New York Times - Mar 2 2009

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'How was ___ know?' ITO
'If I Had a Hammer' singer Lopez TRINI
Afternoon social TEA
Air that makes you go [cough, cough] SMOG
Alert to danger WARN
Annoying IRKING
Antelope with a hump and twisted horns ELAND
Antlered animal ELK
Asian new year TET
Belly button NAVEL
Bitterly pungent ACRID
Black goo TAR
Brit. resource for wordsmiths OED
Cheapskate PIKER
Chicago's winter hrs. CST
College transcript no. GPA
Combat with fighter-bombers AIRWAR
Commercials ADS
Course to breeze through EASYA
Cut, as expenses PARE
Decorative gratings GRILLES
Draped Delhi dress SARI
Edgar Allan Poe story, with 'The' GOLDBUG
Emperor who fiddled around? NERO
Form rust, say OXIDIZE
Fort ___, Fla. MYERS
Gentle rise and fall of the voice LILT
George M. who composed 'Over There' COHAN
Ghost's cry BOO
Go wild RUNRIOT
Hacky Sack, basically BEANBAG
Hi-fi supply LPS
Holds the title to OWNS
Indigenous NATIVE
Ink stain BLOT
Inspector Clouseau movie, with 'The' PINKPANTHER
Invent, as a phrase COIN
Its brands include Frito-Lay and Tropicana PEPSICO
Jock's channel ESPN
Clues Answers
John Steinbeck book, with 'The' REDPONY
Lewis Carroll character who's late WHITERABBIT
Like the models in a swimsuit issue SEXY
Martial arts actor Lee BRUCE
Money for the senior yrs. IRA
Ninth-inning relief pitcher CLOSER
Number of sides in a decagon TEN
O.K. Corral gunslinger EARP
One of 100 on the Hill: Abbr. SEN
Parapsychology subject, briefly ESP
Patients, to doctors CASES
Perfect example EPITOME
Pie à la ___ MODE
Plodding journeys TREKS
Poet Gelett Burgess wrote that he never saw one PURPLECOW
Politico ___ Paul RON
Popeye's Olive ___ OYL
Public square PLAZA
Pull out UPROOT
Rocker Bob with the Silver Bullet Band SEGER
Rubbish holder ASHBIN
Rye and whole wheat BREADS
Salad cube CROUTON
Soapy froth SUDS
Source of PIN money? ATM
Spooky EERIE
Squealer RAT
Start a Web session LOGON
Stats for sluggers RBIS
Sty : hogs :: ___ : horses STABLE
Swimmers' distances LAPS
Symbol by the phrase 'You are here' ARROW
Take furtively SNEAK
TV host Philbin REGIS
Unspecified amount ANY
Walk with heavy steps TRAMP
What a cowboy may use while saying 'Giddyup!' SPURS
What you might catch a tiger by, in a saying TAIL
Yeats's homeland EIRE