New York Times - Feb 27 2009

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Clues Answers
'Scènes de la Vie de ___' (novel on which a Puccini opera is based) BOHEME
'Something to Talk About' singer, 1991 RAITT
'The Insect Play' playwright CAPEK
'This would be a first for me' IVENEVERTRIEDIT
1960s-'70s touchdown maker LEM
1997 Demi Moore flick GIJANE
A tossup EVENMONEY
Actress Blakley RONEE
Actress Mazar DEBI
B and O figures: Abbr. ATNOS
Ballyhooed new product of 1998 IMAC
Beat but good THUMP
Before the races PREMEET
Big copper exporter PERU
Bill of Rights subj. REL
Bit of noise pollution BLARE
Brilliant moves COUPS
Bubbly name MOET
Bygone flag THESTARSANDBARS
Can't continue HASTOSTOP
Chambermaid's charge LINEN
Co-firing technique used to reduce pollution from electrical power plants REBURN
Coach TRAINER
Comics dog SNERT
Cover girl, e.g.? SPY
Dayton-to-Toledo dir. NNE
Deserved DUE
Downright PLUMB
Early times, for short AMS
Emulates Eve RAPS
First name in conducting SEIJI
Furlough LEAVE
Hardly hearty ANEMIC
Home of Walvis Bay NAMIBIA
Hurt AIL
Clues Answers
It's a little over 65 degrees: Abbr. ARCTICCIR
It's nothing NIL
Kicker LEG
Kind of depth finder SONIC
Lab subj. SCI
Ladles DIPPERS
Laid-back TYPEB
Loosens (up) WARMS
Make a call USETHETELEPHONE
Make ___ of it ANOTE
Mammonism GREED
Maui mouthful POI
Mission statement part AIM
Much of Central America, once BANANAREPUBLICS
Name repeated in a nursery rhyme PETER
New York's Bear ___: Abbr. MTN
Not hurting for cash SET
Palindromic girl's name AVA
Pastes in Mideastern cooking TAHINIS
Pennies : dollar :: ___ : drachma LEPTA
Producers of sunbows MISTS
Relating to wheels ROTAL
Roll WAD
See 26-Down ASBIG
Short dog, for short POM
Skin: Suffix DERM
Things that open and close yearly? WYES
Think a certain way about HAVEANOPINIONON
Time being NONCE
Trading posts? GENERALMANAGERS
With 41-Down, shrunken NOT
Withdrew quietly WENTASIDE
Words starting a simple request ALLIASK
Yet to be engaged? BORED
You might not get paid while working on it SPEC