New York Times - Oct 17 2007

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Clues Answers
'Dry-clean only,' e.g.? TEXTILEMESSAGE
'Evil empire' of the '80s USSR
'It's ___ real!' BEEN
'Stupid me!' OOPS
'___ Organum' (1620 Francis Bacon work) NOVUM
A program usually has one ICON
A sergeant might ask a soldier to pick it up PACE
Acid neutralizers ALKALIS
All the rockets in existence? MISSILEUNIVERSE
Alt. spelling VAR
Angry reaction RISE
Animal with a shaggy coat MUSKOX
As a friend, to the French ENAMI
Ask for SEEK
Astronaut ___ Bluford, the first African-American in space GUION
Baseball's Ed and Mel OTTS
Brand of shaving products AFTA
Brewery units VATS
Cabaret, e.g. CLUB
Casino pair DICE
Cooking utensil from central Spain? CASTILEIRONPAN
Crucifix inscription INRI
Dads PAS
Debtor's letters IOU
Deep fissure CREVASSE
Does as told OBEYS
Empty (of) RID
Eyelid woe STYE
First course option SOUP
First N.F.L. QB with consecutive 30-touchdown passing seasons YATITTLE
First-year J.D. candidate ONEL
Fizzled out DIED
Geezers' replies EHS
Giant-screen film format IMAX
HAL 9000, in '2001: A Space Odyssey'? HOSTILECOMPUTER
I.R.S. ID's SSNS
Iran-___ CONTRA
Karate blow CHOP
Clues Answers
Like a starless sky INKY
Like déjà vu EERIE
Marzipan ingredient ALMOND
Mayberry boy OPIE
Mil. option ROTC
Minute part of a minute: Abbr. NSEC
Mutual fund redemption charge EXITFEE
Noughts-and-crosses win OOO
Novelist Ferber EDNA
Ooze SEEP
Oral history LORE
Outlet of the left ventricle AORTA
Piggy TOE
Place for shots TAVERN
Poky CAN
Radio's former '___ in the Morning' IMUS
Recipe parts STEPS
Relative key of C major AMINOR
Restaurant chain acronym IHOP
Sarge's superior LOOIE
Second-longest human bone TIBIA
Small, as a Beanie Baby TEENIE
Smuggler's stock OPIUM
Some emergency cases, for short ODS
Sport with lunges EPEE
Stahl of '60 Minutes' LESLEY
Subject of the 1999 film 'Le Temps Retrouvé' PROUST
Summer wine selection ROSE
Tabbies' mates TOMS
Table scraps ORTS
The last Mrs. Chaplin OONA
The Velvet Fog TORME
Thus far ASYET
Turner who sang 'The Best' TINA
U.K. record label EMI
Utopias EDENS
___ Andreas Fault SAN
___ buco OSSO