New York Times - Mar 23 1997

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Clues Answers
'An American in Paris' actress NINAFOCH
'Cleopatra' extra FANNER
'It was ___ joke!' ALLA
'Jour de Fete' star TATI
'No kidding!' GOSH
'Norma ___' RAE
'Oh boy!' GOODY
'___ beam up' ('Star Trek' order) TWOTO
1957 Nabokov novel PNIN
1978 Irving character GARP
1984-88 Olympic figure-skating gold medalist WITT
30's crooner Columbo RUSS
A season: Abbr. SPR.
Actress Russo RENE
Aid for Santa LIST
Alaska's first governor EGAN
Alphabet quartet LMNO
Amphora handle ANSA
Bergman in 'Casablanca' LUND
Big dogs, for short LABS
Bills NEBS
Burlesque activity APING
Case INSTANCE
Catacomb recess LOCULUS
Certain intersection VEE
Cold pack? ICECAP.
Collar NAB
College building DORM
Comes down pretty hard SLEETS
Commences, as an adventure ENTERSON
Containing the 58th element CERIC
Cricket wicket END
Cyst WEN
Dance CUTARUG
Dig GIBE
Disagreeable sorts, in slang PILLS
Dissolve EVANESCE
Draws ELICITS
Ed.'s request SASE
Edit, possibly REWORK
Epithet of Athena ALEA
Eur. airline SAS
Fastballer known as 'The Express' RYAN
Fearless one FOSDICK
Gaines rival PURINA
Garden section: Var. ROSERY
Glides SASHAYS
Goose egg NIL
Grandson of Adam ENOS
Graphic beginning IDEO
Haughty refusal NEVER
He sank with the Scharnhorst SPEE
Hero robot of the comics ELECTRO
Hero sandwich POORBOY
Holdup SNAG
Horus's father OSIRIS
How a siren walks SULTRILY
Hungarian revolutionary Kun BELA
Insulin, e.g. HORMONE
Jimmy Carter alma mater: Abbr. USNA
Joule fragments ERGS
Kin of 'Sacre bleu!' MONDIEU
Kind of fence CYCLONE
Kind of summit ARAB
Language authority Mario PEI
Clues Answers
Linguist Chomsky NOAM
Lion's prey GNU
Louis I, to Charlemagne FILS
M.P.'s prize AWOL
Math amts. LCMS
Medieval kingdom in western Europe LORRAINE
Mideast inn SERAI
Mississippi feeder OHIO
Morgan le Fay's brother ARTHUR
Obsession, e.g. COLOGNE
Old alms box ARCA
Old-time Yankee great Chase HAL
One of a storied threesome BEAR
Ones providing arms ESCORTS
Open, in a way UNZIPPED
Park item TRAILER
Part of morning calisthenics BENDS
Phoenician, e.g. SEMITE
Picture, commercially FOTO
Pitchers, in a way ADMEN
Pop 50's-60's TV star? IMOGENECOCACOLA
Pop Anthony Burgess novel? ACLOCKWORKORANGECRUSH
Pop dance team, informally? FREDANDGINGERALE
Pop Peace Nobelist? ELIHUROOTBEER
Pop product at a barbershop? HAIRCREAMSODA
Pop setting for a Mussorgsky work? BALDMOUNTAINDEW
Pop title role in a 1993 film? GILBERTGRAPENEHI
Pop western of 1960? THEMAGNIFICENTSEVENUP
Prefix with drama MELO
Products of gamma rays IONS
Protest in no uncertain terms YELL
Rank below marquis EARL
Scale notes RES
Scourge of serge LINT
Shallow bay on England's east coast THEWASH
Sheepherders of the Southwest HOPIS
Slangy refusal NAH
Solicit ASKFOR
Soph. and others YRS
Spiral ___ NEBULA
St. Theresa's birthplace AVILA
Sternward ABAFT
Surveyor's chart PLAT
Swallows ACCEPTS
Swedish money KRONOR
Tavern need: Abbr. LIC
Thatching palm NIPA
The Beatles' 'I'm ___' ALOSER
Thin, overseas MEAGRE.
Tiny payment CENT
Tormented RODE
Trifling NOMINAL
Truman's birthplace LAMAR
Unclear FOGGY
Vibrating effect TREMOLO
Waves at, perhaps GREETS
Weed with purplish flowers: Var. TEAZLE
Where charges may show up VISABILL
Where scissors are made? MAT
Without ___ of hope ARAY
___ de pont (bridgehead) TETE
___ Orchestra (popular 30's band) BASIE
___ prius (trial court) NISI
___ Rogers St. Johns ADELA
___-tresses (orchid) LADYS