3/5/16 Answer New York Times Crossword

3/5/16
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1D
Choices in the baby department
TALCUMS

2D
Body undergoing desertification
ARAL SEA

3D
Ill-conceived
UNSOUND

4D
Capital in 1979-80 headlines
TEHRAN

5D
Lead-in to “Los Angeles” or “New Orleans”
NCIS

6D
Magic, on a sports ticker
ORL

7D
Quiet after the storm, maybe
SILENT TREATMENT

8D
Stain
IMBRUE

9D
Reacts to a bombshell
REELS

10D
Sevilla-to-Granada direction
ESTE

11D
Level in an org.
ECH

12D
A head might go over the top of it
BEER MUG

13D
Coming in waves?
ON RADIO

14D
Really embarrassed, maybe
BEET RED

20D
Song played at Staples Center after every Lakers victory
I LOVE LA

24D
Department in Picardy
OISE

25D
Crown
CONK

27D
Great sleuth of kid-lit
NATE

28D
Jimmy Carter’s mother
LILLIAN

31D
Weight allowance
TARE

32D
Consoling gestures
PATS

33D
See 23-Across
FARE

34D
Bewitched witch
TABITHA

35D
Barfly’s request
ANOTHER

36D
Spring break preceder, often
MIDTERM

38D
Pale yellow
JASMINE

39D
20th-century novelist who shared first and middle names with poet Emerson
ELLISON

40D
With very little hope
BLEAKLY

42D
Theater stage
BOARDS

43D
Like theater seating
TIERED

45D
Leavin’ on Your Mind singer, 1963
CLINE

48D
Stuff in a backpack
GEAR

49D
___ speak
AS WE

51D
Give the ax?
HEW

52D
What la Tierra orbits
SOL

1C
Like a drumhead
TAUT

5C
Forget about it!
NO SIREE, BOB!

15C
Former education secretary Duncan
ARNE

16C
What may hold a body of evidence?
CRIME SCENE

17C
Tie securely
LASH

18C
1970 1 hit with the lyric “Just call my name”
I’LL BE THERE

19C
She played Phyllis on TV’s “Phyllis”
CLORIS

21C
Film director ___ C. Kenton
ERLE

22C
No-goodnik
RAT

23C
With 33-Down, same old offerings
USUAL

24C
Heavy duty
ONUS

25C
Spock, e.g.: Abbr.
CMDR

26C
One speaking the language Plautdietsch
MENNONITE

28C
Dictatorial dispatcher on “Taxi”
LOUIE

29C
Unfortunate
SAD

30C
Encyclopedic
VAST

31C
Dictatorial type
TIN GOD

32C
Murder, Inc. Oscar nominee
PETER FALK

34C
Husky food?
TAMALE

37C
Overseas court figure
EARL

38C
Bush native to the South
JEB

41C
Santa ___
ANITA

42C
Get down to nothing?
BARE IT ALL

44C
Gym bunnies work on them
BODS

45C
Animal shelter
COTE

46C
Party divider
AISLE

47C
Engineered for life corp.
ITT

48C
Wow-producing look
GLAM

49C
Lack of punch
ANEMIA

50C
Olivia de Havilland’s Best Actress film, 1949
THE HEIRESS

53C
Trusting someone you don’t know, e.g.
RISK

54C
Present reality
HERE AND NOW

55C
___ ether
ENOL

56C
Try to win hands down?
ARM WRESTLE

57C
Gainsay
DENY