New York Times - Sep 1 2009

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Clues Answers
'10 ___ or less' (checkout sign) ITEMS
'Careful, now!' EASY
'Guarding ___' (1994 MacLaine movie) TESS
'M*A*S*H' staffers: Abbr. DRS
'You ___ be there' HADTO
'___ to please!' IAIM
'___ Was a Lady' (Ethel Merman tune) EADIE
49-Down war god TYR
A pet collar repels them FLEAS
Accompaniers of carrots in a Birds Eye package PEAS
Aids for the stumped HINTS
Baseball cap part VISOR
Belgrade natives SERBS
Bell-ringing cosmetics company AVON
Big Apple sch. NYU
Business presentation aid CHART
Cart-pulling beasts OXEN
Day before a big event EVE
Director's 'Stop!' CUT
Early software version BETA
El ___, Tex. PASO
Epitome of simplicity ABC
Equips for war ARMS
Fight ender, for short TKO
First, second, third or home BASE
Flip, as a coin TOSS
Food package datum NETWEIGHT
Forming clumps, like drying mud CAKY
Garr or Polo TERI
Geologic time ERA
Giant in pasta sauce RAGU
Give off, as charm EXUDE
Greets informally SAYSHITO
Gross, in kidspeak ICKY
Haw's partner HEM
Hot car's destination CHOPSHOP
How 18-, 24-, 47- and 56-Across may be defined BYHOOKORBYCROOK
In-your-face OVERT
Clues Answers
It may be worse than a bite BARK
Land SW of Uru. ARG
Like Odin or 9-Down NORSE
Moody's rates them BONDS
Musical work that's often not in English OPERA
Needed a massage, maybe ACHED
Noodges PESTS
Oceanic in scope VAST
Old woman's home, in a nursery rhyme SHOE
Pink elephant sighter SOT
Plant expert's field BOTANY
Precursor of reggae SKA
Pretentious and showy ARTSY
Rambo type HEMAN
Responds to a morning alarm AWAKES
Rice who wrote of vampires ANNE
Running account at a bar TAB
Rush week venue, for short FRAT
See 37-Across SHARPTURN
See 37-Across SHEPHERDSCANE
See 37-Across SWINGINGPUNCH
See 37-Across RACKETEER
Some football linemen: Abbr. LGS
Sows' mates BOARS
Spring sound BOING
Sprinter's assignment LANE
Start the pot ANTE
Sunni and Shia, for two SECTS
Tae ___ do KWON
Theater area LOGE
Tops of many Halloween getups WIGS
Tuna at a sushi bar AHI
TV host with a book club OPRAH
Uncooked RAW
Utah, Omaha and others, on D-Day CODENAMES
Winter hrs. in New Orleans CST
Woody Allen's trademark emotion ANGST
Workbench gripper VISE