NY Times, Fri, Feb 27, 2009

1 T

2 H

3 E

4 S

5 T

6 A

7 R

8 S

9 A

10 N

11 D

12 B

13 A

14 R

15 S

16 H

A

V

E

A

N

O

P

I

N

I

O

N

O

N

17 U

S

E

T

H

E

T

E

L

E

P

H

O

N

E

18 M

T

N

19 I

M

A

C

20 P

E

T

E

R

21 P

O

M

22 N

I

L

23 P

24 R

E

M

E

E

T

25 S

O

26 N

I

C

27 B

L

A

R

E

28 A

T

N

O

S

29 C

O

U

P

S

30 W

31 A

32 D

33 M

O

E

T

34 W

A

R

M

S

35 P

E

R

U

36 S

P

Y

37 T

Y

P

E

B

38 N

O

N

C

E

39 G

R

E

E

D

40 R

A

I

T

T

41 A

42 L

43 L

I

A

S

K

44 L

E

M

45 A

I

46 M

47 S

E

I

J

I

48 D

E

B

I

49 S

C

I

50 B

A

N

A

N

51 A

52 R

E

P

U

B

53 L

I

C

S

54 I

V

E

N

E

V

E

R

T

R

I

E

D

I

T

55 G

E

N

E

R

A

L

M

A

N

A

G

E

R

S

Across		Down
1. Bygone flag : THESTARSANDBARS 16. Think a certain way about : HAVEANOPINIONON 17. Make a call : USETHETELEPHONE 18. New York's Bear ___: Abbr. : MTN 19. Ballyhooed new product of 1998 : IMAC 20. Name repeated in a nursery rhyme : PETER 21. Short dog, for short : POM 22. It's nothing : NIL 23. Before the races : PREMEET 25. Kind of depth finder : SONIC 27. Bit of noise pollution : BLARE 28. B and O figures: Abbr. : ATNOS 29. Brilliant moves : COUPS 30. Roll : WAD 33. Bubbly name : MOET 34. Loosens (up) : WARMS 35. Big copper exporter : PERU 36. Cover girl, e.g.? : SPY 37. Laid-back : TYPEB 38. Time being : NONCE 39. Mammonism : GREED 40. "Something to Talk About" singer, 1991 : RAITT 41. Words starting a simple request : ALLIASK 44. 1960s-'70s touchdown maker : LEM 45. Mission statement part : AIM 47. First name in conducting : SEIJI 48. Actress Mazar : DEBI 49. Lab subj. : SCI 50. Much of Central America, once : BANANAREPUBLICS 54. "This would be a first for me" : IVENEVERTRIEDIT 55. Trading posts? : GENERALMANAGERS		1. Beat but good : THUMP 2. Can't continue : HASTOSTOP 3. A tossup : EVENMONEY 4. Not hurting for cash : SET 5. Pastes in Mideastern cooking : TAHINIS 6. Hardly hearty : ANEMIC 7. Relating to wheels : ROTAL 8. You might not get paid while working on it : SPEC 9. Hurt : AIL 10. Dayton-to-Toledo dir. : NNE 11. Ladles : DIPPERS 12. "Scènes de la Vie de ___" (novel on which a Puccini opera is based) : BOHEME 13. Make ___ of it : ANOTE 14. Actress Blakley : RONEE 15. Comics dog : SNERT 23. Downright : PLUMB 24. Emulates Eve : RAPS 26. With 41-Down, shrunken : NOT 27. Yet to be engaged? : BORED 28. Early times, for short : AMS 29. "The Insect Play" playwright : CAPEK 30. Withdrew quietly : WENTASIDE 31. It's a little over 65 degrees: Abbr. : ARCTICCIR 32. Deserved : DUE 34. Things that open and close yearly? : WYES 35. Maui mouthful : POI 37. Coach : TRAINER 38. Home of Walvis Bay : NAMIBIA 39. 1997 Demi Moore flick : GIJANE 40. Co-firing technique used to reduce pollution from electrical power plants : REBURN 41. See 26-Down : ASBIG 42. Furlough : LEAVE 43. Chambermaid's charge : LINEN 44. Pennies : dollar :: ___ : drachma : LEPTA 46. Producers of sunbows : MISTS 48. Skin: Suffix : DERM 51. Palindromic girl's name : AVA 52. Bill of Rights subj. : REL 53. Kicker : LEG