New York Times - Jun 1 1998

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Clues Answers
'Ars Poetica' poet HORACE
'Charlotte's Web' author EBWHITE
'Foul!' caller REFEREE
'Same here' DITTO
'The Old Wives' Tale' dramatist George PEELE
'___ before beauty' AGE
'___ girl watcher' (1968 song lyric) IMA
'___ tu' (Verdi aria) ERI
Actor Morales ESAI
Alan Ladd western SHANE
Anti-attacker spray MACE
Barely lit DIM
Beavers' project DAM
Blind as ___ ABAT
Bloodshot RED
Boast BRAG
Brunch drink MIMOSA
Castle protector MOAT
Cause for a Band-Aid CUT
Cease-fire TRUCE
Coffee alternative TEA
Creates quickly WHIPSUP
Defeated BESTED
Divs. of months WKS
Edible pigeon SQUAB
Former Bangkok-based grp. SEATO
Goes astray ERRS
Graceful aquatic bird TERN
Harvest REAP
He was asked 'Wherefore art thou?' ROMEO
House V.I.P. Dick ARMEY
Ill will RANCOR
Important element of rap lyrics RHYME
Jacques of French cinema TATI
Lacking interest JEJUNE
Like cooked oatmeal MUSHY
Long, long time EON
Mailed SENT
Minute nutritional components, to a Spanish count? TRESELEMENTS
Clues Answers
Narrow inlet RIA
Not the main route: Abbr. ALT
Open, as a gate UNBAR
P.S.A.T. takers JRS
Perjurers LIARS
Planet beyond Saturn URANUS
Plant again RESOW
Prime draft classification ONEA
Question of understanding, to a Spanish count? UNOWHATIMEAN
Rapid-fire QUICK
Recede EBB
Relative of the salmon SMELT
Rendezvous TRYST
Rundown SEEDY
Serve that zings ACE
Shade provider ELM
Shah's land, once IRAN
Sipper's aid STRAW
Slight contamination TAINT
Stags and does DEER
Supply-and-demand subj. ECON
Swashbuckling Flynn ERROL
Sweet roll BRIOCHE
Swiftness HASTE.
Swirl TURN
Tempt SEDUCE
Tempt LURE
Total SUM
Town east of Santa Barbara OJAI
Trucker's truck RIG
Undemanding, as a job CUSHY
What a doctor prescribes, to a Spanish count? DOSOFMEDICINE.
What musical instruments should be INTUNE
Where baby sleeps CRIB
Word repeated in 'takes ___ to know ___' ONE
World Series mo. OCT
Yens URGES
___ Lanka SRI
___ tai MAI