New York Times Crossword Solutions - Sep 05, 2014

Clue	Answer
'Beats me'	IDUNNO
'Just about done'	ONETOGO
'Me too'	ASAMI
'War and Peace' has a lot of them: Abbr	PGS
1957 Patrick White novel adapted into a 1986 opera	VOSS
Alvin Ailey's field	MODERNDANCE
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Phil	NIEKRO
Best	TOP
Biblical ending	ETH
Blood test letters	HDL
Break down	DECONSTRUCT
Bruin legend	ORR
Charging for every little thing	NICKELANDDIMING
Comprehends	KENS
Contents of a well	INK
Corp. whose name is also its stock symbol	ITT
Courage	GUTS
D.C. player	NAT
Dash letters	RPM
Dawg	BRO
Deterioration of standards by competitive forces	RACETOTHEBOTTOM
Didn't clash (with)	WENT
Diversified investment strategy	ASSETALLOCATION
Elderly person on a fixed income	OLDAGEPENSIONER
Eugenia Washington (co-founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution), to George Washington	GREATGRANDNIECE
Fall mos	OCTS
Ford from the past	TORINO
Friendly start?	ECO
G.P. grp	HMO
Go outside the calling area, say	ROAM
Head-scratching	ODD
Heartlessly abandons	LEAVESTODIE
Hymn opener	ADESTE
It's a mouthful	CHAW
It's easy to swallow	CAPLET
It's stranded, for short	RNA
L. Frank Baum princess	OZMA
Lanford Wilson's 'The ___ Baltimore'	HOTL
Lang. class	ENG
Like some broody teens	EMO
Messenger de Dieu	ANGE
Metric weight	TONNE
Much like	ALA
Native New Zealanders	MAORIS
On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code	WAITING
One coming out of its shell?	CICADA
Oomph	GAS
Pack (in)	CRAM
Pasta ___ (Italian dish, informally)	FAZOOL
PepsiCo brand	SOBE
Political machine practice	PATRONAGEHIRING
Propagandists' detention site	REEDUCATIONCAMP
Ray of old pictures	ALDO
See 45-Across	INON
See 46-Across	ART
Silents actress Negri	POLA
Silkscreen target	TEE
Smooth-leaved ___	ELM
Some appliances, for short	GES
Some backwoods folks	HILLBILLIES
Televised fights?	ADWARS
Title heroine of a Wagner opera	ISOLDE
Tumblers	STEMLESSGLASSES
What a chicken feels	FEAR
With 11-Down, become a part of	GET
With 53-Down, many Marcel Duchamp works	DADA
Word that is its own synonym when spelled backward	PAT
___ colada	PINA