New York Times - Jan 15 2001

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'Mystery!' host Diana RIGG
'Sistine Madonna' artist RAPHAEL
'Star Trek engineer SCOTTY
'Treasure Island' monogram RLS
31-Across entertainment DIXIELANDJAZZ
Angel's headwear HALO
Arctic phenomenon FLOE
Author Deighton LEN
Canyon sound ECHO
City founded in 1718 by the Sieur de Bienville NEWORLEANS
Clothing ATTIRE
Computer's core, briefly CPU
Craze MANIA
Doily material LACE
Early Mexican AZTEC
Early period in human history IRONAGE
Egyptian dam site ASWAN
Finder of secrets SPY
Flubs ERRS
Four-star reviews RAVES
Gently comes to a close WINDSDOWN
Gibbon or gorilla APE
Great Leap Forward leader MAO
Grief WOE
Hardly ordinary ODD
Hillary's successor as first lady LAURA
Hotelier Helmsley LEONA
It has a horn and charges TAXI
Item a fisherman uses ... or removes SCALE
Jack's partner JILL
Knocks RAPS
Legal claim LIEN
Length of yarn HANK
Lengthen or shorten ALTER
Lone Star Staters TEXANS
Looked at lustfully OGLED
Many a Kurd IRAQI
Mideast peninsula SINAI
Mine passage SHAFT
Clues Answers
Mowing or raking, e.g. CHORE
Nickname for 31-Across THEBIGEASY
Opposite WNW ESE
Patron saint of France DENIS
Philosophical ideal TAO
Pizzeria fixtures OVENS
Place for a keystone ARCH
Policy expert WONK
Polishing substance EMERY
Prince Edward's earldom WESSEX
Put ___ words INTO
Rams' ma'ams EWES
Roof overhang EAVE
Rudely ignore SNUB
S.A.T. org. ETS
Sheeplike OVINE
Slangy negative NOHOW
Slow, musically LARGO
Smelter's waste SLAG
Some cultural artifacts AMERICANA
Steer clear of EVADE
Sticky stuff TAR
Streaker in the night sky COMET
Stride PACE
Stripling LAD
Swing wildly FLAIL
Take place OCCUR
The Amazon and others RIOS
Thug GOON
Title holder OWNER
Tourist attraction in 31-Across FRENCHQUARTER
Ultraviolet ray blocker OZONE
Video producer, for short CAM
VW or Volvo AUTO
Where the Mets play SHEA
Wig, essentially HAIR
Wish for COVET
___ avis RARA
___-eyed SLOE