New York Times - Jul 28 2014

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Clues Answers
'Gross!' EWW
'___ Te Ching' (classic Chinese text) TAO
666, for the numbers on a roulette wheel SUM
A.T.M. co NCR
Baseball's Pee Wee REESE
Birds in the 'Arabian Nights' ROCS
Black-tie parties GALAS
Chafes RUBS
Chance of an impossibility ZEROPERCENT
Classical music group ... or what the four sets of circled letters make up? STRINGQUARTET
Comes up ARISES
Component of a language class, informally VOCABLESSON
Coupon bearers, often ADS
Critical hosp. department ICU
Cutters that cut with the grain RIPSAWS
Dickens's '___ Twist' OLIVER
For even a second more ANYLONGER
Fraidy-cat WUSS
From ___ Z ATO
Functions USES
Galley propeller OAR
German article EIN
Grew old SENESCED
Hand-held Fourth of July firework SPARKLER
In the manner of ALA
Indian dress SARI
Innocent's opposite GUILTY
Insipid BLAND
Intimidates DAUNTS
Joke GAG
Kidman who is neither a kid nor a man NICOLE
Knight's glove GAUNTLET
Like a cat in need of a firefighter, stereotypically TREED
Like a catch-22 situation LOSELOSE
Mandel of 'America's Got Talent' HOWIE
Mattress's place BED
Mexican wrap SERAPE
Mule on a canal, in song SAL
Clues Answers
N.F.L. lengths: Abbr YDS
N.Y.C. alternative to JFK LGA
Nickelodeon show whose protagonist has a football-shaped head HEYARNOLD
Nineveh's land ASSYRIA
Note between fa and la SOL
Notions IDEAS
Observed BEHELD
One of eight on an octopus ARM
Org. for LeBron James NBA
Penguin variety ADELIE
Plump songbird THRUSH
Portent OMEN
Prepared to be knighted KNELT
Psychic's 'gift,' briefly ESP
Rams' mates EWES
Rock with gold or silver, say ORE
Roundabout route DETOUR
Short boxing punch JAB
Sketch comedy TV series since '75 SNL
Somebody ___ problem ELSES
Squander WASTE
Squeeze (out) EKE
Suffix with Kafka ESQUE
Talk on and on and on RAMBLE
Thailand/Vietnam separator LAOS
Those who put a lot of effort into social climbing, in modern lingo TRYHARDS
Unit of farmland ACRE
Upright, as a box ONEND
Watery abysses DEEPS
Weasley family owl ERROL
With great attention to detail MINUTELY
Word pronounced the same when its first two letters are removed YOU
Yank JERK
___ de cologne EAU
___ mater ALMA
___ of Menlo Park (Thomas Edison) WIZARD
___ Spumante ASTI
___ the pants off SUE