New York Times - Oct 2 2008

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Clues Answers
'Big Sur' writer, 1962 KEROUAC
'War and Peace,' e.g. EPICNOVEL
1980s craze starter RUBIK
Abbr. atop some e-mails BCC
Actress Dunaway FAYE
Actress Popplewell of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' ANNA
Anxious baseball player at the plate? BATTWIRLER
Barn young 'un CALF
Big party FETE
Blood GORE
Broad valleys DALES
Business partner ASSOCIATE
Campaign target VOTER
Certain resident of Yemen ADENI
Cheering word RAH
Chinese secret society TONG
Choir section TENORS
Contents of some pits TAR
Directs RUNS
Draconian STERN
Duty TARIFF
Five-spot ABE
Flat sound SSSS
Flood of ideas? BRAINSURGE
Great literature it's not SMUT
Harbinger OMEN
High-school disrupters GANGS
Hogwarts stick WAND
Home of Sault Ste. Marie: Abbr. ONT
Horace who founded the New York Tribune GREELEY
Hospital procedure, for short ANGIO
In a poem, it 'perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door' RAVEN
It may be held at a 39-Down MAYO
Land of laughs? YUKTERRITORY
Lit, as a match STRUCK
Loser at the dice table SNAKEEYES
Newspaper piece OPED
Clues Answers
Nickelodeon's explorer DORA
Observer EYER
One who wants you to put away everything he sets out CHEF
One-named New Age musician YANNI
Out of order DOWN
Out of whack AWRY
Part of a military band TUBA
Pays a visit DROPSIN
Popular dates for dates SATURDAYS
Powdered cleaning agent BORAX
Preinterview purchase, maybe NEWSUIT
Product promoted as having both 'beauty' and 'brains' IMAC
Provoke RILEUP
Quickly APACE
Ready PREP
Road trip events AWAYGAMES
Sea urchin, at a sushi bar UNI
Shop with 53-Across DELI
Sign above a luau buffet? PICKYOURPOIS
Sing like Mel Tormé SCAT
Slightly ahead UPONE
Suffix with insist ENT
Supermarket bagful ICE
Takes the starch out of DEPRESSES
Talk like Daffy LISP
They may be seen on slides AMOEBAS
Two-time Time Man of the Year (and a hint to 17-, 27-, 41- and 54-Across) NIXON
Use cue cards READ
Wallpaper and such DECOR
Washed out PALE
Where to see 'bombs bursting' INAIR
Working factory, e.g. ASSET
Worst in the worst way TROUNCE
Zealot's group CULT
___ dixit IPSE
___ in victory VAS
___ premium ATA