New York Times - Mar 4 2010

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Clues Answers
'American Beauty' setting SUBURBIA
'Fiesque' composer LALO
'Molly ___,' popular Irish song MALONE
'The Lost World' menace TREX
'___ in London' (jazz album) ELLA
'___ when?' SINCE
*Alternative way to get directions? OTHERMAP
*Be funnier than comedian Bill? TOPMAHER
*Better, in hip-hop slang? MOREPHAT
*Kitchen or living room? HOMEPART
*One who dislikes unruly hair? MOPHATER
*Via Veneto? ROMEPATH
1972 treaty subj. ABM
2003 hip-hop hit by Fabolous INTOYOU
39-Down vote YEA
Affected one POSEUR
Alpha, beta or gamma STAR
Amaze AWE
Answer to each of the six starred clues, literally MIXEDMETAPHOR
Artist's portfolio DRAWINGS
Big blow? GALE
Bygone emporium DIMESTORE
Canadian station sign ESSO
Chip, maybe MAR
Church perch PEW
Datebook entry: Abbr. APPT
Devotional bench PRIEDIEU
Diamond family name ALOU
Eponymous scale developer MOHS
Expose, poetically OPE
FedEx rival DHL
Felipe Calderón's land: Abbr. MEX
Football's Adam Vinatieri, e.g. EXPATRIOT
Gadflies, e.g. PESTS
Greek character RHO
Hairy Himalayan YETI
Clues Answers
Half of a 1980s sitcom duo ALLIE
Heroic verse EPOS
Housewares brand OXO
How kids grow up, it's often said TOOFAST
I love, to Livy AMO
Judge's cry LET
Like XX vis-à-vis X, sizewise LARGER
Literary monogram TSE
Mary's charge LITTLELAMB
Masked men with blades NHLGOALIES
Nebraska senator succeeded by Hagel EXON
Night class subj. ESL
Pharmacy units DOSES
Piccolo players, e.g. PIPERS
Pick ELECT
Pilot's abbr. ALT
Play-___ DOH
Proceed without notes, say ADLIB
Red-faced ASHAMED
Retail giant founded by a 17-year-old IKEA
Scotland's Firth of ___ TAY
Sewers have them MAINS
Song sung by an orphan TOMORROW
Sounds of surprise OHS
Soviet space dog LAIKA
Spanish waves OLAS
Spy satellite's acquisition INTEL
Stout FAT
Subtitle of many biographies ALIFE
Swell BALLOON
The majority of Jutlanders DANES
Very dry SERE
Villainous member of the Serpent Society, in Marvel Comics ASP
Voting 50-Across PRO
___ position FETAL
___ smasher ATOM