New York Times - Nov 23 2008

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Clues Answers
'Alley ___' OOP
'Ladders to Fire' writer NIN
'On&On' singer Erykah ___ BADU
'The Laughing Man' author SALINGER
23-Across, e.g. FRENCHARTIST
25-Across, e.g. PAINTING
Academic area SCIENCES
Agcy. overseeing reactor safety NRC
Al Kaline, in uniform SIX
Ancient land near the Dead Sea EDOM
Andersson of 'Wild Strawberries' BIBI
Angrily crusading ONARAMPAGE
Animal oddity ALBINO
Auspices: Var. EGIS
Be bold enough DARE
Big D player MAV
Boardinghouse boarders ROOMERS
Brad and 86-Down, e.g. EXES
Brags about VAUNTS
Bridal path AISLE
Brightest star in Scorpius ANTARES
Brings around SWAYS
British noble, for short ARISTO
Butterfly variety SATYR
Canadian natives CREE
Canterbury can LOO
Carted off LEDAWAY
Celebrity FAME
Cleanup hitter, e.g. WALLOPER
Compound variant ISOMER
Concert venue HALL
Concert venue ARENA
Coulee RAVINE
Cupid, e.g. REINDEER
Current TOPICAL
Cushion user? BANKSHOT
Debate (with) SPAR
Devil's home? TASMANIA
Double-layer breads PITAS
Dr. Seuss character with a red hat SAMIAM
Duke of Cornwall's father-in-law, in Shakespeare LEAR
Earmarked (for) ALLOTTED
Factor in a restaurant rating AMBIENCE
Fiber-yielding plant SISAL
Fictional spread TARA
First installment PARTI
First name in spydom MATA
Florence attraction DAVID
Flying grp. since 1918 RAF
Fond du ___, Wis. LAC
Football Hall-of-Fame coach Greasy ___ NEALE
Fraternity letters PSIS
Get around SKIRT
Had a big laugh ROARED
Hideout LAIR
Hip in the '60s MOD
Ho Chi ___ MINH
Home of the Ramon Crater: Abbr. ISR
Horned viper ASP
How 25-Across appeared at a 6-Down in 1961 UPSIDEDOWN
How long 25-Across was 41-Down before being noticed and fixed FORTYSEVENDAYS
Individual PERSON
Intense aversions ODIUMS
Invoice amount NET
It's cultivated in the Andes COCA
It's deep BASS
Kipling short story, with 'The' MALTESECAT
Leader of the Fauvist movement HENRIMATISSE
Like the earliest Olympic festivals ELEAN
Like the mathematician Euler SWISS
Like the return of swallows to Capistrano YEARLY
Clues Answers
Long in films NIA
Long-distance letters ATT
Low-cost accommodations, briefly SRO
Make a slip NOD
Make lace TAT
Metric weight TONNE
More cool NEATER
Morning deposit DEW
Most urgent DIREST
Musical for which Ben Vereen won a Tony PIPPIN
N.Y.C. cultural event MOMAEXHIBITION
Nabokov novel ADA
Nobelist Pavlov IVAN
Not useless, as clothing WEARABLE
Nurse SIP
Old term of respect SAHIB
On ___ with (equal to) APAR
Onetime political columnist Joseph ALSOP
Oozy mixtures MUDS
Otter cousins MINKS
Paris's ___ la Paix RUEDE
Part of H.E.W.: Abbr. EDUC
Personal quirk TIC
Pouch SAC
Prefix with chemical AGRI
Prospering ones THRIVERS
Publicity INK
Reddish purple LILAC
Rejections NOS
Reply to irritably SNAPAT
Revolutionary 1930s bomber BTEN
San Francisco's ___ Hill NOB
Sax player's need REED
Say 'Final answer,' say COMMIT
Scuffles FRAYS
Scuffling ATIT
See 106-Down AFB
See 78-Down JEN
Show horse ARAB
Skylit areas ATRIA
Some 6-Down curators: Abbr. MFAS
Somewhat reduced LOWISH
Son, at the Sorbonne FILS
Spain joined it in 1982 NATO
Special ___ OPS
Sportage maker KIA
Stone in a 2008 Olympic medal JADE
Styles of 25-Across and the like WATERMEDIA
Suppliers of greetings CARDSTORES
Those, to Muñoz ESAS
Tiki bar offering LEI
Title of a work by 23-Across LEBATEAU
Touch off CAUSE
Train stop? ALTAR
Unreasonable, pricewise STIFF
Vegetable with yellow pods WAXBEAN
Visiting the U.S. capital INDC
Volleyball position SETTER
Web browsers USERS
Well-oiled STINKO
What Ramona wore in a 1966 Chuck Berry song TIGHTDRESS
Whirling INASPIN
Will be now? ARE
Winter protection EARLAP
With 112-Across, Okla. military area VANCE
Worked on a Life sentence? EDITED
Workout target LATS
Year Super Bowl XXXVII was played MMIII
Ziegfeld Follies designer ERTE
___ Accords of 1993 OSLO
___ es Salaam DAR