New York Times - Dec 19 2004

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Clues Answers
1953 film title hero SHANE
A as in Austria EIN
Abraham’s ___ (heaven) BOSOM
Ample, poetically ENOW
Ancient serfs HELOTS
Base coach’s urging SLIDE
Bern, Geneva and Zurich CANTONS
Big game fish TARPON
Big mouth, slangily YAP
Big name in bonding ELMER
Big name in computer software LOTUS
Broadcasting ONAIR
Came out of sleep, old-style AWAKED
Capital of East Flanders GHENT
Cassowary’s cousin RHEA
Cast off SHED
Catch ENSNARE
Catch but good NAIL
Chain component, perhaps DAISY
Classified WANTAD
Climb SHIN
Code cracker’s comment AHA
Colliery carriers TRAMS
Cool shade AQUA
Correct ending IVE
Counseling, e.g. HELP
Court call LET
Covering everything OVERALL
Davis of Hollywood GEENA
Diamond complement NINE
Diego Velázquez’s “Lady With ___” AFAN
Discharge EMIT
End of a New Year’s classic SYNE
End of the verse FINDAWAYTOBEATTHEWRAP
Fa followers SOLA
Festive GALA
Former rulers of Egypt BRITISH
Fringe, maybe TASSELS
Get lost in a brown study THINK
Giant LARGE
Go around BYPASS
Grp. associated with dens BSA
Gucci of fashion ALDO
Had something ATE
Hard-rock center ASA
Henri’s high HAUT
Herbert Marx, familiarly ZEPPO
Hoary OLD
Hon TOOTS
Hotfoot it SCOOT
Ice alternative: Var. SHERBERT
In the habit of USEDTO
Inter ___ ALIA
It may be in a torpedo SALAMI
Itsy-bitsy biter GNAT
Jitterbug variety LINDY
Kind of monitor HALL
Kindle AROUSE
Latin word on a monument ANNO
Life-or-death situation PERIL
Like farmland ARABLE
Livy’s “Lo!” ECCE
Longed ACHED
Loser’s cry RATS
Lots AHEAP
Maligned TRADUCED
Manufacturing center? CEE
Medieval charging need LANCE
Mild reproofs TUTS
Mimosa family member ACACIA
Clues Answers
Miss Quested of “A Passage to India” ADELA
Move like a puma PROWL
Not say directly HINT
Ocean danger ORCA
Ocean liner? COAST
One way off a ship PLANK
Org. that registers boxers AKC
Paradigm of happiness LARK
Pilgrimage to Mecca HADJ
Pitney’s partner BOWES
Places to get steamed SPAS
Pub potable STOUT
Pull CLOUT
Put on the same level EQUATE
Ready to be played, in a way DEALT
Recent delivery INFANT
Record notation CRIME
Record store section RAP
Resembling a chanterelle mushroom in flavor NUTLIKE
Right from the factory NEWEST
Roman encyclopedist PLINY
Runs out of steam DIES
Scooby Doo’s co-creator HANNA
Sentimental song BALLAD
Shakers, e.g. SECT
She sprang from Zeus’s head ATHENA
Sicilia, e.g. ISOLA
Skinless PEELED
Slick WET
Slight manifestation GLINT
Small goose BRANT
Some speech sounds NASALS
Something to drive off of TEE
Soul ESSENCE
Sound asleep? SNORE
Spray displayers VASES
Start of a Christmas classic TWAS
Start of a verse CUTTHEPAPERFOLDANDTIE
Subject of “The Motorcycle Diaries” CHE
Subordinate ruler SATRAP
Suspended porch piece GLIDER
Sweetie pie DEAREST
Take on HIRE
Take steps ACT
Take-home NET
Tennyson’s Arden ENOCH
The Green Hornet’s valet KATO
Timberjack’s tool ADZ
Together, in music ADUE
Token taker SLOT
Treeless plain SAVANNA
Verse, part 2 SENTENCEDTOTHISJOBAMI
Verse, part 3 WONDERCOULDALEGALCHAP
Vestibule ENTRY
W. Coast setting PST
Wachovia or Chase Manhattan, briefly USBANK
Walks heavily SLOGS
Was bright SHONE
West Jordan resident UTAHAN
Word of possibility MAY
Zero population NOONE
___ Cologne (skunk of old cartoons) ODIE
“Dred” novelist STOWE
“Epistulae morales” writer SENECA
“Ici on ___ français” PARLE
“Much ___!” OBLIGED
“Show Boat” heroine NOLA
“The Syncopated Clock” composer Anderson LEROY
“Tosca” villain SCARPIA
“___ figlia dell’amore” (Verdi quartet) BELLA