New York Times - Oct 5 2010

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Clues Answers
'Brain' of a computer, briefly CPU
'Do that one would rarely wear a hat with FRO
'I caught you!' AHA
'___ better?' ANY
*Bid adieu, informally SAYBYEBYE
*Failure by a narrow margin NEARMISS
*It's often ordered à la mode APPLEPIE
*Like Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan AFRICANAMERICAN
Abstracts EPITOMES
Actress Skye IONE
Andean land PERU
Answer, in court PLEAD
Argot LINGO
Attracts PULLS
Beasts of burden ASSES
Bizarre ODD
Boise-to-Phoenix dir. SSE
Book of divine guidance KORAN
Brit. legislators MPS
Building wing, e.g. ADDON
Captain's record LOG
Card game popular in Germany SKAT
Caught GOT
Characteristic of bland food and bad dressers NOTASTE
Chopin's 'Polonaise in ___ Major, Op. 53' AFLAT
Cleavage-revealing dress feature SCOOPNECK
Coca-Cola Zero, e.g. DIETSODA
Coffee cultivated on Mauna Loa KONA
Dear, in 12-Down CHERI
Family beginnings ROOTS
Fatty part of an egg YOLK
Flamenco cry OLE
Fliers in V's GEESE
French brainchild IDEE
Fruity drinks ADES
Gorilla famously taught to use sign language KOKO
Group of lions PRIDE
Hall-of-Famer Combs who played with Gehrig and Ruth EARLE
Husband of Pocahontas ROLFE
Clues Answers
Indira Gandhi's family name NEHRU
Irritable TESTY
Is on the hunt PROWLS
It may be off the wall ECHO
Joint for a beggar? KNEE
King of the Cowboys ROYROGERS
Lavish affection (on) DOTE
Life-or-death VITAL
Like a good golf score UNDERPAR
Live DWELL
Mac alternatives PCS
Malfoy's look, in the Harry Potter books SNEER
Meddle (with) TAMPER
Mideast noble EMIR
Neighbor of Bhutan INDIA
Never-ratified women-related measure, for short ERA
No enrollees at Smith College MALES
Not a major haircut TRIM
Novel NEW
Online portal since Windows 95 was launched MSN
Open, as a pill bottle UNCAP
Painter Chagall MARC
Photoshop option CROP
Places for ornamental fish PONDS
Race for hot rods DRAG
Rips off ROBS
Singer of the lyric formed by the ends of the answers to the four starred clues DONMCLEAN
Spot for a shot ARM
Swing or rock MUSIC
Take ___ of (sample) ASIP
Thanksgiving invitee, commonly: Abbr. REL
The Changing of the Guard, e.g. CEREMONY
Topographic map notation: Abbr. ELEV
Van Gogh locale ARLES
Villa ___ DESTE
Violinist's stroke UPBOW
Where a pear's seeds are CORE
Word after waste and want NOT
___ fly (certain baseball hit, for short) SAC