New York Times - May 17 1997

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'Minimum' amount WAGE
1953 Mel Ferrer film LILI
Above, in a text SUPRA
Aerobics gear LEOTARDS
Apprentice INTERN
Attire RAIMENT
Birthplace, metaphorically CRADLE
Blow the whistle TOOT
Brace DUO
Brandish WIELD
Careless SLIPSHOD
Computer availability UPTIME
Condense ABRIDGE
Consumption USE
Crab Key fortress villain DRNO
Disconnect UNCOUPLE
Doubt MISTRUST
Drops out of contention FADES
Easy victory RUNAWAY
Employs a scope AIMS
Equipment for a work detail SLEDGES
First name in photography ANSEL
Fort Sill resident SOONER
Frat recruits FROSH
Get some air? RESPIRE
Greta Garbo portrayal CAMILLE
Hit the canvas SEESTARS
Honshu honorific SAN
Horsehide or pigskin BALL
Hymn opening ADESTE
Implored PLED
It's stuck in a corner POSTAGE
Jalousie unit SLAT
Lapidary, at times ENGRAVER
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Mature, in a way DUE
Members of the birch family ALDERS
Memorable flights SOLOS
Minimally worded TERSEST
Modernize UPGRADE
Moonlighting SIDELINE
More intense STRONGER
Most in need of a moisturizer DRYEST
Nappies DIAPERS
New England 'catch of the day' SCROD
Nixon Defense Secretary LAIRD
Non-P.C. suffix ESS
One of the Hindu Trimurti SHIVA
Opposite of gregarious ASOCIAL
Other, to Orozco OTRA
Pillowcase material MUSLIN
Plutarch work MORALS
Rung of a ship's 'ladder' RATLINE
Shangri-la ELYSIUM
Site of a cold snap? ICICLE
Spans CROSSES
These yield gum arabic ACACIAS
Tizzy SNIT
Triggers IGNITES
TV colonel HOGAN
TV title on a license plate LALAW
Typewriter roller PLATEN
Understanding ENTENTE
University official REGENT
Very enthusiastic, as a fan RABID
Wayhouse INN
With stridor SHRILLY
Yellow-skinned fruit CASABA
___ School (20th-century art group) ASHCAN