New York Times - Dec 20 2007

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Clues Answers
'I' and 'M' in I. M. Pei: Abbr. INITS
'Miracle' team of 1969 METS
'Saint Joan' playwright SHAW
'Sovereign' SIRE
'Yowzer!' YIPES
... and, finally, the end of the explanation ASTHEENTRYSCLUE
... including this ... INTHEGRIDHASTHE
... still more ... SAMEFIRSTLETTER
Access for a collier ADIT
Actress Jessica ALBA
Adolescent outbreak ACNE
Aid in crime ABET
Allergic explosion ACHOO
Alternative to a Trac II ATRA
American or Delta route AIRWAY
An inventor's middle name ALVA
Anecdotal collection ANA
Appendage ARM
Arrive ___ agreement ATAN
Beginning for metric BARO
Busyness BUSTLE
Cool ___ CAT
Corleone portrayer CAAN
Director of the budget who became U.S. vice president DAWES
Discharges DOES
Ditsy DAFT
Enoch's great-great-grandfather ENOS
Espoused of Ahasuerus, in the Bible ESTHER
Exit's opposite ENTER
Experts at CPR EMTS
Explanation of this puzzle's theme ... EVERYENTRYTHATS
Fish orders FILETS
Flaunt, say, as muscles FLEX
Hermann who wrote 'Steppenwolf' HESSE
Insignificant amount IOTA
Inspirations IDEAS
Isolated French places ILES
Lady from south of the border LATINA
Clues Answers
Language organ LARYNX
Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Am I ___' LOSIN
Macintosh accessory MOUSE
Minute bit MOTE
Monument Valley sights MESAS
More than half MOST
Nautilus captain NEMO
Neither's partner NOR
Niggling criticism NIT
No lieutenant yet: Abbr. NCO
Norse goddess married to Balder NANNA
Not just casually interested NOSY
Oast OVEN
Offensive emanations ODORS
On which an arabesque is performed ONELEG
One may be rolled OAT
Orangish tones OCHRES
Ornamental stone ONYX
Oviedo stew OLLA
Peel PARE
Rapper MC ___ REN
Regrets RUES
Rent again RELET
Scharnhorst admiral of W.W. I SPEE
Shindig of sorts SOIREE
Sinatra tune '___ Funny That Way' SHES
Single-reed instrument SAX
Site of July 1944 fighting STLO
Sticks turned over a fire SPITS
They chase flies TROUT
Time to close a bar, maybe TWOAM
Tobacco smoke component TAR
Transmitter of cold war news TASS
Tube watcher's food holder TVTRAY
Utilized USED
Varnished surface, sometimes VENEER
Vessel for a florist VASE
You can see them at marinas YACHTS