New York Times - Jul 21 2012

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#2 or #3, say ALSORAN
'I want to know ...' TELLMETHIS
'Night Music' playwright ODETS
2012 election issue OBAMACARE
53-Across menaces ASPS
Aide, in ads ASST
Basics ABCS
Bay, say INLET
Become friends with TAKETO
Better with deception SLIER
Doormats, of a sort YESMEN
Dupe SAP
E.P.A. targets PCBS
Fast-food slogan IMLOVINIT
Feature of pop and rock? SHORTO
Flirt with CHATUP
Flying start? AVI
Gal asked to 'lay down' in a Clapton song SALLY
Gambling mecca MACAU
Gong TAMTAM
Greek prince ___ Cassadine, longtime 'General Hospital' character NIKOLAS
Hard ___ CIDER
Hero player MALELEAD
Info in an apartment ad AREA
Insignia on Pirates uniforms PEES
Internet commenter's initialism IMHO
It may be said con flores YOTEAMO
Jiff SEC
Job largely automated these days: Abbr OPER
Kevin Bacon film of 2000 MYDOGSKIP
King of Norway, 1957-91 OLAFV
Knocked off SLEW
Like pueblos OCHRE
Modern measures of popularity HITS
Mountain on the Armenian coat of arms ARARAT
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Mr. Handsome DREAMBOAT
Musical work that includes 'Willow, Tit-Willow' THEMIKADO
Objects in some Japanese art LOTUSES
Odious one CREEP
Odious ones SLIMEBALLS
Old vaudevillian catcall HELLONURSE
Opposite of collected INAPANIC
Overcharge SOAK
Overhead ___ CAM
Pink Nintendo title character KIRBY
Pooches with turned-up tails POMS
Powerful voting bloc HISPANICS
Prefix with -lithic PALEO
Prevents from littering SPAYS
Promulgates SOWS
Pull-___ TAB
Repeated cry in an exercise class STEP
Rot FESTER
Satisfied MET
See 54-Across NILE
Shuffled pair FEET
Singer/dancer/actress once called the 'Queen of Las Vegas' LOLAFALANA
Something to talk about TOPIC
They're set ALARMS
Union demand PAYRAISE
Vendor's condition SOLDASIS
Violent STORMY
Ways PATHS
Ways, for short MOS
What a 25-Across may have lost VOTE
What a gun may be fired at? RANDOM
Woman's name meaning 'beautiful' BELLA
Worker bees, e.g CASTE
___ passu (equably) PARI
___ wheels MAG