New York Times - Aug 4 2014

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Clues Answers
'Exodus' hero ARI
'Messiah' composer HANDEL
'Sounds good!' OKAY
'___ out of your league, man!' SHES
Actor Damon MATT
Any graduate from a women's college ALUMNA
Baseball designation one step below Major League AAA
BBs and bullets AMMO
Be EXIST
Be hot, hot, hot BOIL
Becomes an Elvis impersonator? SNEERS
Cacophony DIN
Calendar page MONTH
Close, in a guessing game WARM
Common highway speed limit SEVENTY
Compromised, as two parties METINTHEMIDDLE
Corner chess piece ROOK
Des Moines native IOWAN
Distorts, as data SKEWS
Down-and-out NEEDY
Exercise one's right under the Second Amendment OWNAGUN
Facetious fall guy for one's wrongdoings, maybe EVILTWIN
German state whose capital is Dresden SAXONY
Get hitched GODOWNTHEAISLE
High as a kite STONED
Horror film assistant with a Russian name IGOR
How chop suey is often served ONRICE
Hypes BOOSTS
Illuminated from below UPLIT
India's capital before New Delhi CALCUTTA
Jane Austen classic EMMA
Lab container VIAL
Lets some air in, say CRACKSAWINDOW
Like guys MALE
Lions and tigers, but not bears BIGCATS
Clues Answers
Make an engraving ETCH
Malapropism MISUSAGE
Marathon or sprint RACE
Mideast's ___ Heights GOLAN
Mideast's ___ Strip GAZA
Muppet with a long bluish nose GONZO
Narrow opening SLIT
Ocean bottoms DEPTHS
Opposite of innocent GUILTY
Parts of a moral code VALUES
Plant bristles AWNS
Plumbing problem LEAK
Pub orders ALES
Pull an oar ROW
Salon tints DYES
Shah's land IRAN
Sheer awfulness ENORMITY
Shout after the band leaves the stage ENCORE
Slangy dissent NOPE
Start watching a TV show, say TUNEIN
Strands at a chalet, say SNOWSIN
Toots one's own horn BRAGS
Uttered SAID
Vehicle with a hatch on top TANK
Venus de ___ MILO
What the ends of the answers to 20-, 26- and 42-Across are AIRPLANESEATS
Wheel's edge RIM
Woman's name that sounds like a letter ELLE
Word that's only coincidentally made up of the four main compass points NEWS
Wore HADON
Zapped, as during an arrest TASED
___ 500 INDY
___ Fields cookies MRS
___ in a blue moon ONCE
___ Taylor, women's clothing chain ANN