New York Times Crossword Solutions - Sep 02, 2014

Clue	Answer
'Can you give me any alternative?'	MUSTI
'Family Guy' baby	STEWIE
'It takes money to make money,' e.g	MAXIM
'Let me think ... yeah, that's stupid'	UMNO
'Oh, hell!'	DAMN
'To be,' in Latin	ESSE
'___ upon a time ...'	ONCE
Appomattox surrenderer	LEE
Bandmate of Crosby, Stills and Young	NASH
Barely manage, with 'out'	EKE
Batting helmet feature	EARFLAP
Battlefield food, for short	MRE
Belief systems	ISMS
Big Apple airport code	LGA
Bit of sound equipment	AMP
Blood component	PLASM
Card tricks, e.g	MAGIC
China's ___-tzu	LAO
Christopher who directed three Batman films	NOLAN
Citi Field mascot	MRMET
Contingency arrangement	PLANB
Crossed (out)	XED
Do one's best	STRIVE
Dog bullied by Garfield	ODIE
Female students, condescendingly	COEDS
First-week-of-school social event	MIXER
Fishhook attachment	SNELL
Fortuneteller	SEER
Functions	USES
Gatherings in which C.E.O.'s are chosen	BOARDMEETINGS
Got the goat of	IRKED
Groups of cops: Abbr	PDS
Hard row to ___	HOE
Headgear often worn backward	CAP
Hobo's accessory	BINDLE
Home located in the sticks?	NEST
Honeydews, e.g	MELONS
Indian drum	TABLA
Invite	ASK
John who directed 'The Maltese Falcon'	HUSTON
Late, as a video store rental	OVERDUE
Length x width, for a rectangle	AREA
Letters in a help wanted ad	EOE
Literary Jane	EYRE
Miner's find	ORE
Naive young woman	INGENUE
Not homo-	HETERO
Old hand	PRO
Palais ___ Sports (Paris arena)	DES
Parts of an ellipsis	DOTS
Perfect illustration	TEXTBOOKEXAMPLE
Place where one can come home and chill?	IGLOO
Pub tidbit	BEERNUT
Record company	LABEL
Rorschach test image	BLOT
See 50-Across	TIRE
Show on which Lennon and McCartney considered reuniting, for short	SNL
Slightest of complaints	PEEP
Small computer program	APPLET
Smart-alecky	SASSY
Snake poison	VENOM
Snoop Dogg, for one, since 2012	RASTA
Someone ___ (not mine or yours)	ELSES
Something horrible, with 'the'	PITS
Stop	CEASE
Unfortunate bottom line on an earnings report	NETLOSS
Unfulfilled potential	ROOMTOIMPROVE
Utterly wear out, in slang	WIPE
What tuition and the starts of 17-, 22-, 37-(?) and 47-Across are	COLLEGEEXPENSES
What's required in some passwords	NUMERAL
Wind instruments	OBOES
With 24-Down, blowout result	FLAT
With the concession that	ALBEIT
Yemeni port	ADEN