New York Times - Dec 22 2002

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Clues Answers
'Bus Stop' playwright INGE
'Damage' director MALLE
'Midnight Cowboy' role RATSO
'O ___ babbino caro' (Puccini aria) MIO
'Put your rear down!' PARKIT
'The Flies' dramatist SARTRE
'The Name of the Rose' figure ABBOT
'When I was ___ ...' ALAD
'___ calls?' ANY
1917 Theda Bara role, informally CLEO
1930's-60's columnist who wrote 'Washington Merry-Go-Round' PEARSON
45-Across had one ASP
A helping hand AID
Abbr. after some church names AME
Actress Marceau of 'Braveheart' SOPHIE
Airport abbr. ETD
Article in Die Zeit EIN
Attack COMEAT
Baseball's Piniella LOU
Beast BRUTE
Betray, in a way RATON
Bewails LAMENTS
Big shock? MOP
Brand in the frozen foods section EGGO
California county or its seat FRESNO
Came down ALIT
Can. province PEI
Casual time to start work TEN
Central principle of Baha'ism UNITY
Combat WAR
Comment from a lonely-heart IMISSYOU
Country dance locale BARN
Cusp EDGE
Davis was its Pres. CSA
Directional suffix ERN
Disencumber RID
Down East MAINE
Drug for a poison victim, maybe IPECAC
End of the verse SWEATSOCKSORPANTYHOSE
Enter the picture APPEAR
Epistle of the New Testament ROMANS
Event covered by paparazzi GALA
False NOTSO
Famed family of auto racers UNSERS
Field for a gov. or a sen. POLIT
File EMERY
Film cartoon with the voice of Woody Allen ANTZ
First of a Latin trio AMO
Florida collegian GATOR
Funny Anne MEARA
Gets comfortable with ADAPTSTO
Go astray ERR
Grace, e.g. PRAYER
Grit METTLE
Growing amount? ACRE
Gulf sight OILER
Half-___ (pipsqueaks) PINTS
Head car, maybe HEARSE
Hero's medal: Abbr. DSC
Hide, in a way ENCODE
Hilton rival HYATT
In-flight MIDAIR
Indicate POINTTO
Intensifying word ITSELF
Inventor Howe ELIAS
James ___, who wrote 'The Thin Red Line' JONES
Kind of beam LASER
Kind of eyes GOOGOO
Knucklehead CLOD
Lab subjects RATS
Clues Answers
Lallygags LOITERS
Last of a series OMEGA
Limo occupant, perhaps VIP
Linguist Chomsky NOAM
Lively ANIMATO
Marilyn Monroe feature MOLE
Melody AIR
Might POWER
More squalid SEEDIER
Mosque head IMAM
Most acute KEENEST
Mozart's 'Dove ___' SONO
Mrs. John ___ (Pocahontas) ROLFE
Nissan sedan ALTIMA
No longer secret SEEN
Not an exact fig. EST
Not brilliant PALE
Not lost CLAIMED
Not straight SNAKING
Nuclear event, in headlines ATEST
Oklahoma Indian OTO
On earth HERE
On high ARISEN
One cycle per second HERTZ
One of the Mamas and the Papas CASS
Ornamental cord on clothing PIPING
Pals AMIGOS
Part of a car test course ESS
Photo ___ OPS
Played (around) HORSED
Popular cuisine THAI
Purely extra ADDEDIN
Put to flight ROUTED
Rattles on YAKS
Relative of 'Hmm ...' GEE
Removing one's hat in an elevator, e.g. CUSTOM
Robe material SATIN
Roman called 'the Censor' CATO
Rub ABRADE
Rugged ridge ARETE
Sandpapered SMOOTHED
Scottish town of Sir Walter Scott's youth KELSO
Self-titled 1986 R & B album ARETHA
Skinny DIRT
Soap plant AMOLE
Soft shade PASTEL
Start of a Christmas verse HANGUPYOURSTOCKINGSDO
Start of North Carolina's motto ESSE
Stay VISIT
Suntan lotion letters SPF
Survey choice OTHER
Tabula ___ (clean slate) RASA
Terse critiques UGHS
They precede many lists COLONS
They're uplifting BRAS
Tolkien cannibal ORC
Urge YEN
Utah skiing resort ALTA
Vacation locale SPA
Verse, part 2 BUTPLEASEDONOTSUPPOSE
Verse, part 3 THATSANTAYEARNSTOVIEW
Viva-voce ORAL
Wear away ERODE
Where grapes are grown VINERY
Whispers BREATHES
Wisecracked JOKED
Withered SERE
___ de combat HORS
___ Park, Colo. ESTES
___-Magnon CRO