Newsday.com - Aug 23 2009

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Clues Answers
''And this is the thanks __?'' IGET
''Dona __ pacem'' (Mass phrase) NOBIS
''Friends'' actress ANISTON
''I'm too busy to talk!'' NOTNOW
''Mer'' contents EAU
''Oklahoma!'' contraction AINT
''Taking Woodstock'' director LEE
''The Simpsons'' kid LISA
401(k) alternative IRA
91 Down is one BIRD
Alias lead-in AKA
Altar area APSE
Anointed successor HEIR
Apothecary measure DRAM
Arena cheer OLE
Auspices AEGIS
Baltimore ballplayer ORIOLE
Be in debt OWE
Beach Boys tune of '63 SURFERGIRL
Biblical tempter SERPENT
Big name in furniture IKEA
Big Ten sch. OSU
Black Sea port ODESSA
Blue hue CYAN
Brooklyn and Manhattan, for short BOROS
Business card abbr. EXT
Bust's opposite BOOM
Cagy SLY
Cal. headings MOS
Care for TEND
Carries on, as business TRANSACTS
Cassini of fashion OLEG
Cavalry mounts STEEDS
Cold war initials USSR
Common rhyme scheme ABAB
Corn Belt city AMES
Course deviations YAWS
Cries of scorn BAHS
Desert refuges OASES
Distort, as statistics SKEW
Drifters tune of '64 UNDERTHEBOARDWALK
Elvis tune of '61 BLUEHAWAII
Enticement BAIT
Err SLIP
Even score TIE
Few and far between RARE
Flower site BED
Foul smell FETOR
Four-time Indy 500 winner FOYT
Geologic period EPOCH
George Jetson's son ELROY
Ger. cars VWS
German philosopher HEGEL
Got out EXITED
GPS determination RTE
Grass section SOD
Greek messenger of the gods HERMES
Green-light OKAY
Gull relative TERN
Gymnastics equipment HORSE
Hair holders SNOODS
Has a snack EATS
High-fashion initials YSL
Highway-sign abbr. JCT
Hog home STY
Hose shade ECRU
Ignore the alarm SLEEPIN
It may be bright IDEA
Jacket part ARM
Keyed in ENTERED
Clues Answers
Like some tuxes RENTED
Manipulative sort USER
Map dot TOWN
Mar. honoree STPAT
Marine mammal MANATEE
Metered ride TAXI
Minor setback SNAG
Mischievous sprites PIXIES
More far-reaching VASTER
Munch CHEW
Musical speeds TEMPI
Nabokov novel PNIN
Naval rank below capt. CDR
Needless repetition TAUTOLOGY
Nevertheless YET
North America's highest peak DENALI
Not agin FER
Numerous SOMANY
Off the mark ERRANT
One way to run AMOK
Org. with a five-ring logo IOC
Packard's partner HEWLETT
Pale WAN
Pat Boone tune of '57 LOVELETTERSINTHESAND
Pay tribute to EXALT
Pays for BUYS
Peace Nobelist Wiesel ELIE
Peevish display SNIT
Pipe bend ELL
Plasterboard DRYWALL
Put __ to (halt) ASTOP
Racetrack figures ODDS
Really take off SOAR
Recipe direction STIRIN
Rust, for instance OXIDE
Salon offering TINT
Scottish bays LOCHS
See 22 Across YELLOWPOLKADOTBIKINI
Sense FEEL
Shakespearean fairy queen MAB
Size up RATE
Sly & the Family Stone tune of '69 HOTFUNINTHESUMMERTIME
Small salamander NEWT
Smith of ''Charlie's Angels'' JACLYN
Speaker's platform ROSTRUM
Spoken ORAL
Squeak and squeal NOISES
Successor to 61 Down CIS
Suffix for bull ISH
Suit parts VESTS
Summer showing RERUN
Taking tea, maybe SIPPING
The pair BOTH
The Roaring Twenties, e.g. ERA
Top line on a chorale SOPRANO
Tupperware sound BURP
Twosomes DYADS
Urgent request PLEA
Used to be WAS
Villain BADMAN
When tripled, ''et cetera'' YADA
Where Notre Dame is PARIS
With 34 Across, #1 song of '60 ITSYBITSYTEENIEWEENIE
Without much thought RASHLY
Work __ sweat UPA
Yuletide purchase TREE
[not my error] SIC
__ butter (moisturizer ingredient) SHEA
__ facto IPSO
__-dieu (prayer bench) PRIE