New York Times - Oct 17 2011

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Clues Answers
'99 Luftballons' singer NENA
'Animal House' party costume TOGA
'How about it?' WHATSAY
'Regrettably ...' ALAS
17th-century diarist Samuel PEPYS
18-wheeler SEMI
1930s-'40s prez FDR
500 sheets of paper REAM
Alan who played Hawkeye ALDA
All-night dance party RAVE
Astronaut Armstrong and others NEILS
Began eating DUGIN
Beyond repair KAPUT
Blues player's instrument? SADSAX
Burning emergency signals FLARES
Catch Groucho while fishing? LANDMARX
Cereal that doesn't really taste like anything? BLANKCHEX
Chaotic battles MELEES
Common cowboy nickname TEX
Completely confused ATSEA
Convent residents NUNS
Corn bread PONE
Creator of the game Missile Command ATARI
Cupid, to the Greeks EROS
Dances to Hawaiian music HULAS
Dismissed from 'The Apprentice' FIRED
Easily cowed MEEK
Engine type pioneered by the Buick Special VSIX
Expected to arrive DUE
Fabric that's glossy on one side SATIN
Falafel holders PITAS
Fateful day for Caesar IDES
Feudin' with, say AGIN
Formal wear for one's belly? TUMMYTUX
French farewell ADIEU
Got out of bed AROSE
Hard-to-please celeb DIVA
Helmsley known as the Queen of Mean LEONA
Clues Answers
Islamic decree FATWA
June 6, 1944 DDAY
Laboratory maze runners RATS
Large leaf on which a frog may repose LILYPAD
Laugh track sounds HAHAS
Leather-wearing TV princess XENA
Left the scene WENT
Levy paid by white-collar workers? TIETAX
London art gallery TATE
Look after, as a bar TEND
Lumberjack's tool SAW
Manicurists treat them NAILS
Most sunburned REDDEST
New ___ (35-Across's program) DEAL
North Carolina university ELON
Numbers to be crunched DATA
Object thrown in a pub DART
Otherworldly glow AURA
Pastoral poem IDYL
Peck, pint or pound UNIT
Period of duty STINT
Plus column entry ASSET
Rampaged RANAMUCK
River of Hades STYX
Scrabble draw TILE
Scramble MIXUP
Sluggish from sedatives DOPY
Slumlord's building TENEMENT
Snakelike fish EEL
Spanish finger food TAPAS
Stratford-upon-___ AVON
Submits, as a manuscript SENDSIN
Teen girl's close chum, for short BFF
The 'E' in Q.E.D ERAT
Type used for emphasis: Abbr ITAL
Upscale marque owned by Toyota LEXUS
What an electric meter indicates USAGE
Wildcat that can't sit still? HYPERLYNX