New York Times - Nov 20 2005

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'A Passage to India' character ADELA
'Do the Right Thing' pizzeria SALS
'Hard ___!' (nautical order) ALEE
'In excelsis ___' DEO
'Smooth Operator' singer SADE
'Sorry, Charlie!' NODICE
1960's TV actress Stevens INGER
2000 Olympics host AUSSIE
A doofus might do it NONO
Acquisitive sort AMASSER
Act the ogler LEER
Agog POPEYED
Airhead DUMBBELL
Armory grp. REGT
Ate HAD
Author Sinclair UPTON
Avoids SIDESTEPS
Bad looks SNEERS
Baker, of a sort PIEMAN
Bandleader's start ANDA
Barracks locale BASE
Basso Pinza EZIO
Best of the best TOPTEN
Best-selling Hasbro toy introduced in the 1960's GIJOE
Bulb unit LUMEN
Burn cause ACID
Caen's river ORNE
CD burners PCS
Cement holder HOD
Clipped TERSE
Compos mentis SANE
Corked vessel JUG
Country singer Joe ELY
Country star's sitcom REBA
Crows BRAGS
Decorated, as leather TOOLED
Dentist's target TARTAR
Devices in electrical networks RELAYS
Digestive juice PEPSIN
Drift off DROWSE
Driver's lic. info HGT
Duel personalities? SECONDS
Eight-time Norris Trophy winner ORR
End in the Bible? ETH
Exclusive of anything else MERE
Existence, to Claudius ESSE
Fair and square ONTHELEVEL
Farm calls BAAS
Fashionable bag PRADA
Feeling SENSATE
First thing Iowa State cheerleaders ask for? ANI
Forlorn one PINER
Former German president Johannes ___ RAU
G.P.S. heading SSE
Galoot-like OAFISH
Gauzy material SCRIM
Genetic inits. RNA
Gray head? LEE
Hardly one of hoi polloi SNOOT
Having a goatee and beret, say ARTY
Heavy LEADEN
Henhouse sounds PEEPS
Hotelier Helmsley LEONA
Hwy. sign no. RTE
Hypo meas. CCS
Illogically, not the eighth mo. OCT
Imprison EMBAR
In the center of AMIDST
Incarnation EMBODIMENT
Inner tubes, topologically TORI
It makes clothes close SNAP
It might make the torso seem moreso BRA
It used to be pitched WOO
Ka ___ (Hawaii's South Cape) LAE
Kids JESTS
Kind of ray GAMMA
Kitties PUSSES
Landlocked land LAOS
Large fish, maybe, to a fisher KEEPER
Laser surgery targets RETINAE
Latin hymn 'Dies ___' IRAE
Left WENT
Lights (into) RIPS
Clues Answers
Like George Washington's church EPISCOPAL
Like many Ping-Pong balls, nowadays ORANGE
List abbr. ETAL
Lodge letters BPOE
Made, as a case PLEADED
Mail-sorting ctr. GPO
Mascot #1 SKIDMOREBANANAPEEL
Mascot #2 NAVYBLUEBLAZER
Mascot #3 COLGATETOOTHPASTE
Mascot #4 HUNTERGATHERER
Mascot #5 NOTREDAMEHUNCHBACK
Mascot #6 STJOHNSWORT
Mascot #7 BROWNBAGGER
Match in chips SEE
Metered praise ODE
Mideast org. PLO
Milker's handhold TEAT
Monstrous OGRISH
Mooring spots INLETS
Most up-to-date NEWEST
Mr. Hulot's player, in films TATI
Muscat resident OMANI
Name-callers, maybe LIBELERS
Narc's haul LSD
Neat as a pin IMMACULATE
No fan of Pizarro, certainly INCA
Nut LOON
Of last month ULTIMO
Off-land lander SEAPLANE
One of 12 tiles in mah-jongg DRAGON
One rolling with the Stones? ROADIE
One taking advantage of a long arm REACHER
Petach Tikva resident ISRAELI
Popular player since 2001 IPOD
Prefix with mensch UBER
Prevents DETERS
Prompt CUE
Prospector's find LODE
Q.E.D. part ERAT
QB's gains YDS
Rear END
Rear AFT
Rising ASCENDANT
Rising times DAWNS
River through Siberia LENA
Rod GAT
Rodeo ring? LARIAT
Roulette bet EVEN
Rush! ASAP
Scrap ORT
Scriptural interpretation CABALA
Seafood selection SOLE
Sharply focused KEEN
Shell carrier TERRAPIN
Shoe sales clerk's urging TRYTHESE
Short order in a diner BLT
Show appreciation CLAP
Skilled ADEPT
Springs SPAS
Squealer's spot STY
Stalagmite makeup CALCITE
Startled interjection EEK
Store sign OPEN
Street coat? BLACKTOP
Suffix with pay OLA
Sweater style RAGLAN
Swindlers BILKERS
Symbols used in Navajo and Mayan art SWASTIKAS
Tagged LABELED
Take it easy LOLL
Taken back, as territory REWON
Theo. Roosevelt Natl. Park site NDAK
Things best let be, proverbially BYGONES
Tries to trap something WEAVESAWEB
Uffizi display ARTE
Union general MEADE
Urgent transmission, for short APB
Voice vote YEA
Volleyball putaways SPIKES
Win by ___ ANOSE
Wine region RHONE
Writer Carroll LEWIS
___ honorable (formal apology) AMENDE