New York Times - May 23 2010

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Clues Answers
'Able was ___ ...' IERE
'Bewitched' aunt CLARA
'Boy, am I shvitzing!' ITSHOT
'Charlotte's Web' setting STY
'Get that first down ... and don't fumble'? HANDOFFREMARK
'Good comeback!' NICEONE
'In the,' in Italy NEI
'Parade de Cirque' artist SEURAT
'Platoon' setting, for short NAM
'While you're ___ ...' ATIT
'___ next?' WHOS
'___ No Woman,' 1973 hit for the Four Tops AINT
'___ sow ...' ASYE
10 years before the Battle of Hastings MLVI
A lot of mil. personnel PVTS
Airhead BIMBO
Alan of Hollywood ALDA
Art supply store stock OAKTAG
Be flush with ABUT
Bell site STEEPLE
Biennial golf competition RYDERCUP
Big bump JAR
Blathered RANON
Blood fluid: Prefix SERO
Blood: Prefix HEMA
Book contents: Abbr. PGS
Bright lights NEONS
Capital city more than 9,000 feet above sea level QUITO
Cause of some storms ELNINO
Chateau ___ Michelle winery STE
Clothier, in Cambridge DRAPER
Colleague of Lane and Kent OLSEN
Comical Johnson ARTE
Competition among shrinks? PSYCHOLOGICALFAREWAR
Computer offering MENU
Country singer Chesney KENNY
County of Newark, N.J. ESSEX
Creature in a 'King Kong' fight TREX
Current regulator RHEOSTAT
David, for one STATUE
Dead Sea Scrolls writer ESSENE
Disney title character from Hawaii LILO
Dorm V.I.P.'s RAS
Dr. Seuss title animal HORTON
Exuberant cries WAHOOS
Fall behind OWE
Famous movie river KWAI
Fireplace cavity ASHPIT
First sign ARIES
Five-time U.S. Open champ GRAF
Former Yankee pitcher Hideki IRABU
Frozen dessert SORBET
Frozen dessert in France GLACE
Future seeds OVULES
Gave heartburn, say ATEAT
Give ___ (say O.K.) ANOD
Growling sound RRR
Guru WIZ
Halloween purchase COSTUME
Hassock OTTOMAN
Hertz rival AVIS
Home of the N.C.A.A. Minutemen UMASS
Home of the N.C.A.A. Spartans MSU
Husband of Pompeia CAESAR
Ill-mannered one CAD
Impel ACTUATE
Inspirations BREATHS
Jai ___ ALAI
Jam CLOG
Clues Answers
Job legislation estab. in 1973 CETA
Keats's nightfall EEN
Kick oneself over REGRET
Kiev-born Israeli P.M. MEIR
Like Saint-Saëns's 'Urbs Roma' Symphony INF
Like some complexions RUDDY
Long bones FEMURS
Lost zip STALED
Maintain AVOW
Michelle Robinson, now OBAMA
Milton works SONNETS
Nearby school, maybe RIVAL
No contests ROUTS
Nobel Prize category: Abbr. ECON
Norman of TV fame LEAR
Not to be persuaded DEAF
Observatory subj. ASTR
Old fogy FOSSIL
Ooze SEEP
Org. for Venus and Serena Williams WTA
Pacific atoll in 1943 fighting TARAWA
Paid attention to, with 'of' TOOKNOTE
Passes out DEALS
Pedestal topper IDOL
Pen name BIC
Personnel IDs SSNS
Philippines' highest peak: Abbr. MTAPO
Place for grain SILO
Place to stick a comb AFRO
Plato's 'tenth Muse' SAPPHO
Prefix with logical IDEO
Pumice source LAVA
Recommended reading for newbies FAQS
Relevant, in law ADREM
Relish ZEST
Ride the breeze WAFT
Round of golf, informally NINE
Royalties org. ASCAP
Salad green ARUGULA
Santa ___ ROSA
Say 'I lost,' say CONCEDE
Sci-fi escape vehicles PODS
Shortish piano piece SONATINA
Skin ___ TONE
Small-runway aircraft, briefly STOL
Spanish demonstrative ESTA
Spurs GOOSES
Standard part of a food pyramid MILK
Start of the French Lord's Prayer NOTRE
Stray ROAM
Super Bowl XXXIV champs RAMS
Temptress SIREN
They're just not done TABOOS
Thread holder ETUI
Thug living next to humorist Will? MRROGERSHOODNEIGHBOR
Thwart FOIL
Undercover jobs STINGS
Verdi tragedy OTELLO
Vise parts JAWS
Visitors' fair warning? WESHALLCOMEOVER
Waiting in line for hooch? ATASTILLSTAND
Watching over Warsaw's national emblem? POLEFLAGSITTING
Web presence SITE
Where ETs do knitting and art? ALIENCRAFTSPACE
Wine city north of Lisbon OPORTO
Word said with a tear, maybe ALAS
[Ignore edit] STET
___ Bator, Mongolia ULAN
___ nerve ULNAR