New York Times - Nov 10 2011

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Clues Answers
'Absolut nicht!' NEIN
'Ain't gonna happen!' NIX
'Alea iacta ___': Julius Caesar EST
'Compromise is the best and cheapest ___' (saying attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson) LAWYER
'Explosive' roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure NITRO
'If I were king of the forest ...' singer LAHR
'In bad company,' per Ambrose Bierce ALONE
'My Life' autobiographer, 1975 MEIR
'Such is life' AHME
'The Way' TAO
'___ Declassified School Survival Guide' NEDS
A part of, as a gang INWITH
Analogy words ISTO
Angle iron LBAR
Approximately ORSO
Assassin SLAYER
Beyond reason? SENILE
Big name in luxury hotels OMNI
Boxcar SIX
Call DIAL
Cicely of 'Roots' TYSON
City on Commencement Bay TACOMA
Cleaning a mess in a mess, maybe ONKP
Clip GAIT
Comes calling unexpectedly POPSIN
Comprehended SEEN
Depot: Abbr STN
Dollar coin figure before Susan B. Anthony, familiarly IKE
Dome light? IDEA
Experienced with USEDTO
Feature replaced in four clues in this puzzle CAPITALLETTER
Fills, as black squares INKSIN
Fraternity characters PSIS
Gave pills, e.g DOSED
Get an A, say EXCEL
Gradually slowing, in mus RIT
Half of a 1955 merger, for short CIO
Clues Answers
Hard-to-clean floor covers SHAGRUGS
Hawaiian handouts LEIS
It might hold you back STRAP
lago LAKEINSPANISH
lamb's place PASTURELAND
lams, say FLEESFROMPRISON
Like many windows SASHED
Locale for some diving OYSTERBED
lon ACTORCHANEY
Med. unit TSP
Mexican kin TIAS
Myth ending ICAL
Mythical ship with a speaking oak beam ARGO
One may be smooth TALKER
Ones getting base pay GIS
Order member FRA
Passeport info NOM
PC key ESC
Picking up things? ESP
Poet Elinor WYLIE
River to the Arctic Ocean LENA
Roman writer who originated the phrase 'with a grain of salt' PLINY
Roping target CALF
Snowmen and snowwomen? INUIT
Spring break locale, casually STPETE
Still around EXTANT
Strip UNCLOTHE
Take in ADOPT
The Ponte Vecchio spans it ARNO
They may do write-ups, for short RAS
Things picked out of the earth ORES
Touches ABUTS
Trouble NAGAT
Vulnerable parts WEAKLINKS
Where Al Yankovic bought a 'Dukes of Hazzard' ashtray, in song EBAY
Wind up END
Word akin to '-ish' KINDA