New York Times - May 11 2003

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'And now ...' sayer EMCEE
'Dance On Little Girl' singer ANKA
'Dumb' one and namesakes DORAS
'Mr. Apollinax' poet ELIOT
'Settle down!' COOLIT
'The Big Chill' director KASDAN
'Whip It' band DEVO
'___ the morning' TOPO
1999 Ron Howard film EDTV
Adder relative ASP
Ask for BEG
Became fond of TOOKTO
Best Director of 1934, '36 and '38 CAPRA
Beverage company formerly known as Chero-Cola NEHI
Big name in pest control DCON
Blacklisting org. of the 50's HUAC
Bon ___ AMI
Building material STONE
Busy ONTHEGO
Bygone greeting AVE
Cab fixtures CBS
Cheese steak topper ONION
Climb ASCEND
Collected REAPED
Colon substitute EMDASH
Commotion CLAMOR
Defeatee ALSORAN
Desire HOPEFOR
Discontinue CEASE
Dope INFO
Eats HAS
Engine-cleaning brand STP
Expresses boredom with SIGHSAT
Fantasy author McCaffrey ANNE
Film dog TOTO
Flat INSIPID
Floor cleaner WETMOP
Forge things ANVILS
Ft. Myers-to-Daytona Beach dir. NNE
Geological sample CORE
George Gershwin's first hit song SWANEE
Go southwest to go south, say ZIG
Grannies NANAS
Green-lighted OKD
Gulf of ___, next to Hainan island TONKIN
Hand waver? ARM
Head, slangily NOB
Hears LEARNSOF
Heater GAT
Holiday in which to say 'Chuc mung nam moi!' TET
How urgent tasks should be done SOONEST
Impertinent ones SNIPS
In the movies ONSCREEN
Inventions LIES
It may come with charges TNT
Its user can't change it DIAPER
Kind of nut KOLA
Last letter in radio lingo ZULU
Late ___ FEE
Lic. issuer DMV
Life sci. ECOL
Like Liz Taylor, many times REWED
Like some hotels SRO
Like some ulcers DUODENAL
Luminous sign NEON
Mag magnate HEF
Many an egotist SNOB
Mawkish SAPPY
Med. school class ANAT
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Milanese mister SIGNOR
Mirror IMITATE
Mushroom cap PILEUS
Musician Brian ENO
Mythical monster ORC
Newbery-winning author Scott ___ ODELL
Nonlearner, proverbially OLDDOG
Noted honey eater POOH
Oklahoma county seat ADA
One assigned to a bomb? STAR
One in a line SCION
Paddle, in a way CANOE
Peasants' wear BODICES
Permit ENABLE
Pink-flowered tree REDBUD
Pink-slip CAN
Pittsburgh's ___ Museum WARHOL
Potato turnover KNISH
Presidential inits. HST
Presidential inits. RWR
Proctor's call TIME
Put in stitches SEW
Ready to be played TUNED
Recognizes, briefly IDS
Reflux EBB
Rest of the afternoon SIESTA
Restroom label BOYS
Result of a big break? CAST
Rosh ___ HASHANAH
Round ends? TKOS
Round of four SEMIS
Sartre play set in hell NOEXIT
School of thought ISM
See 118-Across ALTO
Set pieces DISHES
Showroom display MODELS
Soil STAIN
Some reservations ROOMS
Soprano Renata SCOTTO
Sore ACHY
Stable diet HAY
Streaked STRIATE
Struck, old-style SMIT
Subject of Variety ballyhoo PIC
Subject word NOUN
Sucking the life from LEECHING
Suffix with bull or bear ISH
Switch words ONOFF
Talked a lot NOISED
Texas Ranger foe COMANCHE
The Police, e.g. TRIO
Trailing business? UHAUL
Trip choice: Abbr. RTE
Trounce WHOMP
Twice cuatro OCHO
Unfinished Anthony Burgess work about a punctual primate? ACLOCKWORKORANG
Unfinished Charles Darwin work about mints? THEORIGINOFSPECIE
Unfinished Henry James work about Gainsborough's 'Blue Boy'? THEPORTRAITOFALAD
Unfinished Ian Fleming work about James Bond's affection for his boss? THESPYWHOLOVEDM
Unfinished James Grady work about time-sharing? SIXDAYSOFTHECONDO
Unfinished Norman Mailer work about strip-searching narcotics smugglers? THENAKEDANDTHEDEA
Unfinished Rudyard Kipling work about a future son-in-law? THEMANWHOWOULDBEKIN
Unwarm welcome HISS
Viacom-owned cable channel TNN
Water nymph with a fatal kiss UNDINE
Winter buildup, at times STATIC
With 4-Across, part of Silicon Valley PALO
Worn ABRADED
___ Jima IWO