New York Times - Sep 7 2009

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Clues Answers
'Close but no cigar' ALMOST
'The Simpsons' clerk APU
'The Simpsons' neighbor NED
'Tut-tut' TSK
'Yeah, sure' IBET
Abbr. in personals SWF
Actress Scala GIA
Alan of 'M*A*S*H' ALDA
Algae color MARINEGREEN
Astronaut Grissom GUS
B'way's 'Les ___' MIZ
Be a sucker GETREELEDIN
Big inconvenience HASSLE
Bill the Science Guy NYE
Birds in many birdhouses WRENS
Bowler's button RESET
Boxing combo ONETWO
Bronzes at the beach TANS
Brother of Cain and Abel SETH
Call to a shepherd BAA
Card game in which a player might ask 'Got any 8's?' GOFISH
Certain camera, for short SLR
Coconut source PALMTREE
Complains CARPS
Daffy GAGA
Decorative needle case ETUI
Disney lyric repeated before 'Darling it's better / Down where it's wetter' UNDERTHESEA
Egyptian desert SINAI
English monarchs from Henry VII through Elizabeth I TUDORS
Escapee's run LAM
Fall for it TAKETHEBAIT
Gave a toot HONKED
Give away temporarily LEND
Globe ORB
Grabs dinner EATS
Head: Fr. TETE
Hell-___ (rowdy sort) RAISER
Hem's partner HAW
Hockey's Bobby ORR
Clues Answers
Hook, line and ___ SINKER
Insert in a tape recorder CASSETTE
Instill with the three R's EDUCATE
Itsy-bitsy WEE
Jilts DUMPS
Latin ballroom dance SAMBA
Letters on a Coppertone bottle SPF
Liberates FREES
Lion's lair DEN
Lions' hair MANES
M.I.T.'s ___ School of Management SLOAN
Masc. alternative FEM
Navigational gizmo GPS
New York's Tappan ___ Bridge ZEE
No, in Nuremberg NEIN
Opportune TIMELY
Period of fasting LENT
Raggedy ___ ANN
Rapper turned actor ICET
Sacred song MOTET
San ___ (Hearst castle) SIMEON
School for princes William and Harry ETON
Sluggers' stats RBIS
Southwest Indian home PUEBLO
Start something that one shouldn't start OPENACANOFWORMS
State when one's nose is out of joint SNIT
Steeple contents BELL
Taxi CAB
Transfixed RAPT
Tutee PROTEGE
Twiddling one's thumbs IDLE
Unexciting BLAH
Us Weekly rival PEOPLE
Useful item accompanying a face card in blackjack ACE
Verb go-with NOUN
Walk the runway at a fashion show MODEL
What the rings signify on a tree AGE
Where streets meet: Abbr. COR
Yes, in Québec OUI