NY Times, Sat, Nov 21, 2009

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1. Increase business : RAMPUPSALES 12. Green line : SAVETHEPLANET 14. Party lighting option : JAPANESELANTERN 16. Minister at a wedding, e.g. : UNITER 17. Took a chance : RISKEDIT 18. Brains' gains : IDEAS 19. Touched : BATS 20. Local theater, slangily : NABE 21. "The Emperor's Snuff-Box" novelist : CARR 22. Company dinner : MESS 23. Sphere's lack : EDGES 24. World Match Play Championship champ a record seven times : ELS 25. Kids' greetings : BAAS 26. Least done : RAREST 27. Face-off place : CENTERICE 29. Lineup at some entrances : STILES 32. Many a J.V. player : SOPH 33. Cabbage roll : WAD 36. Light-headed person? : MINER 37. They no longer boom : SSTS 38. "Philosophy in the Bedroom" author, 1795 : SADE 39. "Man of La Mancha" production org. : ANTA 40. Some touchdown makers, briefly : LEMS 41. Alabama university : SELMA 42. Roller near a derailleur : REARTIRE 44. Shirt attachment : TIEPIN 45. Store something for later thought : MAKEAMENTALNOTE 47. Breaks while lifting, say : RESTINTERVALS 48. One of many American houses : STATESENATE		1. Slender stickers : RAPIERS 2. Personification : AVATAR 3. Egyptian king credited with founding the First Dynasty : MENES 4. Feather: Prefix : PTER 5. Pause fillers : UHS 6. Some workshop critiques : PEERASSESSMENTS 7. Stock options : SPLITS 8. "... in thy possession lies ___ unparallel'd": Shak. : ALASS 9. Rangy : LANK 10. Hear, to Henri : ENTENDRE 11. Horticultural practice : SEEDAGE 12. Item of wear with a strap : SANDAL 13. Alabama and others : TRIBES 14. Press release? : JUICE 15. Desert trial, for short : NTEST 19. Ready to turn in : BEAT 22. Staffs : MANS 23. A head : EACH 25. It has a head : BEER 26. Tatters : RIPS 27. Like the best explanations : CLEAREST 28. Degenerates : ROTS 29. Oiliness : SMARM 30. Karaoke problem : TINEAR 31. Some air lines : INTAKES 33. Britain's first prime minister : WALPOLE 34. Doesn't turn away : ADMITS 35. Early American diplomat : DEANE 37. Conducive to meditation : SERENE 38. Spotted visiting : SEENAT 40. Something not to go over : LIMIT 41. Regional woodland : SILVA 43. "Abyssinia" : TATA 44. Mountain lake : TARN 46. Elevator in a country club : TEE