New York Times - Dec 22 2008

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Clues Answers
'But of course!' NATCH
'Get going!,' and a hint for the starts of 17-, 24-, 51- and 62-Across HOPTOIT
'Oh, woe!' ALAS
'Right on!' YES
'The loneliest number,' in a Three Dog Night song ONE
'What's ___ for me?' INIT
A large part of a waitress's income TIPS
Balloon filler AIR
Batsman at a wicket, say CRICKETPLAYER
Bedouin, e.g. ARAB
Bits of fluff LINT
Boring routines RUTS
Breads with pockets PITAS
Bugler's bedtime tune TAPS
Carrier to Tel Aviv ELAL
Chamomile product HERBTEA
Channel for football and basketball games ESPN
Computer attachment MOUSE
Confess (to) OWNUP
Crowded, frenzied gatherings MOBSCENES
Deface MAR
Designer Schiaparelli ELSA
Done for KAPUT
Extremities ENDS
Felipe or Moises of baseball ALOU
First in a John Updike novel series RABBITRUN
Fish-sticks fish COD
Giggly laugh TEHEE
Give forth EMIT
Grenade filler TNT
Gross NASTY
Grp. in which many of the leaders wear robes OPEC
Hearty steak TBONE
Holder of an unfair trial KANGAROOCOURT
House mate? SENATE
Household downsizing event TAGSALE
However, briefly THO
Humorist Bombeck ERMA
Hydrotherapy provider SPA
Clues Answers
Info on a pill bottle DOSE
Israeli dance HORA
Knotty swelling NODE
Large brown algae KELP
Large feather PLUME
Little foot warmer BOOTEE
Little Jack Horner's dessert PIE
Long-necked waders EGRETS
Meas. of engine speed RPM
Middle school stage, commonly PUBERTY
Numbers yet to be crunched RAWDATA
One enrolled in obedience school DOG
Othello's undoer IAGO
Out with the fleet ASEA
Peter the pepper picker PIPER
Places for holsters HIPS
Queenly role for Liz CLEO
Receptacles for tobacco chewers SPITTOONS
Restaurant posting MENU
Rocket trajectory ARC
Root used for poi TARO
Sahara irrigator NILE
Sidewalk Santa worker, e.g. TEMP
Signs of decay ODORS
Site of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum HANOI
Skirt with a flare ALINE
Spunk METTLE
Theodore Roosevelt, to Eleanor UNCLE
Tree popular in street names ELM
Turn down DENY
Twin Mary-Kate or Ashley OLSEN
Umbrellalike fungus TOADSTOOL
Unit of electricity AMP
Vagrant TRAMP
Vex ANNOY
Vice president Quayle DAN
Visit SEE
Washington and McKinley: Abbr. MTS
Zest GUSTO