New York Times - Jun 15 2010

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Clues Answers
'Now it's clear' ISEE
Aid for skiing uphill ROPETOW
Alternative to an iron WOOD
Apply brakes to SLOW
Arizona tribe NAVAHO
Arrangement of locks HAIRDO
Bad grades EFFS
Beginning ONSET
Big book TOME
Bow out of a poker hand FOLD
Caesar's nine NOVEM
College V.I.P. DEAN
Crack officer? NARC
Day of anticipation EVE
Delhi wrap: Var. SAREE
Dig in EAT
Dish simmered in a pot STEW
Fall bloom ASTER
Feminine suffix ENNE
Francis of old game shows ARLENE
Gearbox option REVERSE
Get an ___ effort EFOR
Host of a nightly TV show taped in Burbank LENO
Hot breakfast cereal FARINA
Impudent nobody TWERP
Intermittent, as a relationship ONAGAINOFFAGAIN
It may come before the end of a sentence PAROLE
It's attention-getting PSST
Jester FOOL
Last step at a bakery ICING
Leaves the main topic temporarily ISOFFONATANGENT
Lift the spirits of ELATE
Limbs for movie pirates PEGLEGS
Little help? ELF
Loretta of 'M*A*S*H' SWIT
Member of a Pre-Columbian empire INCA
Message runner PAGE
Modern dweller in ancient Ur IRAQI
More exquisite FINER
Clues Answers
Negotiator's refusal NODEAL
Not get merely by accident EARN
Old El ___ (food brand) PASO
One you dig the most FAVE
Org. with audits IRS
Pain reliever brand ALEVE
Pet rocks, once FAD
Place to relax SPA
Playground retort CANSO
Plumlike fruit SLOE
Prebirth event SHOWER
Pub deliveries ALES
Quadraphonic halved STEREO
Questions ASKS
Resinous tree FIR
Rice who wrote 'The Vampire Chronicles' ANNE
River of Normandy ORNE
Sand GRIT
Scottish miss LASS
Scrabble piece TILE
Show hosts, for short MCS
Simile connection ASA
Smuggler's unit KILO
Spearheaded LED
Start to exit an Interstate GETONTHEOFFRAMP
Stick it in your ear QTIP
Sunburned RED
Terrestrial salamanders EFTS
Time in earth's history AEON
Tiny battery AAAA
Top-of-the-charts number ONE
Trade places ... or a hint to parts of 17-, 27- and 48-Across SWITCHPOSITIONS
Uses an iron or a 7-Down, say GOLFS
Voting yes PRO
Whistle blower, in brief REF
___ Aviv TEL
___ Kagan, Obama nominee to the Supreme Court ELENA
___ Solo, Harrison Ford role HAN
___-do-well NEER