New York Times - Mar 2 2010

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Clues Answers
'Casablanca' heroine ILSA
'Easy!' NOPROB
'Fly the friendly skies' co. UAL
'I beg to differ!' NOTSO
'It's News to Me' columnist Herb CAEN
'This can't be!' OHNO
'This ___ life!' ISTHE
*'... out like a ___' LAMB
*'In like a ___ ...' LION
*Doofus BOOB
*Dud BOMB
*Godsend BOON
*Jim's gift in 'The Gift of the Magi' COMB
*Kook LOON
*Provide for free COMP
*Sleepaway, e.g. CAMP
*Tiffany treasure LAMP
Absorbed the loss ATEIT
Actor Williams of 'Happy Days' ANSON
Andean animal LLAMA
Author Silverstein SHEL
Betraying no emotion STOIC
Bullets AMMO
Capital once called Christiania OSLO
Cathedral areas NAVES
Choreographer Twyla THARP
Della's gift in 'The Gift of the Magi' FOB
Draws out PROLONGS
Dud FLOP
Gala night duds TAILS
General on a Chinese menu TSO
Go from ___ worse BADTO
Goat-men in a Rubens painting FAUNS
Going places? LOOS
Govt. ID SSN
Grace period? AMEN
Great shakes? SEISM
Greek gathering spot STOA
Gremlins and Hornets of old autodom AMCS
Clues Answers
Handy man? GOTOGUY
Ingredient in some potato chips OLEAN
James of 'Thief' CAAN
Lone Star State sch. UTEP
Look over PERUSE
Looped handle, in archaeology ANSA
Lummoxes LOUTS
Married woman, in Madrid SENORA
Minimal amount LEAST
Mint green? USDOLLARS
Name-dropper, perhaps SNOB
Nuts BATTY
Other: Sp. OTRO
Pale wood ASH
Partnerless, as at a party STAG
Parts of una década ANOS
Period described by the clues and answers to 1- and 72-Across (which are the start and end of a word ladder formed by the answers to the 10 asterisked clues) THEMONTHOFMARCH
Priest's robe ALB
Provider of a dead giveaway? TESTAMENT
Pub crawler SOT
São Paulo's land, to natives BRASIL
Say ___ (reject) NOTO
Sea eagles ERNES
Second afterthought in a letter: Abbr. PPS
Sign abbr. meaning 'founded in' ESTAB
Songwriter Sammy CAHN
Steering committee? HELMSMEN
Sunday best, e.g. SUIT
Sweet, gooey sandwiches MOONPIES
The Bruins of the N.C.A.A. UCLA
Throat dangler UVULA
Title heroine of a Strauss opera ARABELLA
Trolley warning TOOT
Voice below soprano ALTO
Welles of film ORSON
Wood finish SHELLAC
___ Brasi, enforcer in 'The Godfather' LUCA
___ Na Na SHA
___ occasion (never) ONNO