE
Regarding INRE
Scuba diver's worry LEAK
Senator Hatch ORRIN
Send another way REROUTE
Shelter org. ASPCA
Ship that sailed 'the ocean blue' NINA
Shoe brand reputedly named after a Scottish golfer THOMMCAN
Shore flier TERN
Similar AKIN
Singer Lambert, runner-up on the 2009 'American Idol' ADAM
Size unit of an English soda bottle LITRE
Skis, boots, masks, etc. GEAR
Slangy commercial suffix ORAMA
Some E.R. cases ODS
Some receivers ENDS
Something to be threaded MAZE
Soon INASEC
Sources of fleece ALPACAS
Spanish bear OSO
Stick in one's craw RANKLE
Stranded messenger? RNA
Stun DAZE
Sub ___ (confidentially) ROSA
Take out ERASE
Talk to shrilly YAPAT
Tel ___ AVIV
The Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference OSU
They may be cloned PCS
Tic-tac-toe loser XOO
Tiny tunneler ANT
Tips, e.g. ADVICE
Together INALL
Toledo-to-Columbus dir. SSE
TV exec's concern SKED
TV screen meas. DIAG
Underground network ROOTS
Urge GOAD
Us YOUANDME
Very OHSO
W--THL-SS R-AD-TER LEMONDROPCOOKIES
W.W. II arena ETO
Wharton deg. MBA
WHAT A -ANDA DOES IN -EIS-RELY FA-HION EATSSHOOTSANDLEAVES
Where some people get tips: Abbr. OTB
Wii alternative XBOX
Word often following yes or no SIR
___ Chandler, longtime publisher of the Los Angeles Times OTIS
___-Ball SKEE