New York Times - Feb 1 2009

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Clues Answers
'54-40 or fight' candidate POLK
'An American Life' autobiographer REAGAN
'Bleah!' ICK
'Did I ___!' EVER
'Great Expectations' girl ESTELLA
'Have some!' TRYIT
'Holy cow!' EGAD
'I think we should say no' LETSNOT
'Kenilworth' author SCOTT
'My ___!' GOD
'No go' IXNAY
'You ___' (1982 Eddie Rabbitt hit) ANDI
*'That dress makes you look fat,' e.g.? OFFENSIVELINE
*Added comment? EXTRAPOINT
*Airline for Lucille? BALLCARRIER
*Caution when boiling a 60-Down? TWOMINUTEWARNING
*Chaperon's job? PASSINTERFERENCE
*Corned beef stains? HASHMARKS
*Onset of a lie? FALSESTART
*Rolling past a stop sign? ILLEGALMOTION
*Tersely edited epilogues? TIGHTENDS
*Where everyone wears beige? NEUTRALZONE
1980s hit-makers with a geographical name ASIA
1983 Streisand role YENTL
1993 triple-platinum Frank Sinatra album DUETS
5 for B or 6 for C ATNO
A law ___ itself UNTO
Agreeing (with) ATONE
Agronomists' samples SOILS
Alternative to cable DSL
Anther's place STAMEN
Asian appetizer SATAY
Avon and others STREAMS
Barber's emblem POLE
Barely defeats NIPS
Big shots? BELTS
Blockhead OAF
Board member EXEC
Boat steerers TILLERS
Boot option STEELTIP
Bound, in a way STAPLED
Branch ARM
Cab's ancestor HANSOM
Castigate CHASTISE
Come from ___ AFAR
Competitor of Chambers, for short OED
Cool HIP
Country singer Jackson WANDA
Cousin of an aster OXEYE
Daily meals BOARD
Decorated in ceramic, say TILED
Diminishes bit by bit ERODES
Dish name PETRI
Dwindle RUNLOW
Eero Saarinen, by birth FINN
Envoy LEGATE
Epoch ERA
European car OPEL
European tongue ERSE
F, monetarily FRANC
F, musically FORTE
Feudal superior LIEGE
Fire ZEAL
First pope called 'the Great' LEOI
Flavius's fire IGNIS
Flout DEFY
Fully constituted, as a session of Congress PLENARY
Go for the bronze? TAN
Godfather's voice, maybe RASP
Golden ___ AGER
Had down pat KNEW
Half-wit BOOB
Hall-of-Fame forward MIAHAMM
Have ___ with ANIN
Having gumption PLUCKY
Hispanic 'Sesame Street' character ROSITA
Holden's little brother in 'The Catcher in the Rye' ALLIE
Hollywood figure AGENT
Home of the War in the Pacific National Historic Park GUAM
How U.S. senators are elected ATLARGE
Inattention NEGLECT
It borders France IBERIA
It may be tapped KEG
It may come after you ARE
Clues Answers
Its stroke is 'as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired,' per Cleopatra DEATH
Just right APT
Kind of block LEGO
Kind of sequencing DNA
KOA campground user RVER
Lawyer's need CLIENT
Like movies and hotels RATED
Liquefied MOLTEN
Locales for some paintings CAVES
London Parliament series painter MONET
Loopholes OUTS
Lord, e.g. TITLE
Lovers FANCIERS
Meal in Nisan SEDER
Mech. ___ ENGR
Member of the mallow family OKRA
Might STRENGTH
Milk USE
Mini-whirlpool EDDY
Mogul negotiator SKIER
Month or year SPAN
Moran of 'Happy Days' ERIN
Mouth watering? SALIVA
Museum supporters EASELS
Name repeated in Woody Allen's '___ and ___' MELINDA
Natural do FRO
Noise at night SNORE
Not quite right OFF
Old 'Up, up and away' sloganeer TWA
Onslaught ASSAULT
Packing a punch POTENT
Pause REST
Pique SNIT
Pre-coll. exam SAT
Present opener? OMNI
Proto-seed OVULE
Punch SOCK
Pushed (around) BOSSED
Quality TRAIT
Relieved (of) RID
Roman power VIS
Ruckuses STINKS
Scarlett's true love TARA
Score before winning a game, maybe ADIN
See 62-Across EGG
Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues SUPERBOWLSUNDAY
Shooting star, maybe OMEN
Sibyl SEER
Site of many an outdoor wedding GAZEBO
Small creeks RILLETS
Some ABITOF
Some golf fund-raisers PROAMS
Some of the knights in Wagner's 'Tannhäuser' TENORS
Something to contribute to, for short IRA
Spain's Isabel I, e.g. REINA
Spur URGE
Subject for Hume MORALS
Suggested HINTED
Sum up RECAP
Swear words? IDO
Symptoms for a car mechanic HUMS
Takei's 'Star Trek' role SULU
Talks through a film NARRATES
The Globe and others THEATRES
The U.A.E. is in it OPEC
They close at night LIDS
They put on shows AIRERS
Tick (off) TEE
To-do STIR
Totally dominate OWN
Two tablets, say DOSE
Tycoons, slangily FATCATS
Ultimate NTH
Unwrap impatiently RIPOPEN
Vague, as a recollection HAZY
Verdi masterpiece OTELLO
What a crescent symbolizes ISLAM
White-tailed bird ERNE
Word sung twice before 'to you and you and you' ADIEU
___ and Wear (English county) TYNE
___ dixit IPSE
___ se PER
___ the boards (acted) TROD
___ the Great, leader of 1462-1505 IVAN