New York Times - Nov 1 2012

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Clues Answers
'Backdraft' crime ARSON
'Take ___ breath' ADEEP
'Tales of the City' novelist MAUPIN
'___ Beso' ESO
'___ Mio' OSOLE
'___ Miz' LES
A current flows into it ANODE
Almost reaches NEARS
Aquarium fish TETRA
Beauty pageant judging criterion POISE
Brother of Moses AARON
Bygone gas brand SOHIO
Children of ___ (descendants of Jacob) ISRAEL
Comparatively neat TIDIER
Composer Dominick whose name means 'silver' in Italian ARGENTO
Declined, as stocks SLID
Drawer at a doctor's office? SYRINGE
Egyptian headdress feature ASP
Embarassing spelling mistake? ONER
Enzyme suffix ASE
Feds GMEN
Figure in Raphael's 'The School of Athens' PLATO
Fountain name TREVI
Get an ___ effort EFOR
Get one's point across? JAB
Goldsmith, for one ARTISAN
Iraq war danger, for short IED
Isl. south of Corsica SAR
Lib ___ (U.K. party member) DEM
Like 'Wedding Crashers' or 'Bridesmaids' RRATED
Like bright red cardinals MALE
Make-up person? LIAR
Mangle MAUL
Model IDEAL
Musical syllable before and after 'da' DUM
N.F.L. record-holder for consecutive starts FAVRE
New York's ___ Island STATEN
Not moved from the original location INSITU
Organic compound with a double-bonded oxygen KETONE
Painter's aid LADDER
Part of a waste reduction strategy REUSE
Clues Answers
Part of E.N.T EAR
Princess known as the Defender of the Elijans XENA
Program presenter USHER
Racket DIN
See 1-Across ANDAL
See 1-Across KSOXS
See 17-Across GAMES
See 17-Across TRONI
See 34-Across EMAN
See 34-Across OMETH
See 45-Across URRI
See 45-Across ULAR
See 64-Across HER
See 64-Across AFLET
See 73-Across ARBON
See 73-Across OPY
Sign with an arrow ENTER
Some French? DES
Something to contemplate NAVEL
Spanish appetizer TAPA
Spells HEXES
Stand for a sitting EASEL
Suffix with arbor or ether EAL
Third of November? VEE
Times or Century FONT
Toward the back AREAR
Tributary of the High Rhine AARE
Uncool NERDY
Urban cacophony BEEPS
Ute or Cree AMERIND
What's put before the carte? ALA
Wing it ADLIB
With 18- & 19-Across, Toys 'R' Us department ELE
With 37- & 39-Across, Fredric March's last film THEI
With 4- & 9-Across, sports news of 1919 BLA
With 47- & 48-Across, like some student activities EXTRA
With 67- & 69-Across, role that garnered 12 consecutive unsuccessful Emmy nominations, 1985-96 JESSI
With 74- & 75-Across, 'invisible' part of a distribution list ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme BLIND
___ column (construction piece) LALLY
___ Gallimard, protagonist of 'M. Butterfly' RENE
___ Lanka SRI