New York Times - Dec 17 2006

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Clues Answers
'Awww'-inspiring LOVBLE
'Here, maybe I can do it' LETMTRY
'Shane' actor ALNLADD
'Sic et Non' author ABELARD
'___ a chance' NOT
'___ bad!' TOO
Abrasive stuff PUMICE
Access code? OPENSESAME
Actor Wheaton WIL
Adds as a bonus THROWSIN
Already chosen for play, say ONATEAM
An Untouchable NESS
Ancient Roman financial officer: Var. QUESTOR
Antarctica's ___ Coast ADELIE
Approval on 'The Little Rascals' OTAY
Asian observance TET
Attacked in a rage FEWAT
Bay HOWL
Bay windows ORIELS
Be in a hole OWE
Beetle, e.g. CAR
Big name in sneakers PUMA
Big record co. EMI
Blood carriers AORTAE
BOOM PROSPER
Breaches of faith TREASONS
Center of emotions BOSOM
Chop up DICE
Clark of country music ROY
Cold war draft SALTII
Congresswoman Abzug and others BELLAS
Cot alternative FUTON
Count with many titles LEOTOLSTOY
Cow annoyers HORSEFIES
Crater creators, e.g. IMPACTOS
Disagrees TAKESISSUE
Discuss business at a social occasion TALKHOP
Drops OMITS
Drying chamber OAST
Explorer at Labrador in 1497 CBOT
Eye openers? DILTORS
Family subdivisions GENERA
Fired up LIT
Firms: Abbr. COS
Fourth of 12: Abbr. APR
French conductor Leibowitz RENE
French pronoun ILS
Gary ___, Pultizer-winning Beat poet SNDER
Gave birth to HAD
Guitar great ___ Paul LES
Hall-of-Fame pitcher Joss ADDIE
Has trouble swallowing GAGSON
Hater LOATHER
Home of many talk shows AMRADIO
Hot ALLTHERAGE
Hot STOLEN
Ibsen play GHOSTS
In shape FIT
It may be indicated by a stroke ONEAM
It may glow in the dark NEONGAS
It's used to check septic systems DYETEST
Its clue reads 'Unstable subatomic particle' TENOWN
Key-signature preceder GCLEF
Kind SOT
Land with monsoons LAOS
Licentious man LECHER
Like baba RAISIY
Like some carol apparel GAY
Lion, at times STALKER
Makeshift Frisbee PIEPLATE
Clues Answers
Mansion staff SERVNTS
Many, many ATONOF
Mass x velocity measurements MOMENTA
Matching pair TWINSET
Meat, in Madrid CRNE
Message in a bottle, maybe SOS
Metallurgists' supplies ORES
Minute opening? INA
Missed a golden opportunity BLEWIT
More faithful TRUER
More than devotion IOLATRY
Mosaic flooring TERRAZO
Mountain top? SKICAP
Newport Beach sight YACHT
Not monaurally ISTEREO
Often-smoked fish EELS
Once called NEE
One taking a big bow BASSFIDLE
Onetime PAST
Opposite of dominate YIELDTO
Opposite of post- PRE
Org. in TV's 'Nash Bridges' SFPD
Place of chaos ZOO
Plays DRAMAS
Prefix with skeleton EXO
Prevent from escaping SEALIN
Provided, as a line FED
RCA competitor SON
Receiver's counterpart PASSER
Red or Card NLER
Restaurateur Toots SHOR
Run for dear life? ELOPE
Rustic RUBE
Satellite of 1962 TELSTAR
Scruffs NAPES
See 37-Across GLANCE
See 51-Across TREE
Shareholder's income: Abbr. DIV
Sharp cheese quality NIP
Sine ___ non QUA
Sound in the middle of Italy SCHWA
Spot for slop STY
Spots for some shirts POLOADS
Started to melt GOTSOFT
State capital on the Tietê River SAOPAULO
Steakhouse selection FILET
Stockpiles HOARDS
Strong women AMAONS
Suffix with Capri OTE
Suffix with direct ORY
Supplier of candy and toys for kids PINATA
Take in slowly SIP
Targeted, as with a mailing SENTTO
They were once cloned IBMS
They're often dinged FENERS
This puzzle's northern border? CANADA
This puzzle's southern border? MEXICO
Treater's words ITSONM
Unpaired ODD
Unstable subatomic particle KAON
Vulnerable point WEAKPOT
Water falls? DRIPS
Where a bell ringer may stand DOORSTEP
Williams's 'Popeye' co-star DUVALL
With 33-Down, quickly ATA
With 97-Across, bearer of edible triangular nuts BEECH
Within reach NOTFAR
Yalie ELI
___ Club of old TV PTL
___ haddie (smoked fish) FINNAN