New York Times - Mar 20 2008

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Clues Answers
$hopping season? XMAS
'Horrors!' OHNO
'So ___?' SOON
'The Big Trail' or 'The Big Stampede' OATER
'___ certainly do not!' NOI
1950s-'70s Chevy BELAIR
A while ago ONCE
Abbr. before a date ESTD
Acquisition of the U.S. in the Spanish-American War GUAM
Animal in the 2005 film 'Madagascar' LEMUR
Aphrodisiac, perhaps POTION
Apply EXERT
Bells and whistles, say ALARMS
Bestow AWARD
Big kid? GOAT
Buck ___, first African-American coach in Major League Baseball ONEIL
Burns and Cowper BARDS
Campus digs DORMROOM
Cattle-herding canine CORGI
Cellar stock WINES
Cheerful, proud, powerful sort, it's said LEO
Decision-making diagram TREE
Displayed audacity DARED
Do trailers? REMI
Doleful air DIRGE
Donkey ___ KONG
Doonesbury's daughter in 'Doonesbury' ALEX
Dove PEACENIK
Downed EATEN
Each state, symbolically STAR
Encounters MEETS
Fire starter? PYRO
Fitch of Abercrombie & Fitch EZRA
Hit the limit MAXOUT
Holmes of 'Dawson's Creek' KATIE
In the least ATALL
Issue pikes and poleaxes, e.g. ARM
Clues Answers
Italian sweetie CARA
Jump and a twist AXEL
Like some poorly washed windows STREAKED
Locale of the highways H1 and H2 OAHU
Make up one's mind OPT
Mid-Atlantic border town portmanteau DELMARDELAWARE
Milk dispenser TEAT
Minestrone morsels ORZO
More foxy SLYER
Nighttime scavenger, informally COON
Not of the cloth LAIC
Palooka PUG
Plains border town portmanteau KANORADOKANSAS
Pressing need? IRON
Raptor's perch AERIE
Run (out of) DRUM
Sch. of the Runnin' Rebels UNLV
Served to perfection? ACED
Sit heavily PLOP
Skin So Soft maker AVON
Sound of silver striking crystal TING
Source for an outburst NOVA
South-central border town portmanteau TEXARKANATEXAS
South-of-the-border border town portmanteau MEXICALIMEXICO
Straight up NEAT
Sugar ___, Marilyn Monroe's role in 'Some Like It Hot' KANE
Switzerland's ___ Leman LAC
Takeout alternative TVDINNER
Te-___ cigars AMO
Team letters SWAT
The Putumayo River forms part of its northern border PERU
Tic-tac-toe choice XORO
To ___ (just so) ATEE
Trolled SANG
Two bells, in a sailor's middle watch ONEAM
Up to TIL
Usher to the parlor SEEIN