New York Times - Dec 6 2009

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Clues Answers
'Arabian Nights' opener? ALIBABA
'Away From ___' (Julie Christie film) HER
'Come on in!' ITSOPEN
'Intolerance' actress Lillian GISH
'Mother Courage and Her Children' playwright BRECHT
'The Lord of the Rings' dwarf GIMLI
'You ___ bother' NEEDNT
'___ here!' WERE
1930s heavyweight champ known as the Ambling Alp CARNERA
1986 film featuring Chevy Chase as Dusty Bottoms THREEAMIGOS
Adjusts for daylight saving, e.g. RESETS
Affluence EASE
Air play? PASS
Ankh's top LOOP
Architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao GEHRY
Archival material ANNALS
As yet unactualized LATENT
Attack helicopter COBRA
Becomes layered while settling SEPARATES
Begging soldiers? TROOPPLEADERS
Best guide around town, probably NATIVE
Bottom line? FOOTER
Boyo LAD
Brought in REAPED
Brown who wrote 'The Lost Symbol' DAN
Bullets, in Texas hold'em ACES
Call again? RENAME
Call before a football game HEADS
Choose not to cook, say EATOUT
Co. of which Howard Hughes became the principal shareholder in 1939 TWA
Coll. dorm overseers RAS
Colorado's Mesa ___ VERDE
Competitors of Wahoos and Tar Heels TERPS
Country whose name means 'warrior king' GHANA
Cream alternative GEL
Deciding the best man is better, perhaps? CHANGINGGROOMS
Delay TIMELAG
Dewlap's place THROAT
Dishonorable BASE
Double or nothing, say? NEWWAGER
Earn GARNER
Empty words HOTAIR
Fair EXPO
Farmyard chorus MOOS
France's Belle-Île-en-___ MER
Galaxy shape SPIRAL
Gambler's declaration IMIN
Gave birth to a litter WHELPED
Get by somehow MANAGE
Great white ___ EGRET
Hall-of-Famers GREATS
Handle GRIP
Headwear also known as jipijapas PANAMAS
Heavy lifters CRANES
Holder of pet electrons, protons and neutrons? ATOMICCAGE
Horsehair source MANE
Hymn starter GLORIA
It might have an extension: Abbr. URL
It's most useful when it's cracked WHIP
James who wrote 'A Million Little Pieces' FREY
John-Boy Walton's sister ERIN
Keats's '___ on Indolence' ODE
Key holders PIANOS
Keyless ATONAL
Kick in the rear, maybe PROD
Languish ROT
Large hot spot SAHARA
Clues Answers
Letters on old rubles CCCP
Like a foreboding sky GRAY
Like many rugs WOVEN
Like mountains and maps SCALED
Looks after TENDS
Los Angeles museum, with 'the' GETTY
Lunch orders that are typically sliced in half BLTS
Majestic STATELY
Maker of 'the plow that broke the Plains' DEERE
Manchester moms MATERS
Many a shipment to Detroit STEEL
Mattress problem LUMP
Med. care provider HMO
Médoc, for one REDWINE
Memento of an old athletic injury? SPORTSSCAR
Minute Maid Park players ASTROS
Muesli ingredients OATS
Nitpicks? ASSAULTTRIFLES
Off SLAY
Olympics ideal TEN
Peggy Lee's signature song FEVER
Pickett's Charge participant REB
Plays at maximum volume BLARES
Pres. title CIC
Pro ___ (for one's country) PATRIA
Professorial material? TWEED
Prostitute who protected Israelite spies, in Joshua RAHAB
Reductions in rank that aren't entirely bad? MIXEDDEMOTIONS
Reluctant LOATH
Rocking chair storyteller GRAMPA
School cards CLASSCLOWNS
Seaside bird ERN
Senate tie breaker VEEP
Setting of Van Gogh's 'Cafe Terrace at Night' ARLES
Shaker's sound BRR
Shy SHORT
Sir ___, nephew of King Arthur GARETH
Skater Midori ITO
Sorters' formations PILES
South Los Angeles district WATTS
Spectacular autumn trees ASPENS
Stem joints NODES
Stock in trade GOODS
Suave competitor PRELL
Subway car feature POLE
Suffix with slogan EER
Superheroes have them POWERS
They're all good SAINTS
They're set for drinking and smoking LEGALAGES
Things heard after thumbs are hit with hammers? CARPENTERRANTS
Tips LISTS
Tolerant of other opinions LIBERALMINDED
Trace IOTA
Triumphant cry YES
Up ELEVATE
Uses as a source CITES
Vanity case? EGOTRIP
View from the Quai d'Orsay SEINE
Water carrier MAIN
West Bank grp. PLO
What white flour lacks BRAN
Where Caleb was sent as a spy CANAAN
Windup END
X-ray view BONES
Young scientists who are impossible to work with? LABBRATS
___ Mawr College BRYN
___ rigueur (literally) ALA