New York Times - Jun 9 2008

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Clues Answers
'Are you in ___?' OROUT
'Man, it's cold!' BRR
'Maybe later' NOTYET
'Split' soup ingredients PEAS
'Wheel of Fortune' purchase ANE
'___ Mine' (Beatles song) IME
*Creation made with a bucket and shovel SANDCASTLE
*Hose company hookup FIREPLUG
*One who puts the pedal to the metal SPEEDDEMON
*Sightseer's guide TOURISTMAP
*The worst player wins it BOOBYPRIZE
1950, on a cornerstone MCML
50 percent HALF
Arizona tribe HOPI
Beam in a bar? JIM
Beloved of Elizabeth I ESSEX
Big do AFRO
British society magazine TATLER
Church official DEACON
Cornell of Cornell University EZRA
CPR provider EMT
Crazy like ___ AFOX
Cupid AMOR
D.D.E.'s political rival AES
Fortuneteller's card TAROT
Gentlemen: Abbr. MESSRS
Goya's 'The Naked ___' MAJA
Grandma ___, American folk artist MOSES
Has high hopes ASPIRES
Here today, ___ tomorrow GONE
Hooded jacket PARKA
Iffy INDOUBT
Inside info POOP
Jai ___ ALAI
Long, long sentence LIFE
Longtime Yankees skipper TORRE
Mall unit STORE
Mozart's '___ fan tutte' COSI
Clues Answers
Muscle malady CRAMP
Necklace fasteners CLASPS
Once around the track LAP
One of the U.S. Virgin Islands STCROIX
Opposite of paleo- NEO
Passover meals SEDERS
PC key ALT
Pet adoption org. SPCA
Plus ALSO
Praise LAUD
Predatory types SHARKS
Quits yapping SHUTSUP
Ralph Lauren label POLO
Retro cut SHAG
River of Hades STYX
Saucy PERT
Second word in many a fairy tale UPON
Shenanigan ANTIC
Skin soother ALOE
Slight improvements in business activity UPTICKS
Solvers' shouts AHAS
Songwriter Gershwin IRA
Spanish wine beverage SANGRIA
Sport in which belts are awarded KARATE
Stinks to high heaven REEKS
Suspicious LEERY
Swaps TRADES
They may be thrown into the ring HATS
Three-card scam MONTE
Valuable rocks ORE
Variety ILK
Vintage vehicles REOS
Warning cry ... or a hint to the beginnings of the answers to the five starred clues ITSATRAP
Where a horseshoe goes HOOF
Whole ENTIRE
Yale of Yale University ELIHU
___ Gay (W.W. II bomber) ENOLA
___ sapiens HOMO