New York Times - Jun 29 2010

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Clues Answers
'99 Red Balloons' singer, 1984 NENA
'Back in the ___' USSR
'Bird on ___' (1990 film) AWIRE
'Hogan's Heroes' colonel KLINK
'La Belle et la ___' (French fairy tale) BETE
'The dog ate my homework,' maybe LIE
'What should I ___?' DONOW
'Who cares?' SOWHAT
'You love,' to Livy AMAS
1970 #1 hit whose title follows the lyric 'Speaking words of wisdom ...' LETITBE
AARP or the National Rifle Association LOBBY
Actress Parker POSEY
Actress Sedgwick of 'The Closer' KYRA
Alarm bell TOCSIN
Asian cat SNOWLEOPARD
At ___ for words ALOSS
Bellowed YELLED
Blue Jays, on a scoreboard TOR
Bob ___, 2008 Libertarian candidate for president BARR
Building usually without a 13th floor HOTEL
Cause of a beach closure, maybe ECOLI
Choir support RISER
Class after trig CALC
Cornerstone abbr. ESTD
Decorative pond fish KOI
Equus quagga ZEBRA
Euro forerunner ECU
Flight training equipment SIMULATOR
Form of many a diploma SCROLL
Former Mississippi senator Trent LOTT
French city in 1944 fighting METZ
Heroine of Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' LEONORA
Intact WHOLE
Island near Java TIMOR
Kind of code PENAL
Lafayette's state? ETAT
Like some exercises NAVAL
Like some vision BINOCULAR
Like the review 'Hated it,' e.g. TERSE
Clues Answers
Made less intense DAMPENED
Makeshift seat at a rodeo BALE
Melee BRAWL
Minus LESS
Move stealthily PROWL
Net CLEAR
Nutritional abbr. RDA
Ogle STAREAT
On ATOP
One of the 2008 Olympic mascots PANDA
Penn, for one: Abbr. STA
Penury NEED
Poetic foot IAMB
Poetic Muse ERATO
Polecat SKUNK
Porky Pig, e.g. TOON
Potential enamorada SENORITA
Prominent features of Alfred E. Neuman EARS
Santa ___ winds ANA
See 39-Across WHITE
See 39-Across AND
Shamu, for one KILLERWHALE
Sign to be interpreted OMEN
Singer India.___ ARIE
Slo-o-ow leak DRIP
Smidge DAB
Some track-and-field training SPRINTS
Super star NOVA
Tart fruits SLOES
Thing ITEM
Thurman of 'Pulp Fiction' UMA
Track units LAPS
Ultimatum ender ELSE
Wanes EBBS
Wilson of 'Wedding Crashers' OWEN
With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle BLACK
Without: Fr. SANS
___ cheese NACHO
___ tai (drink) MAI