New York Times - Aug 28 2012

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Clues Answers
'Be that as it may ...' ANYHOW
'Olly olly ___ free' OXEN
'Phooey!' NERTS
'Unbelievable!' WOW
'Understand?' SEE
1998 BP acquisition AMOCO
An apple for Apple Inc., e.g LOGO
Asian nurse AMAH
Baseball's Mel OTT
Big arcade name ATARI
Blink ___ eye OFAN
Breaking of a mirror, some fear OMEN
Buckeyes, for short OSU
Buckled GAVE
Came down with GOT
Can AXE
Chunk of land TRACT
Church niche APSE
Classic actor ___ G. Carroll LEO
Cleaning agents LYES
Complete collections SETS
Corp. hiree MBA
Crew member's handful OAR
Currency unit whose symbol is '$' PESO
Dallas cager, for short MAV
Discontinued Swedish car SAAB
Doesn't ever throw anything away HOARDS
False start? PSEUDO
Finished ATANEND
From ___ Z ATO
Give an indication (that) LETON
Golfer Sam SNEAD
Hamiltons TENS
Hit hard SMITE
Ishmael's captain AHAB
Kama ___ SUTRA
Lea MEADOW
Letter-shaped fastener TNUT
Light units LUMENS
Clues Answers
Magazine whose name means 'she' ELLE
Many a young summer employee INTERN
MGM founder LOEW
Most confident SUREST
Mother of Helen, in myth LEDA
Movie-rating org MPAA
Musical copyright org ASCAP
Newspaperman Adolph OCHS
Not final, in law NISI
Not personally engaged ALOOF
Old philosophers' place STOA
Olympics competitor ATHLETE
Opposite of a Bing Crosby hit? PENNIESFROMHELL
Opposite of a Led Zeppelin number? STAIRWAYTOHELL
Opposite of a Meat Loaf tune? BATOUTOFHEAVEN
Opposite of an AC/DC song? HIGHWAYTOHEAVEN
Outdated tape format VHS
Pants part that gets a lot of wear SEAT
Path of a pop-up ARC
Plea at sea SOS
Pole, for one SLAV
Prefix with classical NEO
Revolt UPRISE
Scrooge-like cries BAHS
Sellout signs SROS
Slur over ELIDE
Stave off AVERT
Subway system METRO
Summer hrs DST
Traditional location of one of this puzzle's theme words BELOW
Traditional location of one of this puzzle's theme words ABOVE
Untouchable leader NESS
Utopias EDENS
V.I.P. in a robe EMIR
Virginia's Washington and ___ University LEE
___ Lingus AER
___ metabolism BASAL
___ Shuffle IPOD
___-Magnon CRO