New York Times - Aug 22 2009

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Clues Answers
'Beata Beatrix' painter ROSSETTI
'By the Waters of Babylon' author, 1937 BENET
'I'm all ears!' DOSAY
'___ the last time ...?' WHENS
A long stretch AGES
Agent's cut, maybe ONETENTH
American-born queen NOOR
Asian royal RANEE
Assemblée législative SENAT
Betters ENHANCES
Blue Light brewer LABATT
Brand of 17-Across food OREIDA
Cause to be stuck BAFFLE
Co-composer of the 'Prophecy Theme' in 'Dune' BRIANENO
Creed component ISM
Critic RATER
Cut short in performing STACCATO
Cutting-edge development? SCAR
Deafening ABLARE
Depressions GLOOMS
Doesn't play conservatively EMOTES
Dramatic order to leave EXEUNT
Enthused AGOG
Fractions of a gourde CENTIMES
Fresh ANEW
From SINCE
Gallery CORRIDOR
Green stuff SOD
Have the most reliable info KNOWBEST
Herd : horse :: knot : ___ TOAD
Hit to the wallet DAMAGE
Home of the annual Gathering of Nations powwow, the world's largest celebration of Native American culture ALBUQUERQUE
Home of the Viking Ship Museum OSLO
In wide circulation ABROAD
It might get rolled off LINT
Clues Answers
It passes through a pollen tube GAMETE
Italian city with an annual music festival SANREMO
Kid that has a nap SUEDE
Kyle's baby brother on 'South Park' IKE
Like some wages and wastelands FROZEN
Muffed on the green FOOZLED
Mythological hunter ACTAEON
New York congresswoman Lowey NITA
Olympic gold medalist who was a 'Dancing With the Stars' champion KRISTIYAMAGUCHI
One barely living? NUDIST
One who may get dispossessed? DEMONIAC
Panama's San ___ Islands BLAS
Performance piece? ACT
Physical, e.g. EXAM
Place for many a piano LOUNGE
Plumlike fruit LOQUAT
Quick flights LAMS
Razor handle? BIC
Reference abbr. ETSEQ
Response of assent LETS
Ristorante suffix INI
Russian oblast or its capital OREL
Setting for 37-Across RINK
Spook's break-in BAGJOB
Swingers' get-together? JAZZSESSION
The Sierra Nevada Minarets, e.g. ARETES
They occur when things are all tied up, briefly OTS
Undertake precipitately RUSHINTO
Very unpopular model EDSEL
Very unpopular worker SCAB
Was close to failure TOTTERED
When repeated, Columbia feeder WALLA
Where Alex Trebek worked as a newscaster CBC
Yak IDLECHAT
You can get them on the house: Abbr. MTGES