New York Times - Oct 22 2009

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Clues Answers
'08 classmate, now ALUM
'For real!' IMEANIT
'Is that ___?' ANO
'Saving Grace' airer TNT
'Shhh!,' not so politely SHUTUP
'The Whiffenpoof Song' singer ELI
'___ won't!' NOI
*'That's way off' NOTBYALONG
*Colorful party drink JELLO
*Jigger GLASS
*Photo SNAP
*Quick hitch-up GUNWEDDING
*Rejected DOWN
*Track-and-field event PUT
*What 'fore' may precede TEE
*Y-shaped item SLING
.0000001 joule ERG
1967 war locale SINAI
1986 #1 hit for Starship SARA
Actor Estevez EMILIO
Arabic for 'commander' EMIR
Bleached WHITENED
Book before Amos JOEL
Butt CIG
Camera setting AUTO
Completer of the fifth pillar of Islam HADJI
Crawl (with) TEEM
Creating a din AROAR
Cuisine with sen yai noodles THAI
Daniel Decatur ___, composer of 'Dixie' EMMETT
Earned a citation? SPED
El número de agosto OCHO
Explorer and Navigator SUVS
Federal management agcy. GSA
FedEx, say SHIP
Give a handicap of SPOT
Insect called a greenfly in Britain APHID
Is seconds behind LAGS
It's similar to cream ECRU
Clues Answers
Mako shark prey OPAH
Many magicians wear them TOPHATS
Masculine side YANG
Maven GURU
Mideast's Mount ___ LEBANON
Mop & ___ GLO
Nabokov novel ADA
Nick name? SANTA
Nonchalance EASE
Often-ladled drinks NOGS
Omens SIGNS
One-up OUTDO
Pack rat HOARDER
Pale WAN
Pinochle combos MELDS
Prefix denoting 10 to the ninth power GIGA
QB's cry HUT
Rapper ___ Jon LIL
Rat Island resident ALEUT
Reason to celebrate OCCASION
Red of early jazz NORVO
San Rafael's county MARIN
Sch. located on the Rio Grande UTEP
See 27-Across THEDARK
Shadow UMBRA
Sitar pieces RAGAS
Small ridge on the edge of a button or dial KNURL
Solo in science fiction HAN
Some riffraff THUGS
Spiritualist's tool OUIJA
Stop on Magellan's circumnavigation of the world GUAM
Straight HETERO
Suffix with Euclid EAN
Title heroine who says 'One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other' EMMA
Trapped CLOSEDIN
Vegetable that's peeled RUTABAGA
Whistle-blower NAMER
With 52-Across, wild guess ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? ASHOTIN
___-Aryan INDO