New York Times Crossword Solutions - Aug 08, 2014

Clue	Answer
'Bravo' preceder	ALFA
'Hmmmmm ...' [as hinted at by the three groups of black squares in the middle of the grid]	SOMETHINGSFISHY
'It was you,' operatically	ERITU
'NCIS' actor Joe	SPANO
'___ am your father' (classic 'Star Wars' line)	NOI
'___ Style,' first video with a billion YouTube views	GANGNAM
170 is its max score	GRE
A wild card is unlikely to beat one	TOPSEED
Anderson of 'Nurses'	LONI
As part of a series	ENSUITE
Best Picture of 1954 [see 17-Across]	ONTHEWATERFRONT
Bests	ONEUPS
Cadet, e.g	TRAINEE
Closes a session	LOGSOUT
Corral	ENCLOSE
Dessert preference	ALAMODE
Dictator's beginning	INRE
Excellent, in slang	ALLTHAT
First	MAIDEN
Gander	LOOKSEE
Goes for enthusiastically	LEAPSAT
Greek goddess of vengeance	NEMESIS
Hardly the assertive type	DOORMAT
Home to 'alabaster cities'	AMERICA
Hybrid on the road?	GASOHOL
Indian chief, once	NEHRU
It may contain mercury	ORE
Last part	TAILEND
Like 19-Across	MINED
Like a guitar string	TAUT
Like Saudi Arabia	OILRICH
Like some famous frescoes	SISTINE
Lovingly, on a music score	AMOROSO
Many a base player	CAD
Medical suffix	OSIS
Metrosexual sort	FOP
Mies van der ___	ROHE
Minute beef	NIT
Mythical predator	ROC
Neighbor of the Adam's apple	THYROID
No sophisticate	RUBE
One of its flavors is Mud Pie	EDYS
Optical separator	PRISM
Ovid's others	ALIA
Prefix with john	DEMI
Quintet comprising 'Ode to the West Wind'	SONNETS
Really long?	ACHE
Refuges	ARKS
Rostock bar stock	EIS
Rough housing	LEANTOS
Secretary of state before Dulles	ACHESON
See 51-Across	LEE
Sharp or flat	SIGN
Sounds from some mall temps	HOS
Southeast Asian temple	WAT
Spanish muralist	SERT
Starwort, e.g	ASTER
Suffix with switch	EROO
Test the strength of, in a way	TITRATE
They're clutched during some speeches	OSCARS
Things that ties never have	LOSERS
Those south of the border?	ESOS
Told, as a secret	LETINON
Under	SEDATED
Vietnam's ___ Dinh Diem	NGO
Where snowbirds flock	SUNBELT
Where Sotheby's is BID	NYSE
With 45-Across, Thor's co-creator	STAN
___ angle	ATAN
___ soup	MISO