New York Times - Sep 27 2011

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Clues Answers
'Lovely' Beatles girl RITA
'___ Doone' LORNA
'___ the season' TIS
*Area in front of a coop CHICKENYARD
*Braided floor covering ROPERUG
*Discover to be fibbing CATCHINALIE
*Elemental parts of human nature ANIMALINSTINCTS
*Modern school memento DIGITALYEARBOOK
*More than enough TOOMANY
Actor Baldwin ALEC
Actors Burns and Wynn EDS
Author Zora ___ Hurston NEALE
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Speaker TRIS
Baseball's Blue Moon ODOM
Beatle lover ONO
Bee follower CEE
Bon ___ AMI
Bosnian, e.g SLAV
Break from responsibilities, informally METIME
Character in a Beatles song THEWALRUS
Composer ___-Korsakov RIMSKY
Cornfield call CAW
Creator of the G.O.P. elephant NAST
Event with booths EXPO
Fair-hiring inits EEO
Fairies PIXIES
Former White House press secretary Fleischer ARI
France's Élysée, for one PALACE
German 'I' ICH
Grand Canyon part RIM
Guardian Angels' toppers BERETS
Hardened INURED
Hobbling, say LAME
Hoover or Oreck, for short VAC
It might be taken by a sailor LEAVE
Kit ___ (chocolate bars) KATS
Knock off END
Language suffix ESE
Larklike bird PIPIT
Clues Answers
Letter from Homer? ETA
Like a small farm, perhaps TENACRE
Loosey-goosey LAX
Medicine holder VIAL
Metal supports in skyscrapers IBEAMS
Mischief-maker IMP
More clever SLIER
More loved DEARER
Nick, say MAR
Noted 1964 convert to Islam ALI
O.R. figures RNS
One getting lots of doubles and home runs, say HITTER
One working with checks and balances, for short CPA
Opportunity, metaphorically DOOR
Opposed (to) AVERSE
Ore-Ida parent company HEINZ
Play about Capote TRU
Posh LUXE
Pres. when NATO was formed HST
Request inside (or outside?) a wine bar CAB
Rights advocacy grp ACLU
Sea eagle ERN
Some acids AMINOS
Some Saturns IONS
Sovereign lands ... or what are hidden in the answers to the six starred clues COUNTRIES
Sticky stuff GOOP
Strand MAROON
Susan of soaps LUCCI
Takeback, briefly REPO
The 'Y' in Y.S.L YVES
The Jewish people ZION
They may be hard to find at a tearjerker DRYEYES
This point forward HEREON
Walk ungracefully TODDLE
Wee, informally EENSY
When repeated, a noted panda LING
Wine: Prefix OEN
___ v. Wade ROE
___-European INDO