New York Times - Dec 12 2010

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Clues Answers
'Bus Stop' playwright INGE
'I got ___ ...' AGAL
'I Was ___ War Bride' AMALE
'The Sopranos' roles HITMEN
'The Time Machine' people ELOI
'___ to Be You' ITHAD
1975 Wimbledon winner ASHE
22 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, in D.C. STS
A reed OBOE
Accident reminder SCAR
Actress de Ravin of 'Roswell' and 'Lost' EMILIE
Alien attackers' goal? GLOBALHARMING
Ambition GOAL
Architect Saarinen EERO
Battlefield activity TRIAGE
Billfold fillers ONES
Birthplace of cuneiform writing SUMER
Blast BALL
Blockade EMBARGO
Butt STUB
Cabo da ___, westernmost spot in continental Europe ROCA
Caleb who wrote 'The Alienist' CARR
Capital city whose name means 'place of the gods' LHASA
Cartonfuls of eggs DOZENS
Chicken for dinner BROILER
Choice of the right door on 'Let's Make a Deal'? HINGEDVICTORY
Coil LOOP
Columbus called it home GENOA
Czech city BRNO
Dancer's duds TUTU
Decisive time DDAY
Depend RELY
Draped item SARI
Earth and beyond COSMOS
Edmonton N.H.L.'er OILER
End-of-semester event EXAM
Étienne's mine AMOI
Evangeline, for one ACADIAN
Extremely pale ASHEN
Falling apart DECREPIT
Fictitious Plaza resident ELOISE
Flock after a rainstorm? CLEANSHEEP
Forcibly divides RIVES
Forlorn, say DESERTED
German article EINE
Gingerbread man's eye, maybe RAISIN
God with a day of the week named after him THOR
Hawke and Allen ETHANS
Hiccups, so to speak SNAGS
High schooler TEEN
Holy, to Horace SACER
Indian musician's collection SITARS
Indian state once owned by Portugal GOA
Is heartbroken ACHES
Ivanhoe's creator SCOTT
John Irving title character GARP
Just missed a birdie PARRED
Kind of committee ADHOC
Lady Bird Johnson's middle name ALTA
Last word of Kansas' motto ASPERA
Law office worker, informally PARA
Layers HENS
Like tuned-in listeners? READYTOHEAR
List-ending abbr. ETAL
Lo-cal LITE
Logician's word ERGO
Lorelei's locale RHINE
Luxury EASE
Madrileño's home ESPANA
Maid's supply LINEN
Clues Answers
Manischewitz products MATZOHS
Many unopened letters SPAM
Mata ___ HARI
Medicinal plant ALOE
Most likely to succeed ABLEST
Mushroom-to-be SPORE
Nautical pole SPAR
Nine Muses after dieting? THINSISTERS
No longer carrying current DEAD
Not so genteel EARTHIER
Orlando team water boy, e.g.? MAGICHAND
Oscars org. AMPAS
Part of a presidential motorcade ESCORT
Part of an Egyptian headpiece ASP
Part of songwriting LYRIC
Persephone's abductor HADES
Phony SHAM
Photo finish MATTE
Polished SHINY
Poly- follower ESTER
Pond denizen MALLARD
Poor, as security LAX
Popular German beer, informally STPAULIS
Produce an egg OVULATE
R.N.'s work in them ERS
Rain checks? TARPS
Ring-tailed animal COATI
River forming the borders of parts of five states OHIO
Robert Louis Stevenson title character MRHYDE
Robert who played Mr. Chips DONAT
Roberts's 'Pretty Woman' co-star GERE
Royal of 27-Across REINA
Rush hour control? HASTEMANAGEMENT
Salt Lake City player UTE
Say 'cheese,' say SMILE
Score component NOTE
See 50-Down OBAMA
Showy coat? GILT
Son or daughter, typically HEIR
Soul singer James with the 1990 #1 hit 'I Don't Have the Heart' INGRAM
Stated AVERRED
Stop on many a Caribbean cruise NASSAU
Stout, for one ALE
Subtracting LESS
Suffix with pay OLA
Symbol of simplicity ABC
Synchronized (with) INSTEP
Taking out DELETING
Tempo for a stringed instrument? HARPSPEED
Texting alternative EMAIL
The Destroyer, in Hinduism SIVA
The Enlightened One BUDDHA
Tortoise's opponent after finishing second? SILVERHARE
Trim EDGING
Trunks TORSI
Turn in many a kids' game SPIN
Turner of Hollywood LANA
Voting day: Abbr. TUE
Was over ENDED
Windpipe TRACHEA
Winger of 'Urban Cowboy' DEBRA
Wings on an avis ALAE
With 32-Down, first lady who graduated from Harvard Law MICHELLE
Wolf MASHER
Word before 'a will' and 'a way' THERES
Work at PLY
Year the emperor Frederick II died MCCL
___ different tune SINGA
___ prof. ASST
___ Red Seal (classical music label) RCA