New York Times - Aug 1 2009

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Clues Answers
'A friend to call my own,' per a Michael Jackson hit BEN
'Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world' speaker JAMESDEAN
'Class Reunion' novelist, 1979 JAFFE
'Far From Heaven' director Todd HAYNES
1947 western serial film SONOFZORRO
6 letters MNO
Attire around the 1-Across SARI
Big name in slapstick JERRYLEWIS
Black marketeer in 'Casablanca' UGARTE
Boosted HIKED
British Columbia's ___ Mountains SELKIRK
Bruiser TOUGHGUY
Building blocks ADOBES
Bygone Buicks RIVIERAS
Car category USED
Cowardly WEAKKNEED
Creator of a comic strip duo named after a theologian and a philosopher WATTERSON
Demonstrate banking skill AVIATE
Desert rodents JERBOAS
Diphthong dividers DIERESES
Distance light travels in 3.3 femtoseconds MICRON
Do a taxing task? FILE
Emissary LEGATE
Film holder CAN
Final resting place built in the 17th century TAJMAHAL
Fine-grained wood YEW
Get the best of CULL
Girl Scouts founder Low JULIETTE
Had some PARTOOK
Hole that's not filled OPENDATE
Hong Kong's Hang ___ Index SENG
Indication of a green light NOD
Is repulsed by HATES
Clues Answers
It may pop on a plane EAR
It might hold gold ORE
Jackson and others JESSES
Like exiles UPROOTED
Like some menus ALACARTE
Low-grade paper RAG
Mehrabad Airport setting TEHERAN
Not at all tight GENEROUS
One may be out of control SITUATION
One of the Sopranos JANICE
Patron saint of hermits GILES
Pitched LEANED
Pitches CAREENS
Posthumous Pulitzer winner of 1958 AGEE
Queens or soldiers CASTE
Rate ___ (be deemed flawless) ATEN
Rates APPRAISES
Ravi Shankar played it at Woodstock RAGA
Reaction to chicken feed PECKING
Repulses SICKENS
Royal educator ETON
Satirist Ward NED
Sentences may end with them PARDONS
Skippered LED
So, in Salerno COSI
Sound sometimes followed by an attack GRR
Stately old court dance PAVAN
Summer turn-on? FAN
Tank type PANZER
They remove letters EVICTORS
Title vampire of film NOSFERATU
Voting booth information PARTIES
___ seat CATBIRD