New York Times - Dec 31 2008

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Clues Answers
'A cockroach!' EEK
'At the Milliner's' painter DEGAS
'Bus 9 to Paradise' author Buscaglia LEO
'Finally!' ATLAST
'Heads up!,' e.g. ALERT
'How ___ Has the Banshee Cried' (Thomas Moore poem) OFT
'I love you,' in Spanish TEAMO
'It's the end of ___' ANERA
'Obey your thirst' sloganeer, once SPRITE
'Sands of ___ Jima' IWO
'___ but true' SAD
'___ see it ...' ASI
A little advance work RECON
Activated again, as a burner RELIT
Addlebrain LOON
Again ANEW
Agitates ROILS
Alarming SCARY
Alfredo sauce ingredient CREAM
Altimeter user PILOT
Annoy VEX
Auto route from Me. to Fla. USONE
Basis of a false arrest, perhaps TRUMPEDUPCHARGE
Call after a toss TAILS
Common lunch hr. ONEPM
Confess OWNUP
Dead man's hand card ACE
Dick Van ___ DYKE
Did one's part? ACTED
Divided Asian land KOREA
Enterprise inits. USS
Feel like quarreling about something HAVEABONETOPICK
Gain back RECOUP
Gangster's code of silence OMERTA
Gillette razor ATRA
Give ___ in the arm ASHOT
Going past the fourth quarter, say PLAYINGOVERTIME
Gown's partner CAP
Clues Answers
Greet the day ARISE
Grounds for a good night's sleep? DECAF
Hamburg's river ELBE
Hedren of Hitchcock's 'The Birds' TIPPI
In view SEEN
Informal reply to 'Who's there?' ITSME
Letters after two slashes WWW
Like the Beatles' Sadie SEXY
Meal-in-a-can brand ALPO
Mexican restaurant offering TACO
Monastic jurisdiction ABBACY
Native of NE Siberia YAKUT
No halfway effort TOTALCOMMITMENT
No longer bright, as colors MUTED
Noggin BEAN
Off the wall SCREWY
Okra stew GUMBO
On ___ with (even with) APAR
One of a seasonal octet DASHER
Rand who wrote 'Atlas Shrugged' AYN
Range extending south from the Kara Sea URALS
Richard and Jane in court ROES
Sch. where Shaquille O'Neal played basketball LSU
Skilled ADEPT
Spanish uncles TIOS
Steal, slangily COP
Suffix with hotel IER
Support with stone, as an embankment REVET
They're guarded at the Olympics EPEES
U.K. military medals DSOS
Use as a bed LIEON
Use diligently PLY
When a football may be hiked ONTWO
Women's hybrid clothing SKORTS
Writer's guidelines SPECS
___ Games PANAM
___ Kippur YOM
___'wester SOU