New York Times - Dec 18 2005

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Clues Answers
'Dig?' DOYOUUNDERSTAND
'For the ___ and radiant maiden': Poe RARE
'Good ___!' IDEA
'Have a nice weekend … heh-heh' HOMEWORKISDUEONMONDAY
'High Spirits' star, 1988 OTOOLE
'I can't read your handwriting!' NEXTTIMETYPE
'If I could digress for a moment …' YOUDONTNEEDTOKNOWTHIS
'My lecture's done, but we still have five minutes' ANYQUESTIONS
'That's ___!' SHOWBIZ
'The Aviator' actor, 2004 ALDA
'You, in the front row!' INEEDAVOLUNTEER
'Your grades aren't what they should be' SEEMEAFTERCLASS
'___ take arms against a sea of troubles': Hamlet ORTO
27 for 56-Across, e.g.: Abbr. ATNO
50-Across's partner KITH
Any of TV's Simpsons TOON
Apples can be compared to them IBMS
Appraiser EYER
Babealicious HOT
Beard DARE
Behind REAR
Best replacement STARR
Black holes, e.g. ABYSSES
Blurted (out) SPAT
Bottom lines NETCOSTS
Brian of rock ENO
Caesarean delivery? ETTU
Cantillated INTONED
Cap sites KNEES
Car maker whose name is Latin AUDI
Certain guilty pleasure TRASHTV
Controversial 50's event ATEST
County of Dover, Delaware … or Dover, England KENT
Cousin of Muhammad ALI
Cracked AJAR
Crowd attractor SALE
Cry of success YES
Cutting down, after 'on' ADIET
Dig MINE
Diplomat Deane of early America SILAS
Docent's offering TOUR
E'en if THO
Element in magnetic alloys COBALT
Ending of many toothpaste names DENT
Endorphin, e.g. OPIATE
Fall locale EDEN
Family KIN
Father or son Joad in 'The Grapes of Wrath' TOM
Feminine suffix ESS
Feminine suffix ENNE
First name in modeling TYRA
French satellite-launching rocket ARIANE
German coal city ESSEN
Gets NABS
Go through slowly OOZE
Good time to collect seashells EBBTIDE
Govt. org. with a flower in its logo EPA
Great American Ballpark team THEREDS
Hardy girl TESS
Having four sharps INE
Heads of états TETES
In the initial phases EARLYON
Index fingers, in a children's hand game STEEPLE
Inhuman BEASTLY
Inlet RIA
Is multitudinous TEEMS
Isn't joking MEANSIT
It lacks 93-Across ATM
It works like a charm AMULET
Its musical ID is just the notes G, E and C NBC
Clues Answers
Last lines CODAS
Le soleil, par exemple ETOILE
Like Charlie Chaplin ANTIC
Like raccoons MASKED
Like some Bedouins IRAQI
Like some effects DESIRED
Listening to Muzak, maybe ONHOLD
Literary dueler ARAMIS
Marine killer ORCA
Meatloaf serving SLAB
Melodramatic SOAPY
Mona ___ smile LISAS
Neb. neighbor SDAK
Netanyahu's successor BARAK
Not take for credit AUDIT
Objects of envy JONESES
Old German duchy name SAXE
Old literary inits. RLS
One of six Russian rulers IVAN
Open case MYSTERY
Opportune RIPE
Part of a speller's clarification ASIN
Parts of hearts ATRIA
Philosopher Descartes RENE
Polite question MAYI
Port container CASK
Pound with a metric system? EZRA
Pourer's request SAYWHEN
Proceed nonchalantly SASHAY
Professors' environs ACADEME
Quadrennial White House administration OATH
Record problem SKIP
Relative of a potato TARO
Reynolds Wrap maker ALCOA
Riddle-me-___ REE
Ridicule GIBE
River of W.W. I YSER
San Francisco street named for a president POLK
Sarah Josepha ___, who wrote 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' HALE
Serenades, as the moon BAYSAT
Set of values ETHOS
Seven-time French Open winner EVERT
Sharp ALERT
Siren LURE
Slate, e.g., for short EMAG
Some bills ONES
Some have black eyes PEAS
Sore throat remedy LEMONTEA
Spaced (out) ZONED
Spy's gizmo CODER
Stamp letters USDA
Start of a decision-making process EENY
Steamed IRATE
Submit SENDIN
Successful film franchise starting in 1979 STARTREK
Takes off SOARS
Technique for viewing some slides? SLOMO
Ten Commandments word THOU
The Beatles, once MANIA
The lonely goatherd, in a 'Sound of Music' song YODELER
Track event MEET
Track runner? TRAM
Trojan horse TRICK
Turn off ALIENATE
Uncle ___ rice BENS
Verve ELAN
Vikings' org. NFL
W.W. II conference site TEHRAN
Was a good dog, perhaps STAYED
Ziegfeld Follies costume designer ERTE