New York Times - Nov 18 2007

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Clues Answers
'Excusez-___!' MOI
'Good gracious!' EGAD
'Man is by nature a ___ animal': Aristotle POLITICAL
'Peer Gynt' playwright IBSEN
'Ready ___ ...' ORNOT
'___ at Large,' 2003 Fox sitcom WANDA
'___ Dance' (David Bowie album) LETS
1978 disco hit YMCA
Alexander the Great's ambition? TOSLAYTHEEAST
At a slow pace POKILY
At great length ONANDON
Author of 'Trinity' URIS
Backup singer's syllable OOH
Bad stuff to microwave METAL
Bandleader Shaw ARTIE
Barograph reading PRESSURE
Bass part FIN
Begin using ADOPT
Beguiles LEADSON
Black and tan ingredient ALE
Boxed-off map section INSET
Breaks GAPS
Bring on board HIRE
Brisk step TROT
Charles Lindbergh's wife ANNE
Christine of 'Chicago Hope' LAHTI
Contemporary of Virgil OVID
Creditor's collection IOUS
Crumb carrier ANT
Designed jeans? PLOTTEDPANTS
Discharges EGESTS
Do damage to MAR
Draw in LURE
Dresses down YELLSAT
Drug ___ CZAR
DVD box set, possibly SERIES
Early collaborator with Eastwood LEONE
El ___ (Peruvian volcano) MISTI
ESP, remote viewing, and such PSI
Eton collar material LINEN
Excitement ADO
Favoritism BIAS
Figure skater Cohen SASHA
Fish-worshiping groups? CODCULTS
Flat remover TIREIRON
Fleshy-leaved shrubs ALOES
Following behind INTOW
For all to hear ALOUD
French business partner, maybe FRERE
Gather INFER
Gets one's food on a tray, say DINESIN
Ginnie ___ MAE
Glinting flecks in granite MICA
Good news for some prisoners STAYS
Greek god of ridicule MOMUS
Hall-of-Famer Dawson LEN
How to avoid getting tipsy on hard liquor? PACEYOURBELTS
Iconic Anne Baxter role EVE
Immature BABYISH
Insect egg NIT
Islamic chieftain EMIR
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury PEERS
Lane on Broadway NATHAN
Leading the field ONTOP
Leaves gasping STUNS
Leaves in hot water TEA
Like Kashmir rugs ORIENTAL
Little green man YODA
Long, long time EON
Macho beer-drinker's outerwear? COATOFMANLYCOORS
Clues Answers
Market pessimist BEAR
Membranous structure SAC
Mental acuity WITS
Moved two chessmen in one turn CASTLED
Mr. Bean ORSON
Much of Anaïs Nin's work EROTICA
Music genre POP
Nail holder TOE
Nebraska town, named after an Indian tribe, featured in 'Lonesome Dove' OGALLALA
Not feeling 100 percent ILL
Novelist Jamaica ___ KINCAID
Oil company in a 1999 merger MOBIL
Oil spill? SEEPINGSLICKNESS
One of the five stages of grief ANGER
One of the Forsytes in 'The Forsyte Saga' IRENE
One who's crazy for a sharp-dressed man? FOPLOVER
One-dimensional LINEAR
Parade-ground command HALT
Part of firefighter attire BOOT
Party to many a civil union GAY
Paw MITT
Peel PARE
Perceptive person's detection NUANCE
Performance that takes a second DUET
Pitts of silent film ZASU
Place to hole up LAIR
Popular sleep aid UNISOM
Posted SENT
Powell's 'The Thin Man' co-star LOY
Problem for a sweaty-handed Tarzan? VINYSLIDING
Producer of the Keystone Cops films SENNETT
Quite often ALOT
Revolution-era loyalist TORY
Run away from chewing-tobacco users? FLEESPITTERS
Say what isn't so LIE
Schedule-keeping org. IRS
Scotland's Summer ___ ISLES
Sealant TAR
Seductress VAMP
See 94-Down BERLIOZ
Shakespearean prince who's handsome and muscular? STUDLYHAL
Ship launched from Iolcus ARGO
Short-spoken CURT
Show signs of falling TEETER
Some hieroglyphic characters ANKHS
Some web site banners ADS
Soothes ALLAYS
Sportswear brand PUMA
Stole, perhaps FUR
Sweet talk COO
Tabletop decoration INLAY
Take up the entire sofa LOLL
Technique involving thickly applied paint IMPASTO
Telegraphy signal DASH
Theories ISMS
They're not positive NOES
Thin and crisp WAFERY
Throw out CHUCK
Took a big step STRODE
Trawler's trailer NET
Tridactyl bird EMU
Unable to see much SANDBLIND
Weekly service MASS
What a line of dots may signify STET
What a magician might do with a big saw? HALVETHEGAL
With 52-Down, 'Symphonie Fantastique' composer HECTOR
Words mouthed to a camera HIMOM
You might hear it going up and down MUZAK
___ admin (computer techie, for short) SYS
___ de guerre NOM