NY Times, Sun,  Dec 18, 2005  WHAT THE PROFESSOR MEANT TO SAY

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1. Takes off : SOARS 6. Blurted (out) : SPAT 10. Track runner? : TRAM 14. Mona ___ smile : LISAS 19. Parts of hearts : ATRIA 20. Docent's offering : TOUR 21. Sarah Josepha ___, who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb" : HALE 22. Seven-time French Open winner : EVERT 23. Melodramatic : SOAPY 24. "The Aviator" actor, 2004 : ALDA 25. Marine killer : ORCA 26. The Beatles, once : MANIA 27. "Have a nice weekend ? heh-heh" : HOMEWORKISDUEONMONDAY 31. Cousin of Muhammad : ALI 32. Babealicious : HOT 33. E'en if : THO 34. Part of a speller's clarification : ASIN 35. Having four sharps : INE 36. Cry of success : YES 37. Pound with a metric system? : EZRA 39. First name in modeling : TYRA 42. Cantillated : INTONED 44. "You, in the front row!" : INEEDAVOLUNTEER 47. Cracked : AJAR 50. Family : KIN 51. Stamp letters : USDA 52. Controversial 50's event : ATEST 56. Element in magnetic alloys : COBALT 59. Caesarean delivery? : ETTU 61. Apples can be compared to them : IBMS 64. Quadrennial White House administration : OATH 65. "My lecture's done, but we still have five minutes" : ANYQUESTIONS 68. Crowd attractor : SALE 70. Riddle-me-___ : REE 71. Like some effects : DESIRED 72. Last lines : CODAS 74. The lonely goatherd, in a "Sound of Music" song : YODELER 76. Feminine suffix : ESS 77. Slate, e.g., for short : EMAG 79. "I can't read your handwriting!" : NEXTTIMETYPE 81. Track event : MEET 83. Record problem : SKIP 85. Behind : REAR 86. Listening to Muzak, maybe : ONHOLD 87. German coal city : ESSEN 89. Uncle ___ rice : BENS 91. Inlet : RIA 93. Some bills : ONES 94. "Your grades aren't what they should be" : SEEMEAFTERCLASS 100. Inhuman : BEASTLY 103. Meatloaf serving : SLAB 104. 50-Across's partner : KITH 105. Father or son Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" : TOM 108. It lacks 93-Across : ATM 109. Port container : CASK 111. Its musical ID is just the notes G, E and C : NBC 113. Brian of rock : ENO 114. Govt. org. with a flower in its logo : EPA 115. "If I could digress for a moment ?" : YOUDONTNEEDTOKNOWTHIS 121. Diplomat Deane of early America : SILAS 122. Start of a decision-making process : EENY 123. "Good ___!" : IDEA 124. Netanyahu's successor : BARAK 125. Sharp : ALERT 126. Philosopher Descartes : RENE 127. Ending of many toothpaste names : DENT 128. Steamed : IRATE 129. Heads of états : TETES 130. River of W.W. I : YSER 131. Ziegfeld Follies costume designer : ERTE 132. Spaced (out) : ZONED		1. Proceed nonchalantly : SASHAY 2. "High Spirits" star, 1988 : OTOOLE 3. Literary dueler : ARAMIS 4. Opportune : RIPE 5. Pourer's request : SAYWHEN 6. Successful film franchise starting in 1979 : STARTREK 7. San Francisco street named for a president : POLK 8. Not take for credit : AUDIT 9. Certain guilty pleasure : TRASHTV 10. Ten Commandments word : THOU 11. "For the ___ and radiant maiden": Poe : RARE 12. Reynolds Wrap maker : ALCOA 13. Isn't joking : MEANSIT 14. Sore throat remedy : LEMONTEA 15. One of six Russian rulers : IVAN 16. Submit : SENDIN 17. French satellite-launching rocket : ARIANE 18. Was a good dog, perhaps : STAYED 28. Go through slowly : OOZE 29. "Dig?" : DOYOUUNDERSTAND 30. Dig : MINE 38. Cutting down, after "on" : ADIET 40. Old literary inits. : RLS 41. Car maker whose name is Latin : AUDI 43. "___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Hamlet : ORTO 44. Like some Bedouins : IRAQI 45. Like Charlie Chaplin : ANTIC 46. Gets : NABS 47. Professors' environs : ACADEME 48. Objects of envy : JONESES 49. Black holes, e.g. : ABYSSES 53. In the initial phases : EARLYON 54. Index fingers, in a children's hand game : STEEPLE 55. Great American Ballpark team : THEREDS 57. Siren : LURE 58. Is multitudinous : TEEMS 60. Any of TV's Simpsons : TOON 62. Polite question : MAYI 63. Technique for viewing some slides? : SLOMO 66. Neb. neighbor : SDAK 67. Old German duchy name : SAXE 69. Fall locale : EDEN 73. Best replacement : STARR 75. Set of values : ETHOS 78. Ridicule : GIBE 80. Trojan horse : TRICK 82. Hardy girl : TESS 84. Some have black eyes : PEAS 88. Bottom lines : NETCOSTS 90. Vikings' org. : NFL 92. Turn off : ALIENATE 95. Verve : ELAN 96. Open case : MYSTERY 97. Good time to collect seashells : EBBTIDE 98. 27 for 56-Across, e.g.: Abbr. : ATNO 99. "That's ___!" : SHOWBIZ 100. Serenades, as the moon : BAYSAT 101. Le soleil, par exemple : ETOILE 102. It works like a charm : AMULET 105. W.W. II conference site : TEHRAN 106. Endorphin, e.g. : OPIATE 107. Like raccoons : MASKED 110. Cap sites : KNEES 112. Spy's gizmo : CODER 116. Beard : DARE 117. Feminine suffix : ENNE 118. Appraiser : EYER 119. County of Dover, Delaware ? or Dover, England : KENT 120. Relative of a potato : TARO