The Washington Post - Aug 7 2011

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Clues Answers
'Ain't gonna happen' NOCANDO
'Color me confused' IDONTGETIT
'In my opinion ...' IDSAY
'Picture ___' ('Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' song) THIS
'Waiting for the Robert ___' ELEE
'Way of the sword' KENDO
'Way to handle the muleta!' OLE
1977 hit for Andrew Gold LONELYBOY
Anklebone TALUS
Center of Venice RIALTO
Charges FEES
Checked cloth pattern TATTERSALL
Cold and windy ARCTIC
Couple DUO
Drivetrain part AXLE
Effort to influence SUASION
Eyjafjallajökull output EJECTA
Fiefdom relative BARONY
Flat, e.g. SHOE
Four-time Pro Bowl tight end Crumpler ALGE
Friend from way back OLDPAL
Game in which you sometimes eat fruit PACMAN
Gave in ASSENTED
Gerhard's successor as German chancellor ANGELA
Haul TRUCK
Herringlike fish SHAD
Holds court, e.g. SITS
Hullabaloo DIN
Implies INSINUATES
Inner distress ANGST
It's its own reciprocal ONE
Japanese aborigine AINU
Jar JOSTLE
Jazz Age heroine portrayed on Broadway by Carol Channing LORELEILEE
Clues Answers
Julia's 'Ocean's Eleven' role TESS
Kingston address MON
Lackluster BLAH
Least massive dwarf planet CERES
North Carolina's motto starter ESSE
Not quite straight up, briefly NNE
Numbered hwys. RTES
Odd QUIZZICAL
One rendering of the Tetragrammaton JEHOVAH
Onetime Versailles résident ROI
Opposite of renown ANONYMITY
Persian religion founder ZOROASTER
Plymouth Colony military leader STANDISH
Put together with artistry CRAFT
Relative of shingles CHICKENPOX
Scale with five sharps: Abbr. BMAJ
Scientific calculator button HYP
Secure CLINCH
Smarmy OILY
Sounding right, in a way ONKEY
Space-saving abbr. ETAL
Start of some entertainment ACTI
Strip DIVEST
Strong INTENSE
Summer romances, maybe HARLEQUINS
Tie-ups? ANCHORAGES
Totes merchandise RAINGEAR
War of 1812 battle site near Niagara Falls LUNDYSLANE
Warmer, perhaps COZIER
Wax bananas? RANT
Without expression TONELESS
Yon partner HITHER
Yutz YOYO
___ Minor URSA