New York Times Crossword July 8, 2009 (Across)

O, Yankees hero
Shakespeare, (what a closer!)
in a world of best seller multi-act payer cable shows,
perhaps lost his mind,
perhaps chews on a jag,
(compassionate, so satisfying sounds)
casts off,
acts the shrew.
Steal from Louis XIV, Louis XVI, et al.
organization dues.
Go on, beat it, I’ve thine eyes.
Roll on, boorish world.

Sisters-to-be flock, chorus line-style
With a yam truck
(or taro)
to the bard’s pale remains,
felling deep Bacardi concoction
with front fright, just learning
about half-dead Henry
of arable Penh, Cambodia
maybe 1978? 1981?
Bucky divides a mule
or a cat alternative front-vertical
a symbol to Hindu cow-god variation.

Up here Channel 101
Is archaically off (off?),
make an ants song about a fish song
Perhaps about, of, for ohm’s spell.