New York Times - Dec 31 2011

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Clues Answers
'Hoc ___ in votis' ERAT
'If things were to continue thus ...' ATTHATRATE
'Oh, cruel world ...' ALAS
'The thoughtful soul to solitude retires' poet OMAR
'This shindig rocks!' ITSABLAST
'___ dunno ...' OHI
-nik kin ITE
Accessory that may have a state name on it SASH
Always or sometimes, say ADVERB
Approvals NODS
Back with bread BETON
Belt tightenings BUDGETCUTS
Bushwa ROT
CD rate? RPMS
Computer screenful ICONS
Continuing drama SAGA
Crop further RETRIM
Curly-furred cats REXES
Electrical accessories ADAPTORS
Excuse-interrupting comment SPAREME
Experiment runners? RATS
Feature of many a box of chocolates HEARTSHAPE
Food item often cut into rings OLIVE
Four-footed orphan of literature ELSA
Gets set GELS
Half note, in Britain MINIM
Heretofore ASYET
Hong Kong's Hang ___ Index SENG
Improve AMEND
Large bore SNORE
Lawyer's setup? PRIVATEPRACTICE
Lift, of a sort TBAR
Like many garages ONECAR
Like prickly pears OVOID
Like some suits CIVIL
Like the best chicken or turkey, say MOISTEST
Clues Answers
Novelist whose character Adah speaks in palindromes KINGSOLVER
Number of one of the Olympics canceled due to W.W. II XIII
Occasion to put on sheets TOGAPARTY
Offshoot SCION
Old Testament 'man of the field' ESAU
One on a Liszt list OPUS
Oodles SCADS
Parlors with TV screens: Abbr OTBS
Part of Melanesia NEWGUINEA
Picks a fight STARTSSOMETHING
Posts SENDS
Primer option LATEX
Psychiatrist's appt SESS
Red Sox anthem TESSIE
Right wrongs ATONE
Righted wrongs MADERESTITUTION
Rustle STIR
Sandy tract by the sea, to a Brit DENE
Sched. letters TBA
Setting for instruments PANEL
Shower head? BRIDETOBE
Sign of engine trouble SMOKE
Skewer STAB
Slave singing several solos AIDA
Start that conveys very little? MICRO
Study of some bubbles?: Abbr ECON
Subject for a folder ORIGAMI
They're often placed on parcels REALESTATETAXES
Turnovers, e.g STAT
Umbrella AEGIS
Unclutter NEATENUP
What a 61-Across will be called for only a little while longer MISS
Wiretapping grp NSA
Yemen-to-Zimbabwe dir SSW
___ manual USERS