New York Times - Mar 15 2009

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Clues Answers
'Bold Lover, never, never ___ thou kiss': Keats CANST
'Born Free' lioness ELSA
'Family Guy' mom LOIS
'Holy moly!' YEGODS
'Let's Make a Deal' choice DOOR
'Rapture' singer Baker ANITA
'Tarzan' star Ron ELY
'The Lord of the Rings' ring bearer GOLLUM
1970 disaster flick AIRPORT
2008 World Series winner PHILLIE
Accepted fact GIVEN
Actions on shirtsleeves TUGS
Actor Rhames of the 'Mission: Impossible' films VING
Alternative energy type SOLAR
Apprehensive ANTSY
Architect Saarinen EERO
Arithmetic series symbol SIGMA
Astronaut's old wound? SPACESCAR
Atlas Mountains locale ALGERIA
Audit, with 'on' SITIN
Aware of HIPTO
Away from the wind ALEE
Be a busybody MEDDLE
Blockbuster movie, e.g. RENTAL
Book recited during Purim ESTHER
Brand recognition aids LOGOS
Buddy MAC
Bun topper SESAME
CBS show with two spinoffs CSI
Certain crossword entries DOWNS
Change devices that divert trains to different tracks? SWITCHSHUNTS
City in Tornado Alley TULSA
Co. that makes bar code scanners NCR
Colombian carrier AVIANCA
Combination AMALGAM
Comedic bits by guys sitting at a bar? STOOLSKITS
Cool ___ CAT
Cracker coating SALT
Dartboard site PUB
Depression-era photojournalist Dorothea LANGE
Desideratum NEED
Dict. entries WDS
Director Jean-___ Godard LUC
Disgrace ODIUM
Dispensing, with 'out' METING
Docket listings CASES
Does some improvisations SCATS
Drink garnish, often RIND
Dummkopf ASS
Eastern Catholic who recognizes the pope's authority UNIATE
Ejects SPEWS
Folded fast food TACO
Foot pads? INSOLES
Geological epoch when mastodons appeared MIOCENE
German 'rocks' EIS
Gilbert and Sullivan princess IDA
Go before PRECEDE
Group with an Exalted Ruler ELKS
Habitual practices USAGES
Hair shirt wearer's activity PENANCE
Hiccups, so to speak SNAGS
Hierarchy chart's top box CEO
Hits with one's fist BOPS
Holders of jacks MODEMS
Honey pie TOOTS
Icon on Guinness bottles HARP
Illinois governor before Blagojevich RYAN
In ancient times LONGAGO
In any way ATALL
Clues Answers
Increase in perfect basketball shots? SWISHINGSWELL
Ingénue in Chekhov's 'The Seagull' NINA
Inventor's inits. TAE
Irritating RILING
It may be checked KING
It might hold the solution BEAKER
It's considerably bigger than D EEE
IV DRIP
JUDGE ASSESS
Kickback for good publicity PLUGOLA
Large field of dirt? SOILSPAN
Like bar mitzvahs JUDAIC
Literary award shaped like a rocket HUGO
Make aquatints ETCH
Maker of Caplio cameras RICOH
Making, as money MINTING
Modest knowledge SMATTER
Moves fingers across strings STRUMS
Name shared by two apostles JAMES
Nautical passage STRAIT
Nice touch CARESS
Not properly explained UNCLEAR
Old bronze coin SOU
On the other hand YET
Only five-time U.S. Horse of the Year KELSO
Opened wide GAPED
Opposite of paleo- NEO
Ore refinery? SMELTINGSPOT
Org. co-founded by W. E. B. Du Bois NAACP
Org. founded by Samuel Gompers AFL
Originally NEE
Oscar winner Kedrova LILA
Out, in library lingo ONLOAN
Penultimate round SEMIS
Piece of hay? STABLESTALK
Pythian Games site DELPHI
Rainbow goddess IRIS
Reaction upon being hit with a chair in WrestleMania? SHAMSHOCK
Removes lumps from batter STIRS
Ridiculed someone as loudly as possible? SCREAMEDSCORN
Schönberg's 'Moses und ___' ARON
Scratch left on a table? TIP
See 115-Down SMITH
See 121-Down LEIA
Snow tire features STUDS
Sporty Mazdas MIATAS
Standing subway passenger's aid STRAP
Stoked, perhaps AGOG
Strong hold'em holding ACES
Tarot suit CUPS
Tempur-Pedic competitor SERTA
The Pacific's 'Valley Isle' MAUI
Too good to miss, as a TV show MUSTSEE
Tossed SLUNG
Trattoria dish LASAGNE
Urges on INCITES
V, to Valerian FIVE
W.W. II submachine gun STEN
What an angry robot might do? SPITSCREWS
What Buffy might be doing at the end of a long, hard night? SLAYINGSLOW
With 47-Down, Oscar nominee for 'Ali' WILL
Worked at an herb shop, maybe? SOLDSAGE
World Heritage Site in Jordan PETRA
Worshipers at Amritsar's Golden Temple SIKHS
Writer William Dean ___ HOWELLS
Yes-men feed them EGOS
___ and aahed OOHED
___ Miguel (largest of the Azores) SAO
___ Solo, love interest of 116-Across HAN