New York Times Crossword Solutions - Aug 21, 2014

Clue	Answer
'___ bag of shells' (Ralph Kramden malapropism)	SOPORIFIC
1948 Literature Nobelist	LOO
26-Across of a North Carolina '-ville'	POLEPOSITION
Absorbed	ASIAN
Aid in weed control	WIN
Almost any hit by Prince or Queen	GATED
American ___	CAKE
Ayatollah Khomeini, e.g	HOE
Bean product?	TARRED
Benjamin	LALALA
Besmirched	TEAPOT
Biota part	FLAP
Byelorussian ___: Abbr	FOLLOWED
Carrier to Tokyo	TOTO
Choice connections	SOUR
Clump up	IDEA
Cocktail order	EVEN
Common break time	SAMOA
Core	KEIRA
Cozy thing?	LEI
Cryptozoological beast	GARTER
Direct	LIEGE
Feature of many a movie house	REFER
Feudal lord	SPY
Film pooch	EPONYM
First place	ITER
Freeloader	ETHNO
Friend of Homer on 'The Simpsons'	MESNE
H.S. exam	ORS
Hip	DEPOSE
Hose attachment	AMIN
Impostor	ALAW
Intermediate, in law	DEISM
Is ___ unto oneself	ASHE
John of Liverpool	SPONGE
Knightley of 'Pirates of the Caribbean'	ETES
Large-scale	SSR
Last name in despotism	MODERN
Left unsaid	TACIT
Legal borders?	SPOKE
Like Olympic years	EDENS
Like some retirement communities	ELS
Mail conveniences ... or a hint to eight squares in this puzzle	BASS
Many, many moons	CARL
Mark Twain's belief	ELIOT
Means of murder in some Agatha Christie novels	PITH
Mickey Mouse pics, e.g	LEE
Mobster's 'canary'	PHONY
Offspring	OLDIE
One that's HI-strung?	POPCORNPOPPER
Pace	TEMPO
Pitching stats	POISONPOWDER
Plant, maybe	WII
Prefix with botany	ISOLDE
Prepare to give blood, perhaps	MAKEAFIST
Return mailer, for short	RAPT
Roman road	ANA
Seasons in Lyon	REDO
See 16-Across	FLORA
Send	ELATE
Serfs, e.g	CLASS
Sleep-inducing	SASE
Spike in movie sales?	POSTOFFICEBOXES
Stereo control	EON
Succeeded	YETI
Super Mario Galaxy platform	CELS
Testify	ISSUE
Throwing one's weight around, in international relations	POWERPOLITICS
To-do	SHIITE
Umbrella part	PSAT
Wagnerian heroine	ERAS
[I'm not listening ... I can't he-e-ear you!]	AMERE
___ big	EXTENSIVE
___-American	TENAM