New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answer - Feb 01, 2015

 New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solution - Feb 01, 2015

Clue	Answer
'Argo' setting	IRAN
'Castaway' director, 1986	ROEG
'Life of Pi' director	ANGLEE
'Lookin' good!'	DAMN
'My dear man'	SIR
'South Park' boy	STAN
'The Bridge on the River Kwai' director	DAVIDLEAN
'The Vampire Diaries' protagonist	ELENA
'We'd better skip it'	LETSNOT
43-Across ball carriers: Abbr	HBS
Aficionado	BUFF
AIDS-fighting drug	AZT
Al Qaeda stronghold	YEMEN
Attorney's presentation	EVIDENCE
Beggar's receptacle	TINCUP
Bit of old French bread	ECU
Brass producer, briefly	OCS
Burn	SCALD
California resort town	OJAI
Catchy thing?	NET
Cause of radioactivity	DECAY
Cellular messenger	RNA
Certain embedded Internet video	GIF
Charlottesville inst	UVA
Chi-town circlers	ELS
Chilean author Allende	ISABEL
Circular opening?	SOFTC
Coeur d'___	ALENE
Coffee bean variety	ARABICA
Common craps roll	SEVEN
Company that introduced Saran Wrap	DOW
Content of a demand to attend?	SUMMONSUBSTANCE
Cry of frustration	AARGH
Destination of NASA's Dawn probe	CERES
Difficult situation	SCRAPE
Diminish in strength	ABATE
Dive from a fire-breathing creature?	DRAGONDROP
Dribble glass, e.g	GAG
Economize to a fault	SKIMP
Envelope abbr	ENC
Faux pas	MISSTEP
Fay of 'King Kong'	WRAY
Feathers, pointy bill, long legs, etc.?	HERONMAKEUP
Feelings of guilt	PANGS
Filling entrees?	MEATPIES
Former Diet Pepsi spokesmodel	CAROLALT
Freaky funeral noise?	COFFINWHEEZE
From square one	ANEW
Game show V.I.P.'s	MCS
Garbage collector, informally?	COON
Gas station adjunct	MART
Gather (from)	INFER
Golfer Woosnam	IAN
Got the gold	WON
Greater or lesser follower	THAN
Half a game name that rhymes	ALAI
Handle of a plow?	DEERE
Harangues, with 'at'	RAILS
Hit with a charge	TASE
Holdups	SNAGS
Howard Johnson rival	RAMADA
Howard Stern rival	DONIMUS
Hullabaloo	FUSS
Imperfect	FLAWED
Intel products used at a nuclear facility?	FISSIONCHIPS
Juicy fruit	NECTARINE
Kind of contraception	ORAL
Kind of paste	TOMATO
Lake ___, biggest lake in South America	MARACAIBO
Laugh track content	HAHAS

Clue	Answer
Like a dutiful sentry	ONPOST
Like Isaac Asimov	PROLIFIC
Like some knights and warships	ARMORCLAD
Like the world's largest sultanate	OMANI
Make hot	RILE
Man of letters?	SAJAK
Many an art museum piece	OIL
Mess	RATSNEST
Missal storage site	PEW
Mystery prize	EDGAR
Naïfs	BABES
New York's ___ Island	STATEN
Northern California's ___ River	EEL
Not there yet	ENROUTE
Nymph jilted by Paris	OENONE
Old colonial masters	SAHIBS
Old fogy	FOSSIL
One with a colorful coat?	MANDM
Overseeing a work crew, e.g.?	FOREMANFUNCTION
Parking lot figure	RATE
Part of a contract	CLAUSE
Patriots' and Seahawks' org	NFL
Perform terribly	STINK
Perfumery measure	OUNCE
Period when rabbits stop fighting?	WARRENPEACE
Picayune quibble	NIT
Place first, second or third, say	MEDAL
Plant swelling	EDEMA
Points of view	TAKES
Possessions	STUFF
Prime Cuts brand	ALPO
Problems with hoses	KINKS
Red-faced	FLORID
Roman guardian spirit	LAR
Salad bar morsels	BACOS
Santa ___ winds	ANA
Seiji Ozawa, e.g	MAESTRO
Site of ancient Greek Olympics	ELIS
Skeletal enemy in Mario games	DRYBONES
Slangy greeting	SUP
Slanted columns	OPEDS
Smirnoff Ice, e.g	ALCOPOP
Some PC screens	LCDS
Speed skater Ohno	APOLO
Sport	WEAR
Square meal?	RAVIOLI
Symbol on a sarcophagus	ASP
Three-vowel word that sounds like a fourth vowel	EAU
Tornado Alley state: Abbr	NEB
Unceremonious removal	HEAVEHO
Upped	HIKED
Uses mouthwash, e.g	RINSES
Vegetable that's often fried	OKRA
Venti, vingt or zwanzig?	FOREIGNTWENTY
View from Big Ben	THAMES
W.W. II rationing agcy	OPA
Went on a run?	SKIED
What a spoiler might spoil	PLOT
What I will always be, alphabetically	NINTH
What Othello and Desdemona do in 'Othello'	ELOPE
What the jack of spades lacks	LEFTEYE
Woe for a sunburned sea monster?	KRAKENPEEL
Woodard of 'Primal Fear'	ALFRE
Wool source	LLAMA
Words of thanksgiving	GRACE
Workers' rights org	NLRB
___ flakes	OAT
___ lupus (gray wolf)	CANIS
___ point	FOCAL
___-Magnon	CRO