New York Times - Oct 30 1997

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Clues Answers
'Smooth Operator' singer SADE
'___ Knows' (Dion & the Belmonts hit) NOONE
Airhead DOLT
Aye EER
Baja California city TIJUANA
Beth's preceder ALEPH
Big surname in baseball ALOU
Billy goat's bleat MAA
Bit ATOM
Bristle on barley AWN
Chagrined ASHAMED
Chase in the movies ILKA
City NNE of Naples CASERTA
Country singer West DOTTIE
Creepy EERIE
Daughter of Cadmus, in myth INO
Die, e.g. TOOL
Discussion opportunity FORUM
Enduring IMMORTAL
Every garçon has one CEDILLA
F.D.R.'s Scottie FALA
Field of buffos OPERA
First word of the 'Aeneid' ARMA
Fury IRE
Gas in Vegas NEON
Group endured chickenhouse disaster? BROODSTOODFLOOD
Group standard NORM
Grow rapidly SHOOTUP
Indira's dress SARI
Inviolate SACRED
Island discovered by Magellan GUAM
K compound POTASH
Kind of press DRILL
Lass specified madras? MAIDSAIDPLAID.
Literary olios ANAS
Lug TOTE
Clues Answers
Mistreat ILLUSE
Nasty bugs FLUS
Noted actress-model IMAN
Number in a letter DATE
Over ANEW
Oversupply GLUT
Overturn TOPPLE
Pen that swims SWAN
Periodic payments STIPENDS
Pixies SPRITES
Prefix with polar AMBI
Prefix with system ECO
Quirk TIC
Relatives of Rafael TIAS
Rudely terse CURT
Sch. liaisons PTAS
See 45-Across BEAL
Significant danger to beef? GREATMEATTHREAT
Sledder's starting point HILLTOP
Smelter's stuff ORES
Some nerve OPTIC
Spiked LACED
Spirit of an evil evil spirit? FOULGHOULSOUL.
Starter homes? UTERI
Sweater eater MOTH
Texas's Houston SAM
They go over your part HATS
Towels DRIES
Treading the boards ONSTAGE
Turf SOD
W.B.A. stats TKOS
Weekly 'Whew!' TGIF
With 49-Down, 'The Firm' actor JOHN
Worry STEW
Yemeni's neighbor OMANI
___ rasa (clean slate) TABULA