New York Times - Jul 6 2014

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Clues Answers
'America's most innovative company' prior to its bankruptcy in 2001 ENRON
'Come ___?' (Italian greeting) STA
'Essays of ___' ELIA
'I should ___ die with pity, / To see another thus': Shak EEN
'O Sole ___' MIO
'See?' GETIT
'Stay out' NOENTRY
'The Hobbit' figure ORC
'The Tempest' spirit ARIEL
Absorbed ATE
Ancient walkway STOA
Any knight SIR
As it happens LIVE
Author LeShan EDA
Beginner for a while? ERST
Best Actor nominee for 'Venus,' 2006 OTOOLE
Better to a rapper, worse to a patient ILLER
Big copier maker RICOH
Birth places? UTERI
Bit of flimflam LIE
Bit of spawn FISHEGG
Blood-related HEMIC
Blue UNHAPPY
Book jacket staple BIO
Brick transporter HOD
Brilliance ECLAT
Camus, to Sartre, for many years AMI
City whose name was the source of the word 'sherry' XERES
Cloth for a man of the cloth? ROBE
Counterpart of Aurora EOS
Country whose national currency is the U.S. dollar ECUADOR
Crayola color akin to fern SEAGREEN
Crowd-___ PLEASER
Demean ABASE
Enunciate slowly INTONE
Farm female SOW
Farm refrain EIEIO
Farrow of MSNBC RONAN
Film units TAKES
First U.S. multimillionaire ASTOR
Fixed things? ASSETS
Flynn of old film ERROL
Four-time N.B.A. All-Star Pau ___ GASOL
French evenings SOIRS
G.O.P. org RNC
Gator's tail? ADE
General servant FACTOTUM
Get an ___ (77-Down) AON
Get to IRRITATE
Giant Mel and Pirate Ed OTTS
God: It DIO
Gossip YENTA
Greenhorn NEOPHYTE
He prophesied the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem MICAH
Health supplement co GNC
Herbal Essences shampoo company CLAIROL
High level in karate BROWNBELT
Husband one's energy, say RESTUP
Immigrant's subj ESL
Initialism in a Beatles title USSR
Inked TATTOOED
It handles lettres POSTE
It may have a pet name IDTAG
It's bound to be turned PAGE
Italian province or its capital ASTI
James Douglas Muir ___ (TV host's birth name) LENO
Jan. 1 till now YTD
Jewish month NISAN
Justice Kagan ELENA
Clues Answers
Land's end? SCAPE
Last: Abbr ULT
Later INAWHILE
Lawyer who wrote 65-Across FRANCISSCOTTKEY
Like mascara in the rain SMEARY
Locale for this puzzle's shaded squares STAFF
Long arm RIFLE
Looking up ROSY
Louvre pyramid designer PEI
Menace named after an African river EBOLA
Metal worker? ROBOT
Mission that 24-Across was on when he wrote 65-Across PRISONEREXCHANGE
Money in hand COLDCASH
MS. managers EDS
N.Y.C. subway inits IRT
New World monkey TITI
Old car company based in Lansing, Mich REO
Old Nick SATAN
Oomph PEP
Oscar-winning Patricia NEAL
Overlapping fugue motifs STRETTI
Peeling potatoes, perhaps ONKP
Penn station? IVYLEAGUE
Performer who gave a memorable rendition of 65-Across in 1991 WHITNEYHOUSTON
Periodic table abbr ATWT
Player in orange and black ORIOLE
Political writer Matt BAI
Princess played by Naomi Watts DIANA
River isle AIT
River of western Germany SAAR
Sagittarius, with 'the' ARCHER
Salad green ESCAROLE
Salle de bain fixture BIDET
Scope AMBIT
Second-rate BLIST
See 79-Down ACE
Serving edges ADINS
Setting of James Clavell's 'Gai-Jin' YOKOHAMA
Sidekick of TV and film TONTO
Skiing destination Val d'___ ISERE
Some American Indian homes ADOBES
Some natl. leaders PMS
Sound of expiration AHH
Sounded like a fan WHIRRED
Speed HASTE
Sports org. founded in 1906 NCAA
Standoffish ICY
Star in the Summer Triangle ALTAIR
Sun: Sp SOL
Sunshine cracker HIHO
Symbols of change DELTAS
Tarry LAG
Texter's qualification IMO
Their, singularly HISORHER
They're thrown in decathlons DISCI
This puzzle's theme, whose first notes are indicated by shaded squares THESTARSPANGLEDBANNER
Throw up LOFT
Title name in a 2000 Eminem hit STAN
Vanilla PLAIN
Wanna-___ BES
What the curious may do PEERIN
What the music to 65-Across was, originally BRITISHPUBSONG
Where 24-Across was inspired to write 65-Across BALTIMOREHARBOR
Where Michael Jordan played college ball: Abbr UNC
Winking, maybe SLY
Wrinkle-free, say NOIRON
Year 24-Across wrote 65-Across EIGHTEENFOURTEEN
___ Wolfsheim, gambler in 'The Great Gatsby' MEYER
___-Magnon CRO