New York Times - Dec 16 2001

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Clues Answers
'Built better than it has to be' sloganeer AMANA
'Dat ___' (jazz tune) DERE
'Family Ties' mother ELYSE
'Full House' star SAGET
'Phooey!' BAH
'Suppose ...' WHATIF
'The Crucible' setting SALEM
'Two Years Before the Mast' writer DANA
1926 La Scala premiere TURANDOT
1983 Indy 500 winner Tom SNEVA
3:1, e.g. ODDS
Actor Buchholz HORST
Actor Lee Van ___ CLEEF
Actress on parole? DONNAFREED
Animals with twisted horns ELANDS
Aptly named author READE
Art Ross Trophy org. NHL
Attention-getter HEY
Avoided an accident, maybe SWERVED
Bar, in law ESTOP
Be humiliated EATCROW
Belgian advice columnist? ANNFLANDERS
Biddy HEN
Big Indian RAJAH
Blessing elicitor SNEEZE
Book before Daniel: Abbr. EZEK
Bootleggers' worries RAIDS
Burlesque bit SKIT
Cafeteria needs TRAYS
Canon rival NIKON
Cassio's rival IAGO
Checks out carefully CASES
Chicken general? ROBERTEFLEE
Clamp shape CEE
Clark's 'Mogambo' co-star AVA
Collinsworth of N.F.L. fame CRIS
Colorless gas with a pungent odor, for short HCL
Cousin of 'Rah!' OLE
Cross-dressing comedian? CHRISFROCK
Dawdling actor? JOHNFRITTER
Donut, mathematically TOROID
Duelers' units PACES
Dusk, to Donne EEN
Enter, as data READIN
Expanse AREA
Extras FRILLS
Eyeball covers SCLERAE
Fanatical RABID
Farsi speaker IRANI
Feline, to Tweety TAT
Financing abbr. APR
French illustrator Gustave DORE
Gadabouts GOERS
Gloomy Gus NAYSAYER
Going ___ ATIT
Golf's ___ Cup RYDER
Huxtable boy THEO
It's outstanding DEBT
Itches YENS
Jazz (up) HOKE
Junior partner, maybe PROTEGE
Kind of ink INDIA
Kunta ___ ('Roots' role) KINTE
Ladybug's prey APHID
Lahore garb SARI
Like 'The X-Files' EERIE
Lock TRESS
Look after TEND
Mad-dog singer? DAVIDLEEFROTH
Make more potent LACE
Clues Answers
Michigan town where Thomas Dewey was born OWOSSO
Miniature racer SLOTCAR
Nationalists' capital TAIPEI
News-making 1926 Channel swimmer EDERLE
None the worse for wear, emotionally UNSCARRED
Not many AFEW
Not shut, to Shelley OPE
Nuremberg trial defendant SPEER
Ocean menaces ORCAS
On top AHEAD
One-named supermodel IMAN
Online event CHAT
Ovid opus AMORES
Pablum eater INFANT
Part of an oil lamp WICK
Passport producer HONDA
Per APIECE
Picnic staple ICECHEST
Place for bateaux MER
Prefix with -hedron OCTA
Prefix with -hedron TRI
Prefix with function DYS
Prefix with linear RECTI
Quotable one WIT
Results of some bad QB passes INTS
Rock's ___ Fighters FOO
Romance novelist Georgette HEYER
Runaway of rhyme SPOON
Schiller work adapted by Beethoven ODETOJOY
Science of programmable machines ROBOTRY
Screwball actress? VERONICAFLAKE
Sean ___ Lennon ONO
Second-rate LESSER
Sentence part: Abbr. PRED
Setting of many Hardy novels DORSET
Shipping weights TARES
Showy shrub AZALEA
Singer in a brawl? JOHNNIEFRAY
Site of 1970's marches SOWETO
Sober STAID
Some newspaper essays OPEDS
Some Semites ARABS
Some taters IDAHOES
Spleen IRE
Spotted SEEN
Stereotypical bouquet bringer SUITOR
Store, as wine AGE
Terrif SWELL
The Admiral Benbow ___ ('Treasure Island' locale) INN
The twist, once CRAZE
Thingamajigs DOODADS
This puzzle's surplus EFFS
Took a powder LEFT
Toys with tails KITES
Turn in REDEEM
Turners of blind eyes CONDONERS
Twisty turns ESSES
Tyro ROOKIE
Uninterruptedly ONEND
Up for grabs UNOWNED
W.C.'s LAVS
Waiting IDLE
Wanderer HOBO
White rat, e.g. ALBINO
Widens, in a way REBORES
Winter Palace figures TSARS
Word said while scratching the head GEE
Words following 'often' ASNOT
Work ___ OFART
___ Harbour, Fla. BAL