New York Times - Mar 17 2012

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Clues Answers
'Alas!' SOSAD
'Brokeback Mountain' director LEE
'In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice' speaker DESADE
'The Da Vinci Code' albino SILAS
1997 Nielsen title role MAGOO
A biochemical solid STEROL
Actor who might grin and bare it? PORNSTAR
Ancient pentathlon event DISCUS
Approximately .264 gallons ONELITER
Big name in educational funding PELL
Birds of prey ERNS
Cable inits TLC
Character ETHOS
Check that's inked, perhaps TESTPAGE
Chorus member? SILENTH
Common admission requirement USERNAME
Conceptual art pioneer ONO
Cry from an arriving group WEREHERE
Department head? TETE
Director's cutoff ANDSCENE
Div. created in 1969 ALEAST
Dock, in a way DEBIT
Essence ATTAR
Etiolates PALES
Fish of sufficient size KEEPER
Flavor SEASON
Freshen RENEW
Fur source OTTER
Fur sources ERMINES
Game show purchase ANE
Grp. involved in the Abbottabad raid NSC
Hands-in-the-air phrase PRAISEGOD
Having an underwhelmed response TEPID
High clouds? POTSMOKE
Hold off DETER
Hot IRATE
Clues Answers
Hot dog's relative HAM
Incipience ONSET
It gets the word out PASYSTEM
It might have a crust PIETIN
Itinerary abbr STA
Language of the Afghan national anthem PASHTO
Line from Homer DOH
McCarthy cohort SNERD
Medicate oneself, say POPAPILL
Name-brand targets? CATTLE
New Valentine's phrase added on Sweethearts candy in 2010 TEXTME
Objects from everyday life REALIA
Onomatopoeic game on 'The Price Is Right' PLINKO
Prince Edward I. clock setting AST
Rampaging ONASPREE
Rare dynamic marking seen in Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony PPPPPP
Scramble OLIO
Secrecy, with 'the' DOWNLOW
Sharp SLY
Sketch SKIT
Slangy pronoun DAT
Smooth LEGATO
Sophocles tribute that begins 'Numberless are the world's wonders ...' ODETOMAN
Spikes LACES
Spray MIST
Spread SOWED
Spring locales WELLS
Spring locales OASES
Stock in an adult store SEXTOYS
They're near appendices ILEA
Thought after an after-afterthought: Abbr PPPS
Time near the end of a time range LATEDATE
United group ALLIES
War cry of the '60s REBELYELL
Words below an eagle USMAIL
___ tree UPA