Ink Well xwords - Sep 9 2011

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Clues Answers
'... if not cheaper' ORLESS
'Did ___ anything?' IMISS
'I can only ___ much!' ('I'm only one person!') DOSO
'I'm down' SURE
'Shut up already!' QUITTALKING
'___ nice day for a white wedding' ITSA
-like ESQUE
1978 Menudo album LAURA
A hip one might be skinny TIE
Adjective forbidden in crosswords because it's gross and bodily MUCOUS
Animal with a scratching post HOUSECAT
Asset when shopping on a budget THRIFT
Bloods and others GANGS
Bread MOOLA
Bush or Clinton GEORGE
City of ancient Palestine SAMARIA
Condition in which one's arms are laid to the side? PEACE
Contemporary set, for short HDTV
Cougar Longoria EVA
Customer service center approximation QUEUETIME
Delicate, like the fluttering wings of a fairy ETHEREAL
Doctor whose publications are read mostly by children SEUSS
Duel manager in 'Hamlet' OSRIC
Equally hard to locate ASRARE
Era AGE
Famously driven captain AHAB
Feeling that might be aroused IRE
Flip, in real estate-speak QUICKTURN
Franklin with 18 Grammys ARETHA
Heavenly bear URSA
Home to some 200,000 ethnic 48-Down IRAN
Hopped up on candy bars, perhaps HYPER
House that a wealthy person might pass on ESTATE
Indonesian grilled chicken snack SATAY
La-Z-Boy purchase SOFA
Labor Day culinary approach BBQ
Lawn area called a 'devil's strip' only in Akron, Ohio BERM
Clues Answers
Literature read in a gender studies class QUEERTHEORY
Love, to Sextus AMOR
More tough, as it were REALER
Name in a well-known Beethoven piece ELISE
Narrow battery AAAA
Natural, in '70s lingo AFRO
Network television no-no, politely TEAT
Ninja-like, and this puzzle's theme ONTHEQT
Noted Chicago Sun-Times critic EBERT
NYC transit org MTA
One-named singer with '19' and '21' ADELE
Part of ETA: Abbr ESTD
Portrayer of a teenaged Bluth CERA
Powerful 2009 hurricane IDA
Prayer ORISON
Pry, perhaps, as a News of the World employee ENQUIRE
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas KRISTOF
Rolling in it RICH
Rolls's partner ROYCE
Shakespearean schemer IAGO
Shelves over the toilet, perhaps ETAGERE
Some Kurdish speakers IRAQIS
Takes a breather, as a swimmer? EMERGES
Taking no skin off your back EASY
Term of respect, in South Asia BABU
The 'Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer' BARQS
Thing hung from the rafters BANNER
Tranquil, like a cloudless day at a seaside retreat IDYLLIC
Up and at 'em ASTIR
Ward on 'CSI: NY' SELA
What un lac is filled with EAU
Whinnies NEIGHS
Word after Protestant or DIY ETHIC
Word before Kea or Loa MAUNA
You earn one for a sac fly RBI
___ Nidre (Yom Kippur prayer) KOL
___ nous (confidentially) ENTRE