New York Times October 12 2008 crossword clues & answers

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New York Times Oct 12 2008

Clue	Answer
'American Pie' songwriter	MCLEAN
'How can ___?'	ILOSE
'I'm not quite done yet'	ONEMORE
'Impossible' response to the question 'Are you sleeping?'	IAM
'Original or crispy' offerer	KFC
'So be it'	AMEN
'The Virginian' author Wister	OWEN
13-time Gold Glove-winning shortstop	OZZIESMITH
1970s-'80s supermodel	TIEGS
4 x 4, briefly	UTE
A little extra burnishing, maybe, in brief	TLC
Agent with many girls	BOND
Archaic Irish script	OGHAM
Banker's worry	PANIC
Be in a cast	ACT
Biography of Odin, e.g.?	SHAGGYGODSTORY
Bone: Prefix	OSTEO
Bones that support tibiae	TALI
Bring (in) abundantly	RAKE
Butt	CIG
California city where A & W root beer was born	LODI
Celebration time, for short	BDAY
Ceylon's capital?	SOFTC
Chamber work	NONET
Chicago journalist Mike	ROYKO
Circular gasket	ORING
City NW of Minneapolis	MAPLEGROVE
College cohorts	ROOMIES
Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen	ESA
Cover in a layer	CARPET
Date not marked on a calendar?	TRYST
Decide to take part	OPTIN
Deep-six	SCRAP
Deserve special perks, say	RATE
Disturbance	STIR
Done	ATANEND
Drop leaf support	GATELEG
E.R. part: Abbr.	EMER
Embarrassing outbreak	SCENE
Étagère with a single tiny shelf?	ONETHINGSTAND
Eva's half sister?	ZSA
Even things	ATONE
Explodes	POPS
Family dinner	RIBROAST
Family head	CAPO
Fancy footwear	SPATS
Fictional clue sniffer	ASTA
Fingered	IDED
French pronoun	TOI
Frequent drivers	GOLFERS
Georges who wrote 'Life: A User's Manual'	PEREC
German beef?	ACH
Grade elevator	PLUS
Grp. that includes Canada and Colombia	OAS
Grp. with a co-pay	HMO
Hanger?	NOOSE
Hardest to get	RAREST
Hardly laid-back	TYPEA
Hardware fastener	TNUT
High ball	LOB
Hip-hop's ___ Kim	LIL
How beatniks raise kids?	INCOOLPARENTIS
In order (to)	SOAS
Infatuates	BESOTS
Inundate	DROWN
It may be stroked	EGO
It's taken by some coll. seniors	LSAT
Ivory or Coast	BARSOAP
Jacks, e.g.	GAME
Kenyan grazer	ELAND
Last Supper question	ISITI
Latin lambs	AGNI
Learned	WISE
Lepidopterous movie monster	MOTHRA
Less dense	SPARSER
Like cacti	SPINY
Low-budget films about hearty European meals?	DUTCHSTEWINDIES
Ltr. holders	ENVS
Make more tempting, as a deal	SWEETEN
Marching smartly	INSTEP
Missouri feeder	OSAGE
Moves quietly	GLIDES
Mrs. Gorbachev	RAISA
Mythical enchantress	MEDEA
Narrow inlet	RIA
Nigerian-born singer with five Top 40 hits	SADE
Noted war photo site, briefly	IWO
Numbers, at times	DENTISTS
Object of a mil. search	AWOL
Old TV's '___ Three Lives'	ILED
Once around	ORBIT
One to one, e.g.	TIE
Organ repair sites, briefly	ORS
Oven emanation	AROMA
Over	ANEW
Page with views	OPED
Picard's counselor on 'Star Trek: T.N.G.'	TROI
Pinza of 'South Pacific'	EZIO
Place to find a long-term companion, maybe	PETSTORE
Place to go for kitchenware?	GENERALPOTSOFFICE
Precept	TENET
Protester	ANTI
Queue before Q	NOP
Rapper with a professional title	DRDRE
Raptor's roost	AERIE
Rashad of football	AHMAD
Ready to run later	ONTAPE
Reagan adviser Nofziger	LYN
Recital list	PIECES
Richards : Moore :: Grant : ___	ASNER
Say A is not A, say	LIE
Say without saying?	IMPLY
Semi-attached compartment?	CAB
Sharp scolding	EARFUL
Skater Brian	ORSER
Skull and Bones meeting attendee	ELI
Slate, for one	EMAG
Some crew members	OARSMEN
Something very tough	ABEAR
Soothe, in a way, as a burn	BLOWON
Staggered	AWED
Stash	HOARD
Straight: Prefix	RECTI
Study of natural animal behavior patterns	ETHOLOGY
Subject of a 2004 F.D.A. dietary supplement ban	EPHEDRA
Sudden increase	SPIKE
Supermarket section	DAIRY
Take some off the top?	MOW
Traffic directors	ARROWS
Up in the air	ALOFT
Used	PREOWNED
Wallop	DRUB
Wee bit	IOTA
When repeated, 'Out of the way!'	BEEP
Where citrus trees grow in small groups?	THREELIMEISLAND
Where hermit painters retire?	LONEARTSSTATE
White and wet	SNOWY
With no adverse consequences	SCOTFREE
Worked (up)	HET
Zinger	BARB

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