New York Times - Aug 16 2010

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Clues Answers
'Ain't gonna happen' NOPE
'Alley ___' OOP
'And our love become a funeral ___' (lyric from the Doors' 'Light My Fire') PYRE
'Famous' cookie guy AMOS
'Give it ___!' ('Quit harping!') AREST
'Go, bullfighter!' OLE
'What ___ the chances?' ARE
'___ Abner' LIL
24 cans of beer, e.g. CASE
Anne Frank's hideout ATTIC
Appetizer, entree or dessert DISH
Apportion, with 'out' METE
Audition tape DEMO
Austrian peaks ALPS
Author Bellow SAUL
Awful mistake SNAFU
Baby sheep LAMBS
Back of a boat AFT
Baptism or bar mitzvah RITE
Bloom: Sp. FLOR
Both: Prefix AMBI
Buck's mate DOE
Cabinet head: Abbr. SECY
Christmas carols NOELS
Cousin of an ostrich EMU
Crow's call CAW
Divas have sensitive ones EGOS
Drink served with a mint leaf ICETEA
Drooping, as a rabbit's ears ALOP
Early night, to a poet EEN
End-of-the-week office dress policy, maybe CASUALFRIDAY
Environmental prefix ECO
Firecracker that fizzles DUD
Franciscan order member CAPUCHINMONK
French place of learning ECOLE
Go 80 m.p.h., say SPEED
Got up STOOD
Grand party GALA
Greek love god EROS
Clues Answers
Have high hopes ASPIRE
Having the jitters ANTSY
Indian metropolis DELHI
Italian wine province ASTI
Kelly Clarkson and Fantasia IDOLS
Laugh-a-minute folks RIOTS
Lenin's land, for short USSR
Letter after beta GAMMA
Like an untended garden WEEDY
Like some symmetry AXIAL
No longer chic OUT
No longer worth debating MOOT
Ogden who wrote 'Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker' NASH
One in a jam? MUSICIAN
Ooze EXUDE
Pablo Casals's instrument CELLO
Paris's ___ de la Cité ILE
Permanently sever ties BURNONESBRIDGES
Pisa's river ARNO
Place to get a mud bath SPA
President of Egypt before Sadat NASSER
Quaint computer insert DISKETTE
RCA product VCR
Robert of 'Meet the Parents' DENIRO
Roman author of 'Metamorphoses' OVID
Sacred choral work MOTET
Ship of Columbus PINTA
Stevie Wonder's 'My Cherie ___' AMOUR
Sunbathe TAN
Tehran is its capital IRAN
Telepath's 'gift,' in brief ESP
Throb PULSE
Uncle's special little girl NIECE
Unpredictable sort LOOSECANNON
What each of the characters named at the ends of 17-, 24-, 38- and 48-Across is TVDETECTIVE
Word after skinny or salsa DIP
Yucatán Indian MAYAN
___ Abdul, former judge of 22-Across PAULA
___ Vegas LAS