New York Times - Dec 19 2009

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Clues Answers
'Absolutely' YOUCANCOUNTONIT
'Don't you ___?' SEE
'Nature concentrated,' per Balzac ART
'The Call' autobiographer ORALROBERTS
'The Italian Job,' e.g. CAPER
'The Spirit' creator Will EISNER
'___ sher!' FER
About 33.8 fluid ounces LITER
Alert QUIVIVE
All-Star Cubs catcher Geovany SOTO
August setting in the Capitol bldg. EDT
Boiling over IREFUL
Cal ___ POLY
Carefully monitored area, for short ICU
Casting device TRIMDIE
Certain ticket holder BETTOR
Chili con ___ (Tex-Mex dish) QUESO
Criticizes RAPS
Current governor FUSE
Easy interview question LOB
Emulates Iago SCHEMES
Figure in Greek myth whose name means 'desired' ERATO
Flirt TEASE
Foot-drag STALL
Grayish shade DUN
Hard work SWEAT
Hold in a ring ARMLOCK
Host of PBS's 'Heritage: Civilization and the Jews' EBAN
Intraclub competition rankings LADDER
Italian site of a 1796 Napoleon victory LODI
Item sported to support Britain's Comic Relief REDNOSE
Its leader's flag featured a black eagle: Abbr. HRE
Light wind OCARINA
Clues Answers
Loverly? AMOROUS
Made the newspaper RAN
Make it BEASTAR
Managed banks? AVIATED
McCarthy cohort SNERD
Melliferous, perhaps APIAN
More melodramatic SOAPIER
Muffin stuffin'? OLEO
Offering from many a New York City street vendor KNISH
Opaque UNCLEAR
Overreact to an accident, maybe SUE
Oxygen atom's protons, e.g. OCTAD
Picked things NITS
Pleasant enough NICEISH
Pseudopod formers AMOEBAS
Roger who coached eight different N.H.L. teams NEILSON
Sandy who was national security adviser for Bill Clinton BERGER
See 18-Across DECAY
Site of many tests DNALAB
Small containers: Abbr. PTS
Split between roommates DOUBLEOCCUPANCY
Standard buckets LAYUPS
Stayed in, say LAYLOW
Swears AVOWS
They call themselves Suomalaiset FINNS
Thread used in briefs LINEOFREASONING
Tigers' rival in the Southeastern Conference CRIMSONTIDE
Too quickly EARLY
Transcendent state ECSTASY
Unprepared RAW
Very end of a conflict FINALRESOLUTION
What flibbertigibbets make NOSENSE
With 4-Down, 'Roger & Me' subject URBAN