New York Times - Oct 16 2005

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'A Day Without Rain' singer ENYA
'Casablanca' role ILSA
'Meet John Doe' director CAPRA
'Yeah, we've got that,' e.g.? ONHANDREMARK
1912 Physics Nobelist ___ Dalen NILS
1964 Ronny and the Daytonas hit GTO
Afflicts AILS
Agitation FERMENT
Aligned PARALLEL
Aloe, naturally BALM
Ambulance attendant, often AIDER
Antimob acronym RICO
Approximately ORSO
Archaeologist's reckoning AGE
Archive documents ANNALS
Astrological point NADIR
Balderdash TRIPE
Barren DESOLATE
Beau SWAIN
Big trouble HOTWATER
Bigmouth CROC
Blueprint datum AREA
Butterfly in youth LARVA
Can FIRE
Catch-22 TRAP
Channel changer KNOB
Cherokee Strip city ENID
City NNW of Madrid LEON
City north of Cologne ESSEN
Day in a heat wave SCORCHER
Decision points FORKS
Decreasing numbers of FEWER
Doesn't own RENTS
Dormmate ROOMIE
Double-bonded compound ENOL
Drink from a machine LATTE
Dullish MATTE
Dutch ___ OVEN
Dweller on Cape Prince of Wales ALASKAN
Ego SELF
Et ___ ALII
European launch vehicle ARIANE
Excused from saving a sinking boat? RELEASEDOFFBAIL
Extra-base hit, probably? FLYOFFTHEWALL
F.D.R.'s wiring program REA
Fake molding in a room? KNOCKOFFWOOD
Familiar truths SAWS
Fancy home features ATRIA
Farm sound OINK
Fetter MANACLE
Fills, as cracks between tiles GROUTS
Film, briefly VID
First name in court fiction ERLE
Fouled in basketball, in a way? CAUGHTONGUARD
Game with a yellow card SOCCER
Garden site EDEN
Gave, as wood to a wood chipper FEDIN
Given to glad-handing SOCIAL
Got along FARED
Guidebook for golf greens? ONPUTTING
Gush SPEW
Hamlet, e.g. DANE
Hang around LOAF
Hang around LURK
Hard to lift LEADEN
Having nothing obscured NAKED
Humiliates ABASES
Indoctrinate BRAINWASH
Insignificant SLIM
It's in the past TWAS
Italian silk center COMO
Clues Answers
J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, at Oxford DONS
Layabout IDLER
Least change CENT
Leave in a hurry, with 'out' PEEL
Like ALA
Like fur coats LINED
Like tea BREWED
Long Island county NASSAU
Longtime 'Today' co-host LAUER
Low tie ONEALL
Lyrics WORDS
Make a long story short? EDIT
Managed, with 'out' EKED
Mideast potentate AMEER
Most contrived LAMEST
No, to Natasha NYET
Not forgetting ALSO
Now it's Thailand SIAM
Oberhausen cry ACH
Obscured HID
Official denial NOSIR
Olin of 'Chocolat' LENA
Out-of-control MANIAC
P.G.A. Tour site, ___ Pines TORREY
Part of the Old World: Abbr. AFR
Philosophy of the 'Chuang Tzu' TAOISM
Pianist/composer Dohnányi ERNO
PIN spotters? ATMS
Poor actor staying sober? HAMOFFRYE
Practice tit for tat RETALIATE
Prayer ORISON
Ransacks RIFLES
Realize REAP
Rectangular paving stones SETTS
Relieve EASE
Review of fall fashion accessories? TAKEONTHEGLOVES
Ring bearer FRODO
Run again REFLOW
Rush TIDE
Russian assembly DUMA
Sat POSED
Site of a historic 1905 revolt ODESSA
Skate part BLADE
Skip IGNORE
Skyline pointer SPIRE
Softly PIANO
Solo ARIA
Spillane's '___ Jury' ITHE
Start of a sowing adage ASYE
Suffering a loss BEREFT
Ticket CITE
Tongue-curling TART
Toucher of the Pacific Rim ASIA
Trapshoot SKEET
Trawlers' nets SEINES
Tropical helmet material PITH
Try again REDO
Tupper of Tupperware fame EARL
Undisguised RAW
Venues ARENAS
Vote seeker POL
Was very bright SHONE
Weaving willow OSIER
Where 'Guernica' was hung during W.W. II MOMA
Will of the Bible SHALT
Wise ___ owl ASAN
Wooden shoe SABOT
Woolen cloak of ancient Rome ABOLLA
___ facto IPSO
___ powers WAR
___-Magnon CRO