New York Times - Aug 10 2003

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Clues Answers
'Babes in Arms' star, 1939 ROONEY
'I Love Lucy' role ETHEL
'Let me sleep ___' ONIT
'The Gondoliers' girl TESSA
'The Simpsons' saxophonist LISA
'You just missed!' ALMOST
1970's-80's singer Ronnie MILSAP
Actress Stewart ALANA
Actress Suzanne SOMERS
Adjust ATTUNE
Afternoon treat, maybe NAP
Ancient strategy game played with stones MANCALA
Approvals YESSES
Artificial, after 'in' VITRO
As recently as ONLY
Attempt STAB
Author Dinesen ISAK
Author/illustrator Silverstein SHEL
Barre room bend PLIE
British isle's textiles? THECLOTHOFMAN
British poet laureate Tate NAHUM
Bust, of a sort RAID
C12H22O11 SUCROSE
Capital of Minorca MAHON
Cartage company, e.g. REMOVER
Chain hotel, for short HOJO
Charades gesture, e.g. HINT
Choral group TENORS
Cold, in Colombia FRIO
Colored ring AREOLA
Computer networking device ROUTER
Cooking method STEAM
Crude stone artifact EOLITH
Cut corners STINTED
Direct elsewhere REFER
Driving areas RANGES
Eccentric NUT
Eccentric SCREWY
Encircle GIRD
European carrier SAS
Evangelist's imperative REPENT
Even if, briefly THO
Expend USE
Factor in protein synthesis RNA
Financial wheeler-dealers, briefly ARBS
Fishy idea? THOUGHTOFSCHOOL
Fleet, Wall, etc.: Abbr. STS
Flute competition, e.g.? WAROFTHEWINDS
Follower of lop or dog EARED
Food, plates, silverware, etc.? CONTENTSOFTABLE
Food-swapping at a rooming house? TRADEOFBOARD
Furrow maker HOE
Grand time ERA
Hardly a mark to be proud of DEE
Hauls LUGS
Having two equal lobes BIFID
Hoarse RASPING
Hollywood display GLAMOR
Immediately STAT
Immune system lymphocytes TCELLS
Insert ADD
It flies through barrels AMMO
Jazz singer Anita ODAY
L.B.J.'s veep HHH
Letter after sierra, in radio lingo TANGO
Like Cheerios OATY
Like many a parting TEARY
Like the music in 'Turkey in the Straw' ANIMATO
Line before a reception IDO
Locale of U.N. peacekeeping forces, 1964 CYPRUS
Clues Answers
Made, as money MINTED
Milldam WEIR
Mocking behavior APERY
Modem speed measure BAUD
Morales in movies ESAI
Moving targets? PREY
Muppet who's tickled ELMO
New kitties? ANTES
Ogres FIENDS
One of the friends on 'Friends' ROSS
One who uses words in ways opposite of their literal meaning IRONIST
Opposite of paleo- NEO
Ordered group of numbers in math NTUPLE
Part of a black suit SPADE
Pencil-sharpening problem? NORETURNOFPOINT
Popular modern exercise system PILATES
Power overload result OUTAGE
Pro ___ BONO
Proper name in Masses JESU
Psalms interjection SELAH
Puppet ending EER
Renaissance artist Guido ___ RENI
Resentful SORE
Scottish refusal NAE
Scriptures reading LESSON
Sheep's 'Sheesh!' BAA
Short SHY
Show's partner TELL
Silas of the Continental Congress DEANE
Slip-on shoe LOAFER
Smooth transition SEGUE
Sob syllable HOO
Soft DOWNY
Some white meat VEAL
Songs for one SOLI
Southpaw's side LEFT
Spiraling part THREAD
St. Louis sked abbr. CST
Sticks in pits BATONS
Stir RILE
Suffer ___ worse than death AFATE
Supply for a cappuccino machine LATTE
Surfeit SATIATE
Tach readings, for short RPMS
Take in the mail READ
Take, as an airline FLYON
They may be seen with snowballs MITTENS
Tiny plant part ROOTLET
To a small degree ATRIFLE
Twix candy maker MARS
Undergarment PANTY
Unstop, poetically OPE
Unwelcome word from a surgeon OOPS
Vichyssoise ingredient POTATO
Viper ADDER
Virile one HEMAN
Walking like a peacock ASTRUT
Water whirl EDDY
Wet MOISTEN
What a brass band has? PLENTYOFHORN
What avid auctioneers have? LOVEOFLOTS
When the prisoners will escape? DAYOFBREAK
Whooper, e.g. SWAN
Wide-mouthed comic Martha RAYE
Wife in 'Finnegans Wake' ANNA
Winter Olympics site after St. Moritz OSLO
Wool source ANGORA
Word with big or blue CHEESE
___ fever (annual February/March phenomenon) OSCAR
___-Town (Midwest hub) CHI