New York Times - Apr 13 2003

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Clues Answers
'Fiddlesticks!' RATS
'From Here to Eternity' wife KAREN
'How come?' comeback CUZ
'Number two with a Coke,' e.g. ORDER
'Well said!' TOUCHE
'You betcha' YEP
'___ say more?' NEEDI
(You) love: Fr. AIMES
... and I am ___ MODERATELYCHALLENGING
... and I am ___ TWENTYONEBYTWENTYONE
... and I have ___ ONEHUNDREDFORTYWORDS
... then I must be ___ TODAYSCROSSWORDPUZZLE
114-chapter book KORAN
1978 Peace Nobelist SADAT
2001 honor for J. K. Rowling OBE
Acclaims LAUDS
Affect FEIGN
All-time leader in r.b.i.'s AARON
Amulet CHARM
Arch type OGEE
Arrives in time for MAKES
Author Paretsky and others SARAS
Avengement WRATH
Basketball star Brand ELTON
Blotto or stinko, e.g. SLANG
Boys Town neighbor OMAHA
Brown, for one IVY
Bus part REAR
Calif.'s Sierra Nevadas, e.g. MTNS
Cartoon collectibles CELS
Clam-digging locale SHORE
Coast Guard mem. ENS
Cold, as snow in Spain FRIA
Coll., e.g. SCH
Comedian Margaret CHO
Confine LIMIT
Counteract NEGATE
Den din ROAR
Directional devices VANES
Diving birds AUKS
Early stage ONSET
Escapes slowly OOZES
Excessive interest USURY
Exorcist's target DEMON
Farthest point of the Lewis and Clark expedition OREGON
Finito OVER
Florida vacation area KEYS
Former Hungarian leader Kadar JANOS
Graph lines AXES
Group produced by Phil Spector, with 'the' CRYSTALS
Gullet MAW
Hebrew T TAV
Hermit LONER
Hookey players TRUANTS
How coquettes chat COYLY
If I have ___ SEVENTYTWODARKSQUARES
Indolence SLOTH
Intact WHOLE
Inviting HOMEY
It may have you going in circles SKATE
La lead-in SOL
Lawyer's abbr. ESQ
Lean (on) RELY
Like beasts of burden LADEN
Like beech leaves OVATE
Like Dover's cliffs CHALK
Like moiré patterns WAVY
Like some custards LEMONY
Like the Muslim calendar LUNAR
Liquid fat OLEIN
Clues Answers
Loosen UNDO
Loser to F.D.R. LANDON
Maria's intended in 'West Side Story' CHINO
Michelangelo marble PIETA
Name in 'Popeye' OYL
Nos. on checks AMTS
Not sure RISKY
Noted military review JANES
Office stations DESKS
Olden BYGONE
One side of a vote NAYS
One who knows the drill DENTIST
One, informally BUCK
Order from a person with a gun MOVE
Out of jail FREED
Out of town AWAY
Overacted HAMMY
Part of a simple bouquet DAISY
Part of CBS: Abbr. SYS
Perfectly reasonable SANE
Philatelic purchases PANES
Piquancy ZEST
Positive principle YANG
Postulates ASSUMES
Pound of verse EZRA
Powerful couple in publishing, once LUCES
Predator SHARK
Pretzel shape KNOT
Printer's ink TONER
Protect, in a way ENCASE
Puts in ADDS
QBs' goals TDS
Range that divides Eurasia URALS
Ration ALLOT
Roald Dahl's chocolatier WONKA
Rubber gaskets ORINGS
Russian ruler: Var. TZAR
Shah Pahlavi REZA
Showing obsequiousness BOWED
Shows fallibility ERRS
Signed off on OKED
Site of Maine's largest university ORONO
Sleepaway, e.g. CAMP
Some wrestlers SUMOS
Songwriter Perkins CARL
Source of the line 'The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one' OMAR
Study hard CRAM
Suffixes with depend and differ ENCES
Summers abroad ETES
Sumptuousness LUXE
Sycophant YESMAN
Syrian president ASSAD
Team with which Derrick Coleman was the 1991 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year NETS
They keep control of their faculties DEANS
Title character in a 1922 Broadway hit ABIE
Turn inside out EVERT
TV character first seen on 'Happy Days' MORK
TV's Matt and Andy LAUERS
Uncontrolled FRENETIC
Unitalicized ROMAN
Use, as a tip ACTON
Uttered ORAL
Waldorf salad ingredients WALNUTS
When repeated, is specific NAMES
Whence the phrase 'Wisdom is better than rubies' PROVERBS
Where soldiers go OFFTOWAR
Winding way TRAIL
Winter Olympics gold medalist Kulik ILIA
Winter pear BOSC
Young newts EFTS