New York Times - Dec 5 2009

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'Later!' BYENOW
'Notes on a Scandal' director Richard EYRE
'Squawk on the Street' airer CNBC
'Vaya Con Dios' hitmaker, 1953 LESPAUL
'You got it' OKEYDOKE
1970 hit documentary LETITBE
2000 Supreme Court case hinging on the 14th Amendment BUSHVGORE
6 or 7, but not 60 or 70 EARLYAGE
Acceptable shooting? PAR
Ad ___ (National Space Society's magazine) ASTRA
Alternative to Uno Chicago Grill SBARRO
Annually PERYEAR
Arthur Godfrey played it UKE
Bagels, e.g. TORI
Band hand ROADIE
Begins to fail SLIDES
Cigarette holder TIN
Cogitate MUSE
Common text file name README
Condemnable? DECREPIT
Corporate retreat closer, perhaps GROUPHUG
Covering for some wrestlers OIL
Cubs' leader AKELA
Difficult to grasp EELY
Environment for multiplication, of sorts AGAR
Film about a furnace SOOT
First-century coup victim NERO
Fracas TUSSLE
Frequent 5-Down topic NYSE
Hold ALLEGE
Ice varieties SHERBETS
It drops to 0 after sundown UVINDEX
It may be used to avoid paparazzi SIDEDOOR
Japanese noodles UDON
Jumble HASH
Kind of vodka RYE
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Laggard LOITERER
Leather type OXHIDE
Los : Spanish :: ___ : Italian GLI
Maserati headquarters city MODENA
Model featured in 'Little Miss Sunshine' VWBUS
Modern campaign element ROBOCALL
Money holder CLIP
Mooring site INLET
Navigation abbr. ENE
Not much ATAD
Not open SECRETIVE
Old capital of 36-Across LIRA
One way to stand AKIMBO
One who used to get Bronx cheers? EXYANKEE
Opposite of encouraged DETERRED
Part of many British place names UPON
Plover named for its call PEWIT
Port annexed by Britain in 1839 ADEN
Producer of a piercing look XRAYEYES
Recharge RESTUP
Second chance in education? RETEST
Soupcon TINGE
Start developing achromotrichia GOGRAY
Sweeping instrument OAR
Tabloid publisher's check LIBELLAW
The Carpenters, e.g. POPDUO
The Who's 'Love, Reign ___ Me' OER
They work to maintain their faculties DEANS
To be or not to be, e.g. OPTION
Trilogies, often SAGAS
TV character who says 'I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows' BART
Undulate ROLL
Upgrade from dial-up DSL
War film setting STALAG
Where Aida sings 'O patria mia' NILE
Worn-down pencils, say NUBS