New York Times - Sep 21 2008

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Clues Answers
'Beau ___' GESTE
'Malcolm in the Middle' boy REESE
'On Language' columnist SAFIRE
'The Da Vinci Code' scholar Sir ___ Teabing LEIGH
'The Divine Comedy,' for Dante MAGNUMOPUS
'The Grapes of Wrath' family JOADS
'___ Perpetua' (Idaho's motto) ESTO
1950s-'70s TV host PAAR
Alarm clock button SNOOZE
Appetite whetter SAMPLE
Bank postings CDRATES
Bearlike URSINE
Behind INAHOLE
Being debated ATISSUE
Beloved figure in England QUEENMOTHER
Big name in auto parts ACDELCO
Big tournament OPEN
Biological dividing wall SEPTUM
Blade in sports OAR
Brief indulgence SPREE
Broadcasters, e.g. MEDIA
Card game played to 61 SPADECASINO
Cause of worry lines STRESS
Certain flower girl NIECE
Certain photo caption AFTER
China's Zhou ENLAI
City and county of central California MADERA
City with the world's first telephone directory (1878) NEWHAVEN
Classic theater name RIALTO
Combined ONE
Condense again, as an article RETRIM
Connections INS
Coup d'___ (quick glance) OEIL
Cover many subjects? REIGN
Cy Young candidates' stats ERAS
Deli order REUBEN
Difficult situation HOTSEAT
Don't believe it FISHSTORY
Drapery material CHINTZ
Dropped off FELLASLEEP
Duds APPAREL
Dumped out SPILT
Eating sound CHOMP
Egyptian crosses ANKHS
Enzyme in some yeasts LACTASE
Eve ___, 'The Vagina Monologues' monologist ENSLER
Extremely pleasing, in slang FABU
Favored one side or the other LEANED
Fraternity member ELK
French subjects? TENSES
German river EDER
Get divorced ENDIT
Ghostlike PALE
Google results URLS
Had work looming? WOVE
Hair color AUBURN
High jump need BAR
It's often punched on a keypad PIN
Italy's Reggia di ___ (royal palace) CASERTA
Item marked in pounds CHEQUE
Kind of fin DORSAL
Kon-Tiki material BALSA
Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy org. NBA
Laugh start HAR
Launches DEBUTS
Letters on a brandy bottle VSO
Levelheaded SANE
Liberal LEFTWING
Longtime news inits. UPI
Loose overcoat RAGLAN
Clues Answers
Lots ATON
Loyally following TRUETO
Lumber supplier WOODLOT
Major diamond exporter ANGOLA
Marine predator EEL
Mens ___ (guilty mind) REA
Mil. authority CMD
More spooky EERIER
No-tell motel visit TRYST
Nobodies ZEROS
Novelist who wrote 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' OATES
Nuts ZANIES
Occupied INUSE
Officer in 'Alice's Restaurant' OBIE
Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle LEADDETECTIVES
Online reading EZINE
Only U.S. vice president born in Maryland AGNEW
Opposite of guerra PAZ
Org. that has its benefits SSA
Pantry array MASONJARS
Paris's Parc ___ Princes DES
Persian Gulf emirate DUBAI
Petrol purchase LITRE
Pizza ___ HUT
Poet whose last words were 'Of course [God] will forgive me; that's his business' HEINE
Potato choice MASHED
Predictors SEERS
Prefix with centric HELIO
Prefix with freak ECO
Psychiatric visit SESSION
Quaint letter opener TOSIR
Raw bar offering STEAMER
Reader's goal PART
Record producer who published the diary 'A Year With Swollen Appendices' ENO
Redeem CASHIN
River that rises in Cantabria EBRO
Rushing ONATEAR
Sacred places SANCTA
Safeguards ARMORS
Salad morsel BEAN
San Luis ___ OBISPO
School in Madison, N.J. DREWUNIVERSITY
Scoundrels MEANIES
Seward-to-Fairbanks dir. NNE
Singer Corinne Bailey ___ RAE
Sitting with one's hand on one's chin, e.g. POSE
Sixth-century year DLI
Southern legume COWPEA
Stewpots OLLAS
Suffix with cyan- IDE
T-shirt size: Abbr. LGE
The Mormons, initially LDS
The shakes DTS
There's one for dance MUSE
Tolkien creatures ENTS
Track-and-field event HAMMERTHROW
Trig angle ARCSINE
Turned right GEED
Unlikely to be Miss America HOMELY
Upbraid YELLAT
Vacation arrangement RENTAL
What eds. read MSS
Wife, informally MISSUS
Window washer's boo-boo SMEAR
Winning hand in blackjack ACETEN
Word with smart or mind SET
Work site? INTRAY
Yemeni money RIAL
___ avis RARA
___ rancheros HUEVOS