New York Times - Sep 30 2007

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Clues Answers
'A Confederacy of Dunces' author TOOLE
'American Pie' actor Jason BIGGS
'Fantastic Mr. Fox' author, 1970 DAHL
'I'm game!' LETS
'Myself was stirring ___ the break of day': Shak. ERE
'The Family Circus' cartoonist KEANE
'TV Funhouse' show, for short SNL
*Barnyard fixture WATERINGTROUGH
*Drifter WANDERINGSOUL
*Ice hockey penalty GAMEMISCONDUCT
*Professional courtesy in pricing TRADEDISCOUNT
*Sign of coming danger GATHERINGCLOUDS
*Somewhat in jest HALFSERIOUSLY
*Time during a graveyard shift LATENIGHTHOUR
*Tongue-in-cheek FACETIOUS
*What 'dele' means TAKEITOUT
1965 movie '___ What You Did' ISAW
4-Down's brothers NEPHEWS
Actress/spokeswoman Belafonte SHARI
Ad follower HOC
Ancient Greek region AEOLIA
Annual literary award EDGAR
Arch sites SHOES
Backing FOR
Banquet holder URN
Beach bash LUAU
Biotite and phlogopite MICAS
Brings to naught NEGATES
Bygone U.S. gas brand ESSO
Came down ALIT
Card catalog abbr. ETAL
Carded, say IDED
Chiantis, e.g. VINOS
Christopher Morley novel 'Kitty ___' FOYLE
City of New Orleans operator AMTRAK
Colorless, flammable gas ETHYLENE
Companion of a spade HOE
Connections INS
Corkscrew, e.g. OPENER
Cote d'___ AZUR
Cousin of Spot FIDO
Crossword solver, presumably YOU
Dan ___, former N.B.A. star and coach ISSEL
Dashed RAN
Day-___ GLO
Derisive gesture SNOOK
Designer Cassini OLEG
Development sites UTERI
Dinner spread OLEO
Does just all right GETSBY
English playwright Ayckbourn ALAN
Exclamations of exasperation OYS
Family V.I.P.'s MAS
Feminist Germaine GREER
First word spoken to earth from the lunar surface HOUSTON
Fivesome seen in order in the answer to each starred clue AEIOU
Flair ELAN
Food label abbr. NTWT
Footballer-turned-politician Swann LYNN
Frog's place THROAT
Future residents INTERNS
General ___ chicken TSOS
Give a come-hither look OGLE
Go-go-go ENERGETIC
Grp. conducting Operation Deny Flight NATO
Home of 'The Diane Rehm Show' NPR
Hungry lion, e.g. ROARER
Imitator APER
Inn's offering ROOM
Israeli statesman Barak EHUD
Clues Answers
Italian poet Torquato ___ TASSO
Jazzy Anita ODAY
Jewish crêpe BLINTZE
Key holder?: Abbr. FLA
Lack of variety TEDIUM
Landlord, e.g. OWNER
Lick again REWET
Maker of Bug-B-Gon ORTHO
Mame, e.g. AUNTIE
Misbehave ACTUP
Motrin rival ANACIN
New Hampshire senator John SUNUNU
Newts EFTS
Nielsens TVRATINGS
Not go by one's own locomotion RIDE
Not skip a beat? PATROL
Nothing doing? IDLE
Novice, maybe NUN
Observed LOOKEDON
Oiled, in a manner ANOINTED
Old French coins SOUS
One-liners GAGS
One-to-one, e.g. TIED
Org. that inspects factories OSHA
Patron saint of metalworkers ELOI
Periods in prison, e.g. ORDEALS
Philosopher Wittgenstein LUDWIG
Pivots SLUES
Pod that's sometimes pickled OKRA
Poet who wrote 'The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on' OMAR
Purges RIDS
Put away for good ICE
Rampaging ARIOT
Relative of 26-Across NIECE
Religious recluse ANCHORITE
Repeated cry at a beer blast CHUG
Rocky Mtn. highs? ELEVS
Role in 'The Color Purple' CELIE
Roman historian LIVY
Saint-___, capital of France's Loire department ETIENNE
Sea of ___ GALILEE
Shady sorts? TREES
Sharp bend DOGLEG
Side flap EAR
Silas of the Continental Congress DEANE
Simile's center ASA
Small bark YIP
Some cliff dwellers HOPI
Special case? ETUI
Starting point EDEN
Stephen Jay ___, author of 'The Panda's Thumb' GOULD
Surgically excise RESECT
Tears to pieces RENDS
They may be high before a competition HOPES
Thompson and Lazarus EMMAS
Tin: Prefix STANNO
To be handled by INCAREOF
To-___ DOS
Top-notch ACE
Toy company whose name is an anagram of 124-Across LEGO
Unaccompanied STAG
Unbroken INTACT
Uneducated boor YAHOO
Upshot NETRESULT
Word with bar or color CODE
Wraps on stage BOAS
___ moss PEAT
___ nitrate AMYL
___-eyed DOE
___-pointe (ballet position) DEMI