Boston Globe - May 4 2008

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Clues Answers
'Swan Lake' princess ODETTE
'The Crying Game' star REA
1970s Ugandan tyrant IDIAMIN
A pop EACH
An unnamed person SOMEONE
Artist in acid ETCHER
Bad, in Barcelona MALO
Be prolific TEEM
Beatles chartbuster EIGHTDAYSAWEEK
Before you know it INASPLITSECOND
Big vultures CONDORS
Biter in a swamp CROC
Blown line BLOOPER
Blunders at Fenway ERRS
Bring in, as sheaves REAP
Bullfight venue ARENA
Café order AULAIT
Car for four or more SEDAN
Classic Verdi opera ERNANI
Cold starter GERM
Decade of flappers TWENTIES
Drive forward IMPEL
Electrician’s unit VOLT
Eye or planet ORB
Fainting fit SWOON
Faithful TRUE
Far from robust ANEMIC
Feeling of rue REGRET
First name in orbiting YURI
Flipped out LOSTIT
For the birds AVIAN
For the time being PROTEM
Forced open PRISED
From times of yore OLDEN
Ghost WRAITH
Grapefruit relatives POMELOS
Grow from a larva PUPATE
Guide’s offering TOUR
Had a bite ATE
Harp on BELABOR
Having no slack TAUT
HBO family SOPRANOS
Head honcho BOSS
Heaps of fun AHOOT
High wispy clouds CIRRI
Hymn of high praise PAEAN
Intestinal juice component EREPSIN
Joplin piano piece RAG
Kitchen clock TIMER
Lice-to-be NITS
Like brine SALINE
Like Ogden Nash verse PUNNY
Like sidewalk dining ALFRESCO
Lion-headed monster CHIMERA
Loads ATON
Longtime Syrian leader ASSAD
Make into law ENACT
Mall bag TOTE
Meaning of amo ILOVE
Meet one’s demise PERISH
Monster star THERON
Most like a runt PUNIEST
Mounts for bikers HOGS
Musical shift SEGUE
Myopic Mister MAGOO
Need a bath badly REEK
Network with an eye CBS
Nones and vespers CANONICALHOURS
On the bounding main ATSEA
Clues Answers
Operate RUN
Oxidizes RUSTS
Packrat HOARDER
Painter Jan van __ EYCK
Palindromic diarist NIN
Patella’s place KNEE
Pertaining to birth NATAL
Peter of 'Herman’s Hermits' NOONE
Pick-me-up cupful TEA
Pike with no tolls FREEWAY
Plato’s P’s RHOS
Preceder of “haw” HEE
Prefix on structure INFRA
Preschooler TOT
President No. 27 TAFT
Problem for timber DRYROT
Puccini heroine MIMI
Purplish pink ROSEATE
Rat DESERTER
Razor brand ATRA
Readers’ club choice BOOKOFTHEMONTH
Reason for action MOTIVE
Recipe amt. TSP
Rocks at the bar ICE
Rodeo catcher LASSO
Sailor’s stability SEALEGS
Say “nyah-nyah” to TAUNT
School period LUNCH
Seamus Heaney’s home IRELAND
Secret burial place CRYPT
Show full of songs REVUE
Sidekick of few words TONTO
Singer’s prop MIC
Some French sculptures RODINS
Some gems BERYLS
Source of fine wool MERINO
Sport for heavy men SUMO
Starter for some athletes? TRI
Stat for Schilling ERA
Tailor at work ALTERER
Team from Indiana PACERS
Teammate of A-Rod DEREK
Ten pins in two balls SPARE
Tic-tac-toe win OOO
Time of your life? AGE
Tomorrow’s school? ROE
Tops LIDS
Twin Cities sch., informally UMINN
Two-letter cluster BIGRAM
Varanasi’s old name BENARES
Walk a beat PATROL
West African people FULANI
What Bannister broke FOURMINUTEMILE
What buds can do TASTE
What the Peace of Westphalia ended THIRTYYEARSWAR
Whomp in sports SHELLAC
Wide shoe spec EEEE
With a fresh twist ANEW
Witty word MOT
Wore ERODED
x 10 TENFOLD
Yarn STORY
“Ask __ questions ... ” MENO
“Believe me!” ISWEAR
“No more seats!” SRO
“Shorty” in 'Get Shorty' DEVITO
“So’s __ old man!” YER
“The Censor” of Rome CATO
“__ little teapot ... ” IMA