New York Times - Mar 2 1997

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'Ben-Hur' author WALLACE
'Diary of a Genius' author DALI
'Do the Right Thing' extras RIOTERS
'It's ___...World' AMAD
'Women and Love' author HITE
'___ Breckinridge' MYRA
1970 Chicago hit TWENTYFIVEORSIXTOFOUR
1985 N.L. Cy Young Award winner GOODEN
A gift in O. Henry's 'The Gift of the Magi' FOB
Aguirre portrayer KINSKI
Alert TIPOFF
Ally of the U.S. ENG
American and Swiss CHEESES
Antonio's role in 'Evita' CHE
Approached NEARED
B flat's equivalent ASHARP
Be ecstatic FEELLIKEAMILLIONBUCKS
Begin, e.g. ISRAELI
Big cheese EXEC
Bow in the theater CLARA
Bring upon oneself INCUR
Brunch beverage MIMOSA
Brush carelessly DAUB
Cases SHEATHS
Celebrated EMINENT
Chap GENT
Charpentier opera or its heroine LOUISE
Chemical suffix ENE
Chomolungma's more familiar name EVEREST
City with a Latin quarter TAMPA
Coarse files RASPS
Composed SERENE
Continuous sound HUM
Cruise in style YACHT
Dauphin's father ROI
Division word INTO
Downwind ALEE
Drain trap shape, at times ESS
Easily maneuverable military forces ARMADAS
Even though ALBEIT
Exhaust USEUP
Fair play CRICKET
Finder's cry EUREKA
First published work by 39-Down NATURE
Follow SUCCEED
Former ring king ALI
Fraternity letter CHI
Full house indicator SRO
Galore APLENTY
Garish LOUD
Get some air BREATHE
Go to bat for DEFEND
Good ___ boy OLE
Hall-of-Famer Hubbard CAL
Hammered BEATEN
Hosp. areas ERS
Hounds BASSETS
Humphrey's 'High Sierra' co-star IDA
It's often in hot water TEABAG
It's quarried in Vermont SLATE
Jamie Lee's mom JANET
King of the 18th dynasty TUT
King's title: Abbr. REV
Land of the Chosen people KOREA
Less stirred LUMPIER
Like some floors TILED
Like some wages HOURLY
Malefactor FELON
Melville foretopman BUDD
Midler's '___ Las Vegas' DIVA
Most pitch-black INKIEST
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Musical measures BARS
Neighbor of Minn. ONT
Nice view MER
Not chronic ACUTE
Objective END
Okla. football rival NEB
Old Alka-Seltzer mascot SPEEDY
Old-style interjection FIE
Optimal option BESTBET
Paris-to-Marseilles dir. SSE
Parodied, with 'up' SENT
Partly coincide OVERLAP
Performs, for King James DOTH
Petered out RANDRY
Place STEAD
Poet's prerogative LICENSE
Poetic contraction NEER
Pool contents? GENES
Presumptive person? HEIR
Principle of philosophy TAO
Provincetown catch COD
Ragamuffins URCHINS
Raised REARED
Raised BRED
Reception helper AERIAL
Recesses COVES
Representative location HOUSE
Reunion group KIN
Riding accessories CROPS
Rockefeller Center muralist SERT
Rocker Joan JETT
Rollers? TIRES
Round trip of sorts HOMERUN
Sandinista foe CONTRA
Sashayed AMBLED
Sault ___ Marie STE
See 62-Across ANDS
Show up ECLIPSE
Singer Janis IAN
Slimmer swimmer EEL
Slippery ___ ELM
Slots ONEARMEDBANDITS.
Some gold diggers FORTYNINERS
Some Ivy Leaguers ELIS
Song from the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' album WHENIMSIXTYFOUR
Spanish diminutive suffix ITA
Spot SEE
Squeal RAT
Stout relative ALE
Strains, in a way SIFTS
Supplies KIT
Surrounded by AMID
Tennis shot LOB
The Sage of Concord EMERSON
Tiny bit SPECK
Treated to supper DINED
Unmemorized words ADLIB
Urban modernization RENEWAL
Use acid ETCH
Very alluring FOXY
Vocalist John ELTON
Waste maker HASTE
Watch word TICK
Water barrier DIKE
Way down? MANHOLE
Where Sir Arthur Evans excavated CRETE
Whisky drink SOUR
Winslow Homer's home MAINE
With 86-Down, partner of buts IFS
Yard chore RAKING
___ incognita TERRA