New York Times - Nov 17 2002

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Clues Answers
'Cheers' name MALONE
'Garden of Earthly Delights' painter BOSCH
'Laugh-In' segment SKIT
'That's ___!' ALIE
'The Hobbit' locales SHIRES
'The Hunt for Red October' and others? SUBSTORIES
'Thou ___ make me clean' (leper's words to Jesus) CANST
1948 event dubbed 'Operation Sandstone' ATEST
1960's-70's C.I.A. chief HELMS
1990's soaring asset values? FUNDMEMORIES
A bit SOMEWHAT
Ampules PHIALS
Animal that may charge BOAR
Art prop EASEL
Baby ___ TOOTH
Be a union buster? SECEDE
Biloxi to Galveston, e.g.? GULFCOURSE
Birds of the Arabian Nights ROCS
Breakfast item in old Rome? OVUM
Bridge position EAST
Buffoonish ANTIC
Cable managers, for short BOSNS
Capture CORRAL
CBer's number NINER
Central point CRUX
Champagne container SPLIT
City across the river from Council Bluffs OMAHA
Come by VISIT
Computer file suffix GIF
Container for acid CARBOY
Craft of 1492 NINA
Curve on the surface of a sphere RHUMB
D.O.T. org. FAA
Deluges TORRENTS
Dish that often has a filling OMELETTE
Dos preceder UNO
Dwelling ABODE
E.R. figures DOCS
Ear: Prefix OTO
Emulated a dove COOED
Epilogues CODAS
Exaggerates INFLATES
Eyeball SCOPEOUT
Fourth Estate PRESS
Get up ROUST
Gives wide berth to SHUNS
Grand ___ COULEE
Greek nymph with a musical-sounding name ARIA
Had OWNED
Heart afflictions ACHES
High point EVEREST
Home of Busch Gardens TAMPA
House speaker before Gingrich FOLEY
Hubbubs ADOS
Hungarian-born financier/philanthropist SOROS
Hustles SCAMS
Imperial or Blue Bonnet OLEO
Incomprehensible ESOTERIC
It's just a little out of place SHOW
Items of dressy attire HEELS
Kind of order IONIC
Kind of sole CREPE
Land west of Nod EDEN
Launch BOAT
Learning method OSMOSIS
Less ruddy PALER
Letterman, Leno, etc. HOSTS
Life-threatening ACUTE
Like Bo-Peep's charges OVINE
Like some floors WAXY
Clues Answers
Lummoxes LOUTS
Lush SOUSE
Manic cabbie's sign? NUTFORHIRE
Mars, e.g. DEUS
Meager POOR
Mentalist Geller URI
Monarch, for one RULER
Myrmecologist's study ANTS
Neighbor of Armenia IRAN
Nightstick? ROOST
Nose part NARIS
Not for here TOGO
Not out SAFE
Novitiate? NUNSTARTER
Nuclei CORES
Old political divs. SSRS
Old stories LORE
Old what's-___-name HER
Old-fashioned letter opener SIRS
Ones who may not be on speaking terms EXES
Outdoor party entertainment HULA
Parents REARS
Parts of an athletic schedule MEETS
Parts of some pins FLAGS
Pitying cry ALAS
Places of withdrawal ATMS
Play to a C-Span camera ORATE
Poe's 'The Mystery of ___ Roget' MARIE
Pointer ARROW
Popular story start ONCE
Prepare for storage, as papyrus FURL
Relative of vibrato TREMOLO
Relatives of raspberries HOOTS
Renoirs, Botticellis, etc. FINEART
Result of Sammy Sosa wearing a tight shoe? CORNONTHECUB
Rub the wrong way IRK
Runs a tab OWES
Rush STORM
Sane, briefly COMPOS
Scads ALOT
Scout rider TONTO
Settle securely ENSCONCE
Sits on a windowsill, say COOLS
Slipper MULE
Slopes lift TBAR
Some kind of a nut ACORN
Sounds heard when a fox enters a henhouse? ALARMCLUCKS
Spanker, e.g. PUNISHER
Stage directions EXITS
Stallion? HUBBYHORSE
Start to morph? ECTO
Swarm TEEM
Table scrap ORT
The Protestant Reformation, e.g. SCHISM
The Stooges, e.g. TRIO
The U.S. and Can. are in it OAS
Tic-tac-toe loser OXO
Touches ABUTS
Trunk TORSO
Tycoons BARONS
Unwelcome snorer ROOMMATE
What's more ALSO
When you might hear 'gee whiz'? AFTERSHUCKS
Where sleeves come from ARMHOLES
Where young Moses was found NILE
Who 'ever loved you more than I,' in song NOONE
Wild goat IBEX
Wire units MILS
Writer Morrison and others TONIS
Young New England terriers? BOSTONPUPS