New York Times Crossword Answers - Apr 27, 2014

New York Times Crossword Solutions - Apr 27, 2014

Clue	Answer
'America by Heart' author, 2010	PALIN
'Little ___' Pea'	SWEE
'Lohengrin' lady	ELSA
'Not for me'	IPASS
'Santa Baby' singer	KITT
'St. John Passion' composer	BACH
'That Old Black Magic' composer	ARLEN
'The Jungle Book' bear	BALOO
'Whew!'	MAN
'___ around around around around' (repeated line in Dion and the Belmonts' 'The Wanderer')	IROAM
Actress Parker	POSEY
Actress Taylor of 'Mystic Pizza'	LILI
Back from vacation, say	RESTED
Bad points	CONS
Baroque	ORNATE
Baseball great Campanella	ROY
Basis for promotion	MERIT
Bayonets, say	STABS
Between continents, say	ASEA
Big acronym in energy	OPEC
Big boo-boo	BONER
Birthplace of the Franciscan order	ASSISI
Bit of riding gear	CROP
Bribe	SOP
Bunch of stuff	OLIO
Capable of handling	EQUALTO
Catchy pop ditties	EARCANDY
Christmas wrapper?	ELF
Comic's sidekick	FOIL
Commercial tiger's name	TONY
Cornmeal dish	POLENTA
Cover completely	CARPET
Current amount	AMPERE
Día de San Valentín flowers	ROSAS
Dickens orphan	NELL
Division in biology	MITOSIS
Docks	PIERS
Drawn things	STRAWS
Dubai's federation: Abbr	UAE
Emulate Harry Connick Jr	CROON
Exclamation said before sticking out the tongue	YECCH
Execute perfectly	DOTOAT
Faultless	UNERRING
Fill	SATE
Fiscal exec	CFO
Free-for-all	MELEE
Fund for a third party	ESCROW
Fund-raising event	BENEFIT
Gala	FETE
Going ___	ATIT
Grab (onto)	GLOM
Greened up, perhaps	REGREW
Hardly be deadpan	EMOTE
Have ___ for	ANEED
High-toned	CLASSY
Hindu part of Indonesia	BALI
Hit show sign	SRO
Horrifying	GHASTLY
Houston pro, informally	STRO
In a footnote, say	CITED
Instruct	TUTOR
Just	ONLY
Kind of tradition	ORAL
Kitchen tool	RICER
Knock down a peg	ABASE
Knock over	ROB
Leads, as a band	FRONTS
Like many candles	SCENTED
Little angels	DEARS
Magazine founder Eric	UTNE
Maximally hip	COOLEST
Mend after further injury	REHEAL
Monk's grooves	BEBOP
Mop's commercial partner	GLO
More than snacks	DINES
Motivates	INSPIRES
Mötley ___	CRUE
New York City's ___ River	EAST
Not relaxed	TAUT
Oil spill-monitoring org	EPA
One heading to the cape?	TORO
One may have a ball at the country club	TEE
Operating procedures: Abbr	SYSTS
Origin of a stream: Abbr	SPR
Panel member	JUROR
Paradox to be meditated on	KOAN
Pet door opener	PAW
PIN part: Abbr	IDENT
Place for a touchdown	TARMAC
Poet who wrote 'So Thomas Edison / Never drank his medicine'	NASH
Political muscle	CLOUT
Polo, e.g	SHIRT
Prankster's patsy	BUTT
Pratt Institute degs	MFAS
Prefix with -port	TELE
Prime seating area	ROWA
Queen, e.g	MONARCH
Quod ___ faciendum	ERAT
Range of understanding	PURVIEW
Religious figure: Var	IKON
Roll in a disaster supply kit	DUCTTAPE
Roman 'of wrath'	IRAE
Scale part	SOL
Short strokes	PUTTS
Showplace?	STAGE
Simon of Broadway	NEIL
Simple tune	AIR
Some canapé picks	SWORDS
Some hibernators	TOADS
Spot	ESPY
Suffers	AILS
Supporting force	ALLY
That señorita	ELLA
The chicken farmer ..	FLEWTHECOOP
The civil engineer ..	HITTHEROAD
The demolitionist ..	BLEWTHEJOINT
The ecdysiast ..	TOOKOFF
The film director ..	QUITTHESCENE
The lingerie manufacturer ..	SLIPPEDAWAY
The paparazzo ..	WASGONEINAFLASH
The paper doll maker ..	CUTOUT
The percussionist ..	BEATIT
The soda jerk ..	RANLICKETYSPLIT
The sound technician ..	MADETRACKS
The van driver ..	MOVEDON
Tremors	SEISMS
Trial	TEST
Trial figure	STENO
Tutti-___	FRUTTI
Twice tetra-	OCTA
Two points	COLON
Twosome	DUET
U.P.S. driver assignments: Abbr	RTES
Victory, to Wagner	SIEG
Where auto racers retire?	PITS
William who played Hopalong Cassidy	BOYD
Winter vehicle	SNOCAT
Word with color or rhyme	SCHEME
Xeric	ARID
___ City, 1939 film locale	EMERALD