New York Times - Dec 11 2011

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Clues Answers
#2 or #3 ALSORAN
'Get it?' CAPEESH
'Lohengrin' soprano ELSA
'Open ___' WIDE
'The Clan of the Cave Bear' author AUEL
'The Origin of Species' concept NSELECTION
'___ Andromeda' (British sci-fi series) AFOR
10th-century pope LEOVII
1994 Schwarzenegger film TRUELIES
2005 biography subtitled 'The Making of a Terrorist' OSAMA
Aesthete ARTLOVER
Aircraft carrier FTOP
Al who sought the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination STON
Ancient volume CODEX
Apt to change LABILE
Backups for backups CTEAM
Body of water in a volcanic crater, for one NLAKE
Bone: Prefix OSSE
Bottom dealers, perhaps CARDSS
Brass HORNS
Burns, e.g SCOT
Burrowing rodents VOLES
Cactuslike plant of the Southwest OCOTILLO
Cavalry member LANCER
Cockamamie ASININE
Cousins of giraffes OKAPIS
Cruel Ugandan AMIN
Dangers for children and klutzes SOBJECTS
Dastardly laughs HEHS
Director Kazan ELIA
Doorway jamb ALETTE
Draft inits SSS
Economic woe HYPERINFION
Extraordinary and unexplainable PRETERN
F major has just one FTEDNOTE
Fix, as a fairway RESOD
Fixed at an acute angle SSET
Fixed price FFEE
Former Connecticut governor Jodi RELL
Former surgeon general C. ___ Koop EVERETT
Former transportation regulation agcy ICC
Fox hunter's cry HALLO
Frequent answer to 'When?' SOON
Give a lift BUOY
Glacial ridge ESKER
Goddess with a headdress depicting a throne ISIS
Group that doesn't believe in revolution? FEARTHSOCIETY
Guide STEER
Gusto VERVE
Hockey team, say SEXTET
Home in the woods DEN
Immigrant's opposite NBORNCITIZEN
Inscribed marker STELE
Instrument played in the mouth JEWS
It's found near the toe of a boot SICILY
Jackson and Reno JANETS
Judge in Judges GIDEON
Just recently OFE
Key ISLE
Kid minders NANNIES
Killed, as a test ACED
Kin: Abbr RELS
Kind of kick SCISSOR
Knives, forks and spoons FWARE
Knoll RISE
Lens solution brand RENU
Letter after pee KUE
Lhasa ___ APSO
Like some cigarettes NOTAR
Like trenchant wit RAZORS
Clues Answers
Links chain IHOP
Little shavers at school? PENCILSENERS
Mario's dinosaur sidekick YOSHI
Maternally related ENATE
Mercedes sedan ECLASS
Modernize the plant RETOOL
More pretentious ARTIER
Neighbor of a Turkmen IRANI
Newspaper units: Abbr COLS
Nobelist Bohr NIELS
Northern sympathizer UNIONIST
Ones pictured in corp. reports CEOS
Organic compound ENOL
Organic food label ALLN
Orly bird? AVION
Paper tray size: Abbr LTR
Part of a freight train FCAR
Pass (out) ZONK
Pavement caution SLO
Piped fuel NGAS
Planned ENGINEERED
Play sentinel KEEPASLOOKOUT
Potpourri HASH
Potpourri OLIO
Quick inning enders, for short DPS
Radiohead frontman Yorke THOM
Reassure that one's joking, in a way WINKAT
Remark after an awkward silence ORNOT
Render TEARER
Repeated film title role for Jim Varney ERNEST
Retired boomers SSTS
Rikki-Tikki-___ TAVI
Robert of 'The Sopranos' ILER
Samoan port APIA
Seasoned hand OLDPRO
Set-___ TOS
Shakespearean nobleman TIMON
Shapes studied by Dr. Watson and his partner HELICES
Short operatic solos ARIETTAS
Site for techies CNET
Slander or libel TORT
Some punches ADES
Something a dome lacks EAVE
Southern university whose campus is a botanical garden ELON
Spanish conquistador who searched for the Seven Cities of Gold CORONADO
Spheres REALMS
Sycophant FTERER
Table scraps ORTS
Taking too much ODING
There's no foul play when one passes by these NCAUSES
They leave trails JETS
Tightens (up) TENSES
Tiny criticisms NITS
Trademarked marker SIE
Tucker out TIRE
Vaquero's neckwear BOLO
Veg-O-Matic company RONCO
Vocal skeptic NAYSAYER
Walled city of Spain AVILA
Water hazard? ORCA
Way to refuse FLY
Welsh, e.g CELTS
Where a plant or animal thrives NHABITAT
Wipes out ERASES
Wispy clouds CIRRI
Wrinkly-faced dogs SEIS
Writer Grey ZANE
___ a secret INON
___ moment's notice ONA
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