New York Times - May 25 2008

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Clues Answers
'By the power vested ___ ...' INME
'Exodus' hero ARI
'Lost' filming locale OAHU
'Put ___ writing!' ITIN
'Romanzero' poet HEINE
'Smooth Operator' singer SADE
'The Allegory of Love' writer, 1936 CSLEWIS
'True' ITISSO
'___ #1!' WERE
*1962-67, 1971 SEANCONNERY
*1969 GEORGELAZENBY
*1973-85 ROGERMOORE
*1987-89 TIMOTHYDALTON
*1995-2002 PIERCEBROSNAN
*2006– DANIELCRAIG
1998 Sarah McLachlan hit ADIA
2003 best-selling fantasy novel by teen author Christopher Paolini ERAGON
A great deal MUCH
Aches FEELSBAD
Alarming SCARING
Alexander Hamilton's last act DUEL
Alpha DOMINANT
Artist Watteau ANTOINE
Aside (from) APART
Attire with supersized pockets CARGOPANTS
Auditioned for 'American Idol' SANG
Authorizes ENTITLES
Autumn birthstone OPAL
Baton Rouge sch. LSU
Beethoven's third? DREI
Bluesy Smith BESSIE
Bond common to the answers to the six starred clues JAMES
Brief encounter? MTG
Brings out EDUCES
Butterfly experts, perhaps SWIMTEAM
Cable TV inits. TBS
California's ___ Valley SIMI
Castle and Cara IRENES
Chairman's supporter? MAOIST
Clinches ICES
Commander HEAD
Composer of 'Dido and Aeneas' ARNE
Deviled things EGGS
Disapproving cry FIE
Disco guy on 'The Simpsons' STU
Drs.' org. AMA
Ecuador and Venezuela are in it OPEC
Edwards and others: Abbr. AFBS
End of a plumb line BOB
Eye doctor's concern STYE
Fights TUSSLES
Figures at many a wedding reception, briefly DJS
First mate ADAM
Foyer item AREARUG
French seas MERS
Game played with a 40-card deck OMBRE
Garbage hauler SCOW
German direction OST
Global currency org. IMF
Gut course EASYA
Hanna-Barbera art CEL
Homeland protection org. NSC
How architects' models are built TOSCALE
Hungers DESIRES
In song, 'Once you pass its borders, you can ne'er return again' TOYLAND
It can be fragile EGO
It may give you a cold shoulder DRAFT
It's full of holes GOLFCOURSE
Italian town known for its embroidery ASSISI
Jalopy HEAP
Clues Answers
Kite flier's wish GUST
Knee sock material ORLON
Kurchatov who oversaw the Soviet atomic bomb project IGOR
Lambs' kin EWES
Law assignment CASE
Layer PLY
Least restrained RASHEST
Lennon's mate ONO
Like some video, to cable customers ONDEMAND
Like some wrestling GRECOROMAN
Lou Bega's '___ No. 5' MAMBO
Lowly one TOAD
Main mailbox locale: Abbr. GPO
March 25, in the Christian calendar LADYDAY
Med. plans HMOS
Mexican beer CORONA
Moles' production TUNNELS
Muscle mag displays BODS
N.B.A.'s ___ Ming YAO
Name-drop, maybe? ERASE
Natl. Poetry Mo. APR
Nears, with 'on' HOMESIN
Neighborhood next to N.Y.C.'s East Village NOHO
New Jersey city, county or river PASSAIC
Night lights AURORAS
Ocean menaces ORCAS
Offering from St. Joseph ASPIRIN
Old propaganda propagator TASS
On ABOARD
Ottoman V.I.P.'s AGHAS
Phone co. employee OPER
Piano players' hangouts LOUNGES
Plan for dinner MENU
Plug in a travel kit ADAPTER
Powder site, maybe WIG
Programme airer, with 'the' BEEB
Relating to a blood line AORTAL
Residences, in slang PADS
Rich soil LOAM
Rock guitarist once married to Goldie Hawn BILLHUDSON
Runners' locales SLEDS
Second start? NANO
Semitic deity BAAL
Shakes up AGITATES
Ship-to-ship communication AHOY
Sign of approval STAMP
Singer Jones and others ETTAS
Sneaky SLY
Spearheaded LED
Speech pauses UMS
Sub systems SONARS
Subj. for bilinguals ESL
Suffix with billion AIRE
Suffix with urban ITE
Surprisingly NOLESS
Sweater flaw SNAG
Tennis star Mandlikova HANA
Title for 48-Across and 3-Down SIR
Univ. house FRAT
Ventured (forth) SALLIED
Ward off REPEL
Warhol's '___ of Six Self-Portraits' ASET
White-collared thrush: Var. OUSEL
Willy Wonka's creator DAHL
Wood shaper ADZ
Writer born May 28, 1908 IANFLEMING
[See instructions in Notepad] MARTINI
___ 9, first spacecraft to land softly on the moon LUNA
___ buco OSSO
___ Na Na SHA