New York Times - Mar 1 2012

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Clues Answers
'We've taken the city, but can we defend it?'? CONQUESTION
-like ESQUE
A ship may appear on it HORIZON
Add-on to the start or end of a word stem (as in 17-, 25-, 35-, 49- and 57-Across) AFFIX
Additions and deletions, say EDITS
Agitate ROIL
Arafat successor ABBAS
Bark WOOF
Belted, in the Bible SMOTE
Brazilian greeting OLA
Cheeseburger cheese CHEDDAR
City named after the French for 'strait' DETROIT
Classic Jaguar XKE
Directional ending ERN
Dropper? OAF
Europe's Bay of ___ BISCAY
Extreme DIRE
Festa de ___ João SAO
Fish of the genus Moringua EEL
Fly-catching birds PHOEBES
Former intelligence agcy OSS
Forward AHEAD
Further in DEEPER
German interjections ACHS
Good place for a picnic? REPASTURE
Google results HITS
Honor His Honor, say RISE
Insurance giant on the N.Y.S.E AIG
Israel's third-largest city HAIFA
It's sold in tubs TOFU
Kansas mil. post built in 1853 FTRILEY
L'Eiger, e.g ALPE
Least windy TERSEST
Like a tenacious sibling? PERSISTERLY
Like an unlucky encierro participant GORED
Like some glass or wood STAINED
Like some lips RUBY
Clues Answers
More likely to make you sick, say GERMIER
Nap finish? STER
Native parka wearer ALEUT
Not Rubens's type SLENDER
Not stay all the way up SAG
Nutritional fig RDA
Old Dodge OMNI
Out ABSENT
Peer of Ellington BASIE
Peter who directed 'The Dresser' YATES
Pile of glacial debris MORAINE
Players who spend most of their time on the bench, briefly DHS
Postscript ENDNOTE
Princess Leia, e.g HEROINE
Pushes for URGES
Quiet, in a way APPEASE
Rai ___ (Italian TV channel) TRE
Runaways ROUTS
Salad bar tidbit LENTIL
See 36-Down PERON
Sharp-crested ridge ARETE
Sharp-edged tool ADZ
Soak SOP
Spanish alternative? OTRO
Sportscaster Cross and others IRVS
Support FOOTING
Take home NET
That: Sp ESA
They can be felt in a classroom ERASERS
Threat in 'Armageddon'? DISASTEROID
Three-term title for 22-Across: Abbr PRES
Top of a bottom WAIST
Unnecessary words cluttering wise sayings? PROVERBIAGE
Urban playground surface ASPHALT
When repeated, words before 'burning bright' to start a William Blake poem TYGER
___ Club, 1930s-'60s New York hot spot STORK
___ Shuffle (boxing move) ALI