New York Times - Dec 29 2001

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'Down, boy!' EASYDOESIT
'Peanuts' character SCHROEDER
'Steel Magnolias' co-star PARTON
1947 sound-barrier breaker YEAGER
2000 candidate NADER
Access provider OPENSESAME
Actress Gray and others ERINS
Alternative to a steak fry ONIONRING
Archaeologist's destination RUINS
Banquets DINES
Bold competitor ALL
Break down, in a way PARSE
Calmer VALIUM
Candle holders? CAKES
Canopy curtain VALANCE
Center's position PIVOT
Corrupt TAINT
Dapper Dans BLADES
Delirious person, often RAVER
Fit in BELONGED
Followed in Cratchit's footsteps CLERKED
Galápagos Islands shore dweller IGUANA
Game needs RULES
Gave up, slangily CAVED
Hard to keep in stock, say HOT
Heaven CLOUDNINE
Irreconcilables DIEHARDS
It may have a window: Abbr. ENV
Jumped off the page, maybe SCREAMED
Just out BRANDNEW
Kind of wrap SARAN
Least ingenuous SLYEST
Like Beethoven's Seventh Symphony INE
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Like some souls SAVED
Like tree leaves VEINY
Located along a large stream RIVERINE
Made more attractive SWEETENED
Makeup, e.g. TEST
Massage therapists, e.g. RELIEVERS
Mideast's ___ Desert SYRIAN
Obligation ONUS
Obviously amazed AGAPE
Orchestra section BRASSES
Pacing, say RESTLESS
Pet SNIT
Pilot's guidepost PYLON
Practice USAGE
Program participant ENROLLEE
Ready PRIMED
Roosevelt brain truster Adolf BERLE
Sacred sites HOLIES
Secrets ARCANA
Shot past? TENNISACE
Sing NAMENAMES
Skittish move START
Spock, e.g.: Abbr. CDR
Starting square ONE
They don't go off DUDS
They may be in a jam APRICOTS
Tooth trouble DECAY
Turgenev's birthplace OREL
Unlikely to excite BLAND
Worn down ABRADED
Youth SALADDAYS
___ Boru, Irish king who defeated the Norse BRIAN
___ of Solomon (noncanonical book) ODES