New York Times - Aug 20 2009

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Clues Answers
'Beauty and the Beat' band GOGOS
1958 #1 song with the lyric 'Let's fly way up to the clouds' VOLARE
Ab ___ (from the top) OVO
Advice for essay writers BEORIGINAL
Albanian coin LEK
Be an utter bore? DRO
Beer from upstate New York SARANAC
Best Director of 1992 and 2004 EASTOD
Big name in oil WESSON
Bully's warning ORELSE
Burning AFIRE
Butterfly wings, e.g. ALAE
Celtic land ERIN
Chorus line opener TRA
Clinks overseas GAOLS
Concord UNITY
Constellation ASTERISM
Daze STUPOR
Dickens creep HEEP
Direct STEER
Each APIECE
Easter flower, in Is-sur-Tille LIS
Eight producers? ICESKATERS
Excuse given for asking for a ride IDONTDRIVE
Exits GOES
Final words of Numbers 5:22 AMENAMEN
Free of charge ASAGIFT
G.M., Ford and Chrysler BIGT
Handel cantata '___ e Leandro' ERO
Has on hand STOCKS
Hawaiian strings? LEIS
How mini-pizzas are usually cut INFTHS
Humanoid trees in Tolkien ENTS
Ingratiate ENDEAR
Intuit SENSE
Jagged EROSE
Kosher LEGIT
Clues Answers
Like the symmetry of a starfish FFOLD
Middles that are often too big WAISTS
Neck of the woods AREA
Nice kind of workweek FDAY
Not shaky SOLID
O.K.'s from the O.K. Corral? YEPS
Old comic strip '___ an' Slats' ABBIE
P.D.Q. Bach's 'Sanka Cantata' and such PARODIES
Paris palace ELYSEE
Part of some chains: Abbr. ISL
Partisan leader? NON
Payroll dept. figs. SSNS
Presidential nickname IKE
Proctor's call TIME
Promgoers, e.g.: Abbr. SRS
Rests TAKESF
School basics TRS
Setting for an Agatha Christie novel NILE
Sounds off OPINES
Square dance partner GAL
Start of the United Negro College Fund slogan AMIND
Tabula ___ RASA
The fool in 'A fool and his money are soon parted' ANTECEDENT
Ticks, say: Abbr. SECS
Time for potty training, maybe AGET
Toddler's attire OSIE
Tony-winning 'Frost/Nixon' actor LANGELLA
Tube top CAP
Walks unsteadily REELS
Want from ASKOF
Washington in the Songwriters Hall of Fame NED
What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order PARALLELOGRAM
When Canada celebrates Thanksgiving: Abbr. OCT
Wiring experts: Abbr. EES
You might get one before a party INVITE
___ cloud (region of comets far beyond Pluto) OORT
___ Szewinska, Olympic sprinting gold medalist of 1964, 1968 and 1976 IRENA