New York Times - Feb 7 2010

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Clues Answers
''Tis' memoirist MCCOURT
'... and he's got Budweiser and Michelob on tap - excellent ___!' DRAFTPICKS
'... and it works - the ___ is good!' RECEPTION
'52 campaign name ADLAI
'A Shot in the Dark' star, 1964 SELLERS
'Aladdin' monkey ABU
'Antiart' art DADA
'But he forgot to place the order - we may be looking at a ___ here, folks' LATECALL
'He phones the pizzeria and tells them he wants full cheese and mushroom ___' COVERAGE
'He's looking for an opening, but she's doing a tremendous job of ___!' BLOCKING
'He's prepared a ___ of popcorn for himself ...' SUPERBOWL
'His posterior goes all the way back into the easy chair - ___!' TOUCHDOWN
'It Had to Be You' lyricist KAHN
'Now he remembers setting $10 aside for pizza - he searches his jacket and finds it ___' INTHEPOCKET
'Now he's got the pizza - but the TV's showing nothing but snow! He quickly gives it an ___ ...' ONSIDEKICK
'Now he's spotted the pizza delivery boy, who's through the gate and crossing the ___!' YARDLINE
'Now!' STAT
'O.K., he's ordered the pizza - but now his wife is moving around in front of the TV, making ___!' SCREENPASSES
'Pepto' go-with BISMOL
'The football fan is fingering the buttons on the remote ... he pushes the ___ and the game is on!' FIRSTDOWN
'The pizza is $9.75 ... he hands the $10 off to the boy and waits for the ___' QUARTERBACK
'The pizzeria's out of mushrooms, though, so he'll need to make a ___' SUBSTITUTION
1978 World Series M.V.P. Dent BUCKY
1980s-'90s New York governor CUOMO
700, once DCC
A number of SEVERAL
Actor Ed ASNER
Actor Vigoda ABE
Actress Thompson LEA
After much delay ATLAST
Aidful USABLE
Amphetamine, slangily UPPER
Another name for the Furies DIRAE
Arctic explorer John RAE
Battery size AAA
Battle-scarred SEASONED
Bear's partner in investing STEARNS
Bergen dummy SNERD
Bialy, e.g. ONIONROLL
Big holding in Risk ASIA
Bloodshot RED
Brand name acquired by Toro LAWNBOY
Bronx cocktail ingredient GIN
Cable inits. TBS
Carrying a lot LADEN
Castaway's call SOS
Ceiling LID
Colonial 'masters' SAHIBS
Computer book inserts, often CDS
Core military group CADRE
Corn site TOE
Crater's edge LIP
Crunch-time helper TEMP
Daughter of Tantalus NIOBE
Despicable LOW
Direct-sales giant AMWAY
Eastern exercise TAICHI
Easy-Bake Oven introducer KENNER
Essayist Didion JOAN
Even TIED
Exploit DEED
Fashion's Wang VERA
Film producer Apatow JUDD
Fireside recitation TALE
Food energy unit: Abbr. KCAL
Form popular among the Romantics ODE
Francisco, e.g. SAN
French director Besson LUC
Frequent partner of Fonteyn NUREYEV
Fruit peel EPICARP
Funny fellow CARD
Get the best of CULL
Gettysburg general LEE
Go off course YAW
Gold, to Goya ORO
Gone platinum? DYED
Green man? NADER
Greetings HIS
Halfway house INN
Harsh decree DIKTAT
Having a big mouth? LONGJAWED
Heroic poet of Gaelic legend OSSIAN
High degree PHD
Hiker? CENTER
Id follower EST
Clues Answers
Impure ALLOYED
IntelliStation maker IBM
Inuit jacket ANORAK
Iraq War helicopter APACHE
Ivanovic of tennis ANA
Jet BLACKASTAR
Keep in STET
Kind of drug SULFA
Lacks, briefly HASNT
Laying down the lawn SODDING
Leary of TV's 'Rescue Me' DENIS
Letterless phone button ONE
Lie peacefully REPOSE
Light, say NONFAT
Like birds of prey TALONED
Like cartoon 'Melodies' MERRIE
Lost power WANED
Lotion amount DAB
Make one UNITE
Male meower TOM
Masked warrior NINJA
Medical sch. topic ANAT
Mildness LENITY
Most agile SPRIEST
Motrin rival ANACIN
Mountain West conference team UTES
Movie snippet CLIP
Muddled situation SNAFU
N.F.L.'er Manning ELI
Nastase of tennis ILIE
Nettlesome person TWIT
Newsman Roger MUDD
No. on a food label RDA
Not up INBED
Novel ending EPILOG
Observe OBEY
Old Ottoman title DEY
Old public squares AGORAE
One way to serve eel JELLIED
Optimistic UPBEAT
Org. that accredits law schools ABA
P.M. or pres. LDR
Part of L.E.D. DIODE
Perfumery bottles VIALS
Periods of time ERAS
Permissible SANCTIONED
Pertinent, in Latin ADREM
Pirate treasure PLUNDER
Play a part ACT
Pomade HAIROIL
Quilty of 'Lolita' CLARE
Ratty WORMEATEN
Remove a fastener from UNPEG
Ruckus DIN
Salad pasta ROTINI
Scarcely ILL
She that is shorn EWE
Show the ropes ORIENTATE
Shrubby wasteland MOOR
Sine and cosine RATIOS
Sister of Charles ANNE
Slicker, in a way ICIER
Snobbishness ELITISM
Soft-soap CAJOLE
Some loungewear PJS
Spasmodic JERKY
Spoiled COSSETED
Sufficient, once ENOW
Suffix with special IST
Talking tree of Middle-earth ENT
They may be on the verge of a breakdown LEMONS
They're drawn in western scenes REVOLVERS
Thoroughly wets STEEPS
Tosses high LOFTS
Unintentional poker table signals TELLS
Up and down QUARKS
Up to, in brief TIL
Vacation TAKEATRIP
Vaulted recess APSE
Veep Agnew SPIRO
Vexation PEEVE
Waste time DAWDLE
Wee bit TAD
Wheeled table TEACART
World capital once called Philadelphia AMMAN