New York Times - Nov 2 1997

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'Jacta est ___' ('The die is cast') ALEA
'Picnic' playwright INGE
'So ___' BEIT
'The Maltese Falcon' role SAMS
'Welcome aboard' sloganeer UNITED
'Wow' GEE
'___ cannot wither her': Shak. AGE
60's chess champ TAL
A Jackson GLENDA
A party to INON
Actor ___ Phillips LOUD
Affair FLING
Astronaut Bean et al. ALANS
Atlanta institution EMORY
Bar on wheels CCAR
Best Picture of 1968 OLIVER
Best Picture of 1995 BRAVEH
Biblical kingdom MOAB
Burdened LADEN
Cabins and such ABODES
Ceremonial burner CENSER
Cheers HENS
Chem. majors' degrees BSS
Comics girlfriend TESSTRUEH
Command at sea AVAST
Composer Bernstein ELMER
Creepers VINES
Cub Sandberg and others RYNES
Decree ADJUDGE
Dentist's instruction RINSE
Drink mixer CSODA
E. L. Doctorow best seller RAGTIME
Eager DYING
Ear ornaments DSTUDS
Echolocation device SONAR
Electra's brother ORESTES
F.B.I. storage FILES
First golfer to win all four majors SARAZEN
Fixed RIGGED
Flourish THRIVE
Gay Nineties bon vivant DJIMBRADY
General Motors' birthplace FLINT
Goals ENDS
Gorge SATIATE
Got on FARED
Grommets EYELETS
Hang PEND
Hem and haw STAMMER
Hook shape ESS
Ill omen THEACEOFSS
In ___ (harmonious) SYNC
Ineffective IMPOTENT
Intimate CBY
It may be continental BREAKFAST
Jai alai locale FRONTON
Kimberley features DMINES
Kind of contract SWEETH
Kind of organ SENSE
Kind of pigeon HOMING
Kind of vaccine SALK
Leaf collectors? EAVES
Lets go of CEDES
Lights out SCRAMS
Like a March wind BRISK
Like Pegasus ALATE
Live wire, so to speak DOER
Loads ALOT
Maine Senator SNOWE
Marilyn's 'Bus Stop' role CHERIE
Milieu for Queen Elizabeth II OCEAN
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Most foul RANKEST
Much-discussed drug AZT
N.B.A. center Longley and others LUCS
Nags they're not STEEDS
Nasty SNIDE
Nathan Hale was one YALIE
Needing Dramamine, maybe SEASICK
Neighbor of Syr. LEB
Not flat, as hair POUFED
Oktoberfest sight TENT
One of a watery quintet ERIE
Originator of cutout dresses ERTE
Overwhelms SMOTHERS
Padre's brothers TIOS
Played ACTED
Plunges HEADERS
Pocahontas's husband ROLFE
Poetic time of day EEN
Powwow PALAVER
Precocious 1955 fictional heroine ELOISE
Preliminary drudgery SWORK
Quiet craft GLIDERS
Ranch menace PUMA
Res ___ loquitur IPSA
Ruffle ABASH
Ruminates MUSES
Runway sight MODEL
Sarges' superiors LOUIES
Schoolboy collars ETONS
Scrape (out) EKE
Sell down the river, in a way RATON
Shade of green BERYL
Sign INK
Skater Midori ITO
Sole supporter? CLEAT
Some eagles ERNS
Some synthetics ORLONS
Space station supply AIR
Splits RIVES
Squares accounts AVENGES
Steamboat stops LEVEES
Still going ALIVE
Strictly speaking LITERALLY
Strikes out BOMBS
Suffix with 20-Across ITE
Suffix with free DOM
Target AIMAT
Tea SOCIAL
They're always thin VENEERS
Think tank member IDEAMAN
This, to Cervantes ESTO
Tickles AMUSES
Transfer PASSON
Undiminished WHOLE
Union Pacific terminus OMAHA
Vegas bookings NIGHTCACTS
Wallops BELTS
Way of standing PAT
Wears off ABRADES
Weasels' cousins MARTENS
Welles's 'The Third Man' role LIME
What a star may stand for STATE
Where Slyne Head is EIRE
Wine choice ROSE
Without restraint INSS
Woof alternative ARF
Yule decorations SANTAS
___ Park, Colo. ESTES
___ Sutcliffe, early Beatle STU
___-um (gnat) NOSEE