New York Times - Dec 21 2010

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Clues Answers
'... ___ saw Elba' EREI
'I'd hate to break up ___' ASET
'Lola' band THEKINKS
'Six Feet Under' network HBO
'The Wild Duck' playwright Henrik IBSEN
'Waiting for Lefty' playwright ODETS
'You're right' THISISTRUE
Allotment of one, usually, for an airline passenger CARRYONBAG
Awaiting scheduling, initially TBA
Belief suffix ISM
Bilko or Friday: Abbr. SGT
Broadcast AIR
Burst into flower BLOOM
Catchall abbr. ETC
Chinese restaurant request NOMSG
Cleaned up after a spill? BLOTTEDWATER
Composition of Jack Haley's Oz character TIN
Cosine's reciprocal SECANT
Cut jaggedly LACERATE
Defamation in the Garden of Eden? ADAMSLANDER
Do a double-take, e.g. REACT
Dolts ASSES
F.A.A. supervisors? PLANEBOARDS
Fallback strategy PLANB
Fertility clinic cells OVA
Font option: Abbr. ITAL
Free from anxiety ATEASE
Gaucho's plain LLANO
Gershwin's 'The ___ Love' MANI
Give a thumbs-down NIX
God, to Muslims ALLAH
Grades K-12 ELHI
Hardly macho WIMPY
Heavenly body ORB
Holiday smokes? CHRISTMASCLAROS
It's walked on pirate ships PLANK
Jerome who composed 'Ol' Man River' KERN
Keatsian or Pindaric ODIC
Clues Answers
Least amiable ICIEST
Lecher's look LEER
Made a choice OPTED
Maggot or grub LARVA
Make improvements to EMEND
Martinique, par exemple ILE
Mideast potentate: Var. AMIR
Nat Geo, for one MAG
Object to online commentary? MINDBLOGGING
Once, old-style ERST
One calling the shots BOSS
One of four on a Rolls TYRE
Out of alignment BENT
Paternity suit evidence DNA
Pet advocacy org. SPCA
Pink-slip CAN
Pink-slip IDLE
Playing pieces in Rummikub TILES
Potter's potions professor SNAPE
Prescription measure DOSAGE
Shepard in space ALAN
Shut down END
Smallish batteries AAS
Snap course EASYA
Start of a countdown TEN
Start of grace, maybe OLORD
Strong desires YENS
Subject of a cigarette rating TAR
Tickle AMUSE
Tilter's weapon LANCE
Totally absorbed RAPT
Totally lost ATSEA
Turned chicken RAN
Vogue competitor ELLE
Want badly, with 'for' YEARN
Wield, as power EXERT
Windblown soil LOESS
___-Tass news agency ITAR