New York Times - Dec 28 2003

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Clues Answers
'Ain't ___ Sweet' SHE
'Eso ___' (Paul Anka hit) BESO
'Kapow!' BAM
'L'Arlésienne' composer BIZET
'M*A*S*H' co-star SWIT
'Rush!' ASAP
'Same here' ASAMI
'Uncle!' IGIVE
'Undo' mark STET
'You betcha!' ANDHOW
'___ luck?' ANY
Abbr. after a comma ETC
Acknowledges in passing NODSAT
Actress Thurman UMA
Adoring trio MAGI
Alternatives to Movados OMEGAS
Ambiguous headline about a police action COPSHELPDOGBITEVICTIM
Ambiguous headline about agriculture legislation FARMERBILLDIESINHOUSE
Ambiguous headline about construction delay REDTAPEHOLDSUPBRIDGE
Ambiguous headline about Mideast dealings IRAQIHEADSOUGHTARMS
Ambiguous headline about school cooking lessons KIDSMAKETASTYSNACKS
Ambiguous headline about the Bush cabinet ONEILLISFEDSECRETARY
Apollo vehicle LEM
Approx. 252 calories BTU
Athletic wear company founded in Australia SPEEDO
Bailiwick AREA
Basketball position: Abbr. CTR
Big fat mouth YAP
Border ABUT
Buds MACS
Cambodian currency RIEL
Capital on the Dnieper KIEV
Casual attire TEE
Certain camera, for short SLR
Christian name DIOR
Church alcove APSE
Classic kids' game ISPY
Classic Welles role KANE
Clear in the winter DEICE
Cliff feature CRAG
Collected dust SAT
Company whose name is also its stock symbol IBM
Consort to Queen Victoria ALBERT
Couture monogram YSL
CPR administrators EMTS
Crate label FRAGILE
Crime solver's aid SKETCH
Customs MORES
Dance pioneer Duncan ISADORA
Deep-sixed DITCHED
Defeat badly STOMP
Disney canine TRAMP
Do a do STYLE
Drew in books? SLEUTH
Drug unit KILO
Dutch painter Frans HALS
Express approval, in a way CLAP
Faculty levels, for short IQS
Familiar complimentary close ASEVER
Faucet attachment AERATOR
First mate? EVE
Flat person RENTER
Fleet RAPID
Flummox ADDLE
Free from government control, slangily DEREG
Fresh scent PINE
Genteel affair TEA
Grier of 'Foxy Brown' PAM
Had figured out WASONTO
Helps AVAILS
Clues Answers
Hoosegow CAN
Illicit drugs, briefly PCPS
Inkless pen STY
Island chain? LEI
It's all ears MAIZE
Its founder was born in Mecca ISLAM
Jazz pianist Hines EARL
Jiffy SEC
Jude, for one APOSTLE
Justice Dept. division ATF
Lady of Arthurian romance ELAINE
Latin-American rattler MARACA
Lead PRECEDE
Leg-puller KIDDER
Like a shoppe OLDE
Like some parties STAG
Little sprinters HARES
Look that could kill, say ICYSTARE
Magician's opening ABRA
Many a perfume SPRAY
Mentalist Geller URI
Meteorologist's line ISOBAR
Music bar MEASURE
No longer fast EAT
Nursery rhyme diner SPRAT
Observed the Sabbath RESTED
Obstruct DAMUP
Once before? ERST
Parrot APE
Passable SOSO
Person behind a pram PUSHER
Place for hops VAT
Place to connect a mike AMP
Platitudes BROMIDES
Poet Khayyám OMAR
Pooh pal ROO
Popular painkiller ALEVE
Pressing need? STEAM
Quick approval: Abbr. INIT
Racket DIN
Release EMIT
Reserve SHYNESS
Retired, as a prof. EMER
Rise GOUP
Rooting sections? SCALPS
Some mattresses SERTAS
Some partners: Abbr. ATTYS
Sound's partner SAFE
Specters WRAITHS
Store frequented by mechanics NAPA
Straight man? HETERO
Suffix with chick ADEE
Summer quaff ADE
Superfund org. EPA
Swingers' grp. PGA
They might save your breath CERTS
To be overseas ETRE
Toiling away ATIT
Trash receptacles ASHCANS
Two-faced FALSE
UNDERLINE STRESS
Vein specialists MINERS
W.W. II code machines ENIGMAS
Wall Street workers TRADERS
Washington and others DINAHS
Wine unit CASE
___ Friday SGT
___ nut BETEL
___ pad SOS
___-mo SLO