New York Times - Jan 15 2012

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Clues Answers
'By ___!' GEORGE
'Cagney & Lacey' org NYPD
'I can't get excited about it' MEH
'Lemme ___!' ATEM
'Shut your trap!' ZIPIT
'Star Trek' weapon PHASER
'That is quite clear' SOISEE
'The Conqueror,' e.g EPITHET
'True Colors' singer, 1986 LAUPER
'___ it' ('Understood') IGET
2000 title role for Richard Gere DRT
72-Across and others: Abbr RTES
:D, e.g EMOTICON
Actress Tyler LIV
After-dinner choices SORBETS
Angry Birds, e.g FAD
Artificial plot device DEUSEXMACHINA
Attacked TOREAT
Austrian physician who lent his name to an English word ending in '-ize' MESMER
Basis of a lawsuit TORT
Battle wear FATIGUES
Battle-ax OLDBAG
Bazooka, e.g ARM
Big Apple team BRONXBOMBERS
Big name in frozen desserts EDY
Bit of investors' news, for short IPO
Bond WED
Brit's teapot cover COSY
Bud MATE
California beach town with a racetrack DELMAR
Certain skiing competition NORDIC
Cheating BREAKINGTHERULES
Chewed stimulant COCA
Cicely or tarragon HERB
Climax ACME
Directional suffix ERN
DNA testing might reopen one COLDCASE
Doc's reading EEG
Doll PET
DOLLS HONEYS
Dream setting CASTLEINSPAIN
Esteem ADMIRE
Fate KARMA
Feel (for) GROPE
Fictional Simon LEGREE
Former U.N. secretary general Kofi ___ ANNAN
Fourth letter after 49-Down PSI
Fourth letter before 21-Down TAU
Get ready to drive TEEUP
Gravitate TEND
Grp. that coordinates E.T.A. and E.T.D ATC
Heroic deeds GESTS
Humble response to praise ITRY
Hunted PREY
I, to Tiberius EGO
In the event that LEST
It's lowered to hear music PHONOGRAPHNEEDLE
It's north of the South MASONDIXONLINE
Kaput ENDED
Kindergarten stuff ABCS
Lady MADAM
Laugh syllable HAR
Leaf pores STOMATA
Letter-shaped girder HBEAM
Letters on some N.Y.C. luggage LGA
Light reflection ratio ALBEDO
Like some boards DRYERASE
LL Cool J's 'Going Back to ___' CALI
Major artery through San Antonio ITEN
Manipulate to one's advantage FINAGLE
Clues Answers
Many wonks DWEEBS
Martial arts master SENSEI
Mine transport TRAMCAR
NASCAR Hall of Fame architect PEI
Nest maker HEN
North Korean leader or his father KIM
Not cheating FAIR
Nudists ADAMITES
One of the Everly Brothers PHIL
One with a neck and a lip VASE
Org. that may assess violence levels MPAA
Organ repair sites, briefly ORS
Ousted from the ring, for short TKOD
Overseas Mr SRI
Part of a pinochle round MELD
Part of a security system SENSOR
PBS flagship station WNET
PC key ALT
Person who's a zero? OPERATOR
Pharmacies fill them, in brief RXS
Places for rings, maybe SAFES
Plant tissue XYLEM
Player of golf GARY
Polished URBANE
Portuguese king REI
Precious girl's name? OPAL
Prison unit WARD
Propose NOMINATE
Put away ICE
QB Tebow TIM
R.S.V.P. facilitator: Abbr SAE
Roam GAD
Rolling ___ (rich) INIT
Scat syllable DOO
Scot's 'not' NAE
Security Council veto NON
Shade of a swan's bill in a Keats poem EBON
Shows that can be racier than their network counterparts CABLESITCOMS
Side (with) AGREE
Signs INKS
Slip-on LOAFER
Some bills have them EARMARKS
Some online communications, for short IMS
Stock page listings: Abbr COS
Struck XED
Subject of a Vatican investigation MIRACLE
Taft's partner in a 1947 act HARTLEY
Tart drink LIMEADE
Tediously didactic PREACHY
The euro replaced it LIRA
The Mediterranean has a warm one CLIME
Thérèse de Lisieux, for one SAINTE
Tolkien creature ENT
Track ___ MEET
Troop group PHALANX
TV station, e.g AIRER
TV tavern keeper MOE
Uses a 13-Across on ZAPS
Vicious NASTY
Villa, e.g ABODE
Weather comment represented visually by this puzzle's circled letters ITSRAININGCATSANDDOGS
What will the French think of next? IDEE
White Rabbit's cry IMLATE
x, y and z AXES
Yokel GOOBER
You probably raise your arm for this ANTIPERSPIRANT
___ B. Driftwood ('A Night at the Opera' role) OTIS
___ Hall (site on many a campus) ALUMNI
___ kwon do TAE
___ Tin Tin RIN