New York Times - Aug 1 2011

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Clues Answers
'Crazy' bird LOON
'Or ___!' (threat) ELSE
'___ do' ('Not possible') NOCAN
*British novelist who wrote 'London Fields' MARTINAMIS
*College near Philadelphia SWARTHMORE
*Container next to a bowl of cereal MILKCARTON
*Eloquent ARTICULATE
*Gradually separated MOVEDAPART
*Having both Republican and Democratic support BIPARTISAN
*Like some checks and vendors THIRDPARTY
*National discount store chain DOLLARTREE
Al who won four Indy 500s UNSER
Antiestablishment figure ICONOCLAST
Asia's shrinking ___ Sea ARAL
Baseball's Hammerin' ___ HANK
Bent at a curtain call BOWED
Congratulate nonverbally PAT
Corp. creativity department RANDD
Crafty SLY
Crimson Tide school, for short BAMA
D.C. winter hrs. EST
Dark film genre NOIR
Degree after an M.A., perhaps PHD
Dove's sound COO
Dust Bowl migrants OKIES
Easter roasts HAMS
Encounter MEET
French 'to be' ETRE
French-speaking nation in the Americas HAITI
Go kaput DIE
Here, in 1-Across ICI
Hot cocoa container, maybe MUG
Humble response to a compliment ITRY
Hurry HASTE
In the past AGO
Jamaica, por ejemplo ISLA
Japanese 'yes' HAI
Kerfuffle ADO
Clues Answers
King Kong, e.g. APE
Lawn base SOD
Letters after pis RHOS
Liter or meter UNIT
Loved to pieces ADORED
Mets' ballpark until 2008 SHEA
Morales of 'NYPD Blue' ESAI
Network with an eye logo CBS
Nothing NIL
Nothing NADA
Palindromic bird TIT
Pictures inked on the body, in slang TATS
Place to enter a PIN ATM
Prunes, originally PLUMS
Record for later viewing, in a way TIVO
Rooster's mate HEN
Saxophonist Stan GETZ
Scratch, as a cat might a sofa CLAWAT
See 40-Down EARTH
Shawl, e.g. WRAP
Spanish 'south' SUR
Start to wake up STIR
Symbol on Superman's chest ESS
The last 'w' in www WEB
Tiny part of a computer's memory BYTE
Train for a boxing match SPAR
Unfinished project ... or, literally, what the answers to the eight starred clues contain? AWORKINPROGRESS
Urge IMPEL
Whacked-out mental state DAZE
What everyone brings to a potluck dinner DISH
Where a bear hibernates DEN
Where the Northern Lights occur IONOSPHERE
Wigwam relative TEPEE
With 43-Across, yttrium or scandium RARE
Words before 'You may kiss the bride' IDO
___ colada PINA
___ Martens (shoes) DOC
___ meridiem (morning: Lat.) ANTE