New York Times - Mar 30 1998

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Clues Answers
'Take it easy' RELAX
'Thy Neighbor's Wife' author TALESE
'Yellow-bellied coward' and others SLURS
'___ M for Murder' DIAL
60's-70's coifs AFROS
Acorn, eventually OAK
Act like aloe SOOTHE
Actress Barbara ___ Geddes BEL
Animal that sleeps upside-down SLOTH
Austen novel made into a 1996 movie EMMA
Award for Oprah EMMY
Banned apple spray ALAR
Bowler's button RESET
Brainstorm IDEA
Chase Manhattan, e.g. BANK
Cosmetician Lauder ESTEE
Count (on) RELY
Des Moines native IOWAN
Dictation takers STENOS
Dueler's sword SABER
Egg protector CRATE
Ems followers ENS
Esoteric ARCANE
Ewes' calls BAAS
Fast-paced card game CRAZYEIGHTS
Fruity pastry TART
Fulton's power STEAM
German auto AUDI
German industrial city ESSEN
Gymnasts' quests PERFECTTENS
Have the throne RULE
Having three unequal sides, as a triangle SCALENE
Head-shakers' syllables TSKS
In ___ (befuddled) ADAZE
Kleptomaniac STEALER.
Larry King has a few EXES
Like a seven-footer TALL
Like some piano keys EBONY
Clues Answers
Literature Nobelist Hermann HESSE
Lose color FADE
Major no-no TABOO
Man of La Mancha SENOR
More than a tee-hee HAHA
Mortarboard part TASSEL
Most-wanted group of attendees ALIST
Mythical giant TITAN
N.Y.C. subway manager MTA
Newspaper no-no LIBEL
Nonsensical INANE
Paris bisector SEINE
Part of a milit. address APO
Pitcher Hershiser OREL
Pres. Lincoln ABE
Primitive weapon SPEAR
Proofs of age, for short IDS
Quick haircut TRIM
Ragú competitor PREGO
Read, as enemy messages DECODE
Renter's paper LEASE
Roman philosopher CATO
Rural dance POLKA
Sale scenes MOBS
Seedy loaf RYE
Seer ORACLE
Should, with 'to' OUGHT
Showy scarf BOA
SOS lights FLARES
Stand up ARISE
Sugar amt. TSP
Superdeluxe POSH
They give people big heads EGOS
Use an ax HEW
Wear one's best DRESSTOTHENINES
West Point drillee CADET
What to watch the BBC on TELLY
With speed APACE