New York Times - Sep 25 2011

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Clues Answers
'Author! Author!' star, 1982 ALPACINO
'Buddenbrooks' novelist MANN
'Cheers' spinoff mania? FRASIERCRAZE
'Great' red feature of Jupiter SPOT
'My heavens!' YIKES
'My heavens!' EGAD
'No worries' ITSALLGOOD
'R' card in Uno, in effect REVERSER
'The only rule is that there ___ rules' ARENO
'Why not!' WHATTHEHEY
1983 Woody Allen film ZELIG
1997 best seller subtitled 'Her True Story' DIANA
A bit slow DIM
Allies have one TREATY
Almost matching SIMILAR
Alternative to Ole or Edvard OLAV
Arrives GETSIN
Big name in root beer AANDW
Black Watch soldier's garb KILT
Bonded WED
Broadly speaking ASARULE
Bryn ___ College MAWR
California's ___ Castle HEARST
Campfire treat SMORE
Cartridge filler AMMO
CBS's 'The ___ Today' NFL
Charismatic effect AURA
Charles, e.g ROI
Cheer for URGEON
China's Zhou ___ ENLAI
Clear LIMPID
Climbing aid PITON
Cone former LAVA
Contraction before boy or girl ATTA
Corrupts DEBASES
Crew POSSE
Cry after a series of numbers HIKE
Cut-off pants? TROU
Daydreams, with 'out' ZONES
Desire, with 'the' HOTS
Differ DISAGREE
Distrustful LEERY
Downed power lines, e.g ROADHAZARD
Drill attachment with teeth SAWBIT
Eases the misgivings of ASSURES
English weight TONNE
Entrees sometimes prepared in crockpots RUMPROASTS
Falls into line OBEYS
Fat unit GRAM
Fix SPAY
Fluorescent candy? HIGHLIGHTERPEZ
Foamy mugful LATTE
Front-wheel alignment TOEIN
Funny Poehler AMY
Garrulous Garrison KEILLOR
Gather REAP
Giant who made 'The Catch,' 1954 MAYS
Glut SATE
Goal of phishing SCAM
God, with 'the' CREATOR
Golf great Ballesteros SEVE
Goose egg ZIP
Häagen-___ DAZS
Hags, e.g UGLIES
Hapless Roman ruler? EMPERORZERO
Hit ___ note ASOUR
It entered circulation in 2002 EURO
It's an imposition LEVY
Jewelry setting COLLET
Clues Answers
Kind of colony ANT
Kind of tape MASKING
Land of King George Tupou V TONGA
Leonine movie star of old LAHR
Less fortunate POORPEOPLE
Lifted STOLE
Like some chickens FREERUN
Materialize APPEAR
Mea ___ CULPA
Memorable mission ALAMO
Mil. educators ROTC
Mirror image SELF
Mosquito protection MESH
My, in Bretagne MES
Not consent SAYNO
O.T.B. conveniences TVS
October haul TREATS
Offered a shoulder to cry on, say SOLACED
Often-parched gully WADI
Outstanding DUE
Over again TWICE
Pale yellow-shelled sea creature? MAIZELOBSTER
Person with a headset, maybe HAM
Picks up HEARS
Pittsburgh-based food giant HEINZ
Polyphemus, to Odysseus CAPTOR
Possible lagoon entrance INLET
Post-solstice celebration YULE
Promise of a sort IOU
Quiz bowl lover, say NERD
Register, to a Brit ENROL
Result of being badly beaned? GREATDAZE
Return address info SENDER
Reviewers' comments on book jackets, typically RAVES
Scavenging Southern food fish MUDCAT
Scraping kitchen gadget with nothing in it? EMPTYZESTER
Serious GRAVE
Sheltered ALEE
Show shock, in a way REEL
Slender fish EELS
Soprano Fleming RENEE
St. Paul's architect WREN
Stanch STEM
Star-struck entourage GROUPIES
Stockpile AMASS
Subj. of the 2005 Pulitzer-winning book 'Ghost Wars' CIA
Swamp MIRE
Take a whack at ATTEMPT
Taser for children? KIDZAPPER
That babies come from a 53-Across, e.g MYTH
The ___ Owl, 'L.A. Confidential' coffee shop NITE
They can be prying or crying EYES
Things to think about IDEAS
Timeline segments ERAS
Tiny-scissors holder ETUI
Tipping point? JAR
Trickle SEEP
Turkish V.I.P AGA
Unemployed persons with full-time jobs HOMEMAKERS
Vast, old-style ENORM
Very, informally MEGA
View the effects of a big lunch in court? SEEJUSTICEDOZE
Visually transfixed AGAZE
Vlasic pickles mascot STORK
When repeated, name in old Hollywood ZSA
Where the Baha'i faith originated IRAN
Year the Paris Métro opened MCM
___ in ink IAS
___ Meir Tower, Israel's first skyscraper SHALOM