New York Times - Aug 18 2013

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Clues Answers
'90s commerce pact NAFTA
'Fanny' author Jong ERICA
'Kinsey' star, 2004 NEESON
'Malice N Wonderland' rapper Snoop ___ DOGG
'Michael Clayton' director Tony GILROY
'There ___ there there' ISNO
'Tootsie' Oscar nominee TERIGARR
'What ___ thou?' SAYST
'You can talk to me privately' IMALONE
'You Gotta Be' singer, 1994 DESREE
'You want a piece ___?' OFME
'___ yourself' BRACE
A Bobbsey twin NAN
A swimmer might rightly be scared to see one FIN
A, e.g ALER
Act as a go-between LIAISE
Act like a rat, say GNAW
Air-conditioning on a hot day, maybe RELIEF
Airport info: abbr ARR
Allen of 'Candid Camera' FUNT
Amish relative MENNONITE
Army fig. who knows the drill? SGT
Bank statement abbr INT
Before, in sonnets ERE
Being, to Claudius ESSE
Big-screen format IMAX
Bottom of a contract DOTTED
Brink VERGE
Called on the carpet CHASTISED
Carol starter ADESTE
Certain car gears OVERDRIVES
Change COINS
Checkbook record STUB
Chef Boyardee offering RAVIOLI
China's Chiang ___-shek KAI
Comment often followed by 'So sue me' ILIED
Convention closer? EER
Counters ABACI
Court stripe FREETHROW
Cpl., for one NCO
Cry of victory IDIDIT
Designer Geoffrey BEENE
Divider in a musical score BAR
Dogpatch creator CAPP
Draw a mark through for cancellation RED
Driver's ID: Abbr LIC
Driving aid TEE
Feature of St. Basil's Cathedral ONIONDOME
Figures in Astounding Stories, for short ETS
Fire extinguisher DOUSER
Fleur-de-___ LIS
French children's song ALOUETTE
Galactic ___ ('Star Wars' setting) SENATE
Gave up CEDED
Gen. Robert ___ ELEE
Go to sleep RETIRE
Gray areas, maybe ... or a hint to 12 incomplete answers in this puzzle BORDERLINES
Ground cover SOD
Half-___ (coffee request) CAF
Hang-out locale? CLOTHES
Head of une école? TETE
Hide ENSCONCE
Hobby activity SIDE
Honor at graduation? LAUDE
How picnic drinks may be packed INICE
Hybridized INTERBRED
Island group in the Bahamas BIMINI
It may come down in a storm TELEPHONE
Jumping-off point PRECIPICE
Clues Answers
Just going through the motions, after 'on' AUTOPILOT
Kind of lab METH
Last chance to strike out? FINALEDIT
Less certain IFFIER
Like choruses REPEATED
Like some printing FOURCOLOR
Listening, with 'in' TUNED
Little sucker? EDDY
Locale for finished works that haven't yet appeared PIPE
Loop transports ELS
Main hood in 'Little Caesar,' 1931 RICO
Masonry containers HODS
Means of one-to-one communication DEDICATED
Mixture GRABBAG
Monotonous routine GRIND
Montréal street RUE
More curmudgeonly CRUSTIER
Movie theater sight TICKET
N. Amer./Afr. separator ATL
New Guinea port from which Amelia Earhart left on her last flight LAE
Not finished UNENDED
Nothing doing? IDLE
Office PC hookup LAN
Old TV's Cousin ___ ITT
Old-fashioned street conveyance HORSECAR
Old-time announcer Johnny OLSON
Olympic racers BOBSLEDS
Optimistic ROSY
Org. in 'Monk' SFPD
Originates RISES
Part of a nativity scene MANGER
Pope Francis' birthplace ARGENTINA
Posting, say NOTICE
Primitive drive LIBIDO
Prong TINE
Province of Saudi Arabia ASIR
Quarterback protectors OFFENSIVE
Rants and raves CARRIESON
Ready-___ TOEAT
Real pain in the butt? SADDLESORE
Represent as a saint, say ENHALO
Sea eagle ERNE
See 38-Down PERIMETER
Set (against) PIT
Shavings, maybe HAIRS
Sister of literature BRONTE
Skater Midori ITO
Ski-___ DOO
Some fridges GES
Suffix with morph- EME
Super ___ (old video game console) NES
Superfund org EPA
Supermarket time-saver EXPRESS
Supported, as a ballot measure VOTEDFOR
Susan who wrote 'The Volcano Lover' SONTAG
Texting while driving, e.g NONO
Tour de France season ETE
Trains RAIL
Two-Face and the Riddler, to Batman FOES
Type units PICAS
Urges DESIRES
Virginie, e.g ETAT
Visit anew RESEE
Whitewashed, with 'over' PAPERED
With 56-Down, where to find this puzzle's 12 theme answers AROUNDTHE
Without face value, as stock NOPAR
Wrote a couple of letters? INITIALED
___ light COORS
___ polymerase RNA