New York Times - Jun 26 1998

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'Ishtar' director ELAINEMAY
'The Good Apprentice' novelist IRISMURDOCH
Airline mogul Carl ICAHN
Amazon ___ ANTS
Archaic form of 'to be' WERT
Austronesian language MAORI
Author Silverstein SHEL
Balancing pro CPA
Barracks bosses SARGES
British colony until 1970 FIJI
Busted TAME
Car ad abbr. MPG
Cell sojourner CON
Certain putdowns STARES
Cesspool STY
College conferrals ACADEMICDEGREES
Comics magician, with 'the' WIZARDOFID.
Contents of many California orchards PLUMTREES
D.C. United player, e.g. SOCCERPRO
Darling abroad CHERI
Datebook abbr. THU
Dummy firearm, as on a fort QUAKERGUN
English novelist with the pen name Ouida LOUISEDELARAMEE
Feel GROPE
Feverish fits AGUES
Foot: Prefix PEDI
George Harrison popularized it SITAR
Having no mentor SELFGUIDED
Hi-___ FIS
Hid, with 'up' HOLED
Highlander GAEL
Indian princess MAHARANEE
Indonesia's ___ Islands ARU
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Jazz guitarist Farlow TAL
Jewish festival PURIM
Liberace, for one HAM
Life jacket, e.g. VEST
Like a gossip column DISHY
Low beams DIMMERS
Math ratios PIS
Musical mark SLUR
Neanderthal CAVEMAN
Piled upholstery fabrics with uncut loops FRISES
Pointer's direction YON
Pop out of a plane EJECT
Pope who persuaded Attila the Hun not to attack Rome STLEO
Promulgated SOWED
Ray of Hollywood ALDO
Refrains from childish behavior ACTSONESAGE
Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior ICKES
Sidetracks SHUNTS
Sine qua non NEED
Sound-system part AMP
Star seeker TALENTSCOUT
String bean's opposite FATSO
Stumble ERR
Switch words ONOFF
Takes home NETS
Tavern fixtures? WINOS
The Shirelles' 'Mama ___' SAID
Then ATTHETIME
Utah Lake city OREM
Warplane's cargo AERIALMINES
Way out? ESCAPEMECHANISM
Where 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' first appeared ESQUIREMAGAZINE
Wife, once, with 'the' MRS