New York Times - Feb 2 1997

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Clues Answers
'Saw the air too much with your hand,' in Shakespeare's words OVERACT
'South Pacific' hero EMILE
'Stalag 17' star HOLDEN
'___ a Moon Out Tonight' (1961 hit) THERES
'___ Lap' (1983 film) PHAR
'___ Peach' (Allman Brothers album) EATA
'___ Three Lives' ILED
'___ Where My Money Goes' (early 1900's song) DATS
( ), informally PARENS
A cock does it CROWS
A fistful SEVERAL
Adult GROWN
Advanced course SEMINAR
Alas., once TERR
Alley challenge SPLIT
Ancient AGEOLD
Area near the crown KINGSTEMPLE
Army leader? ARNIE
Balcony section LOGE
Bambi's aunt DOE
Bambi's aunt ENA.
Beer holders: Abbr. BBLS
Blue Eagle initials NRA
Bomber initials USAF
Break RECESS
Bring (out) TROT
Bygone kings SHAHS
Captain, e.g. RANK
Changes back STETS
Chest material CEDAR
Christmas ___ SEALS
Chuck TOSS
Chuck alternative CHAS
City WNW of Mascara ORAN
Closet contents LINEN
Cobbler's stock HEELS
Cod piece? FIN
Colorful clumps of grass AUBURNTUFTS
Columbia athlete LION
Concern FIRM
Conviction BELIEF
Costa, anatomically RIB
Crime statistics ARRESTS.
Devil-may-care RASH
Distillation product ESTER
Done in SLAIN
Drink for Drac BLOOD
East end ERN
Emma Lazarus LIBERTYBARD
Engr.'s specialty ELEC
Fends off AVERTS
Fill the hold LADE
Flower clusters RACEMES
Flying jib, e.g. SAIL
Franklin's flier KITE
G.P. grp. AMA
General Grant's horseshoer UNIONSMITH
Get fresh with SASS
Get ready to leave PACKUP.
Go cold turkey QUIT
Go furtively SIDLE
God of wine BACCHUS
Got lucky at poker DREWQUEENS
Grabbed SNARED
Guy Lombardo hit of 1937 or Jimmy Dorsey hit of 1957 SORARE
Hail GREET
Highest honor ACE
Home of England's Opera North LEEDS.
Hot issue? LAVA
Clues Answers
Hung out to dry AIRED
In any way EVER
Indisposed AVERSE
Inherent character NATURE
Jacuzzi user BATHER
Jelly ingredient PECTIN
Kind of particle LAMBDA
Kingdom of Minos CRETE
Lies limply SPRAWLS.
Like some excursions LUNAR
Like the flu VIRAL
Like Uranus vis-a-vis Jupiter REMOTER
Locate SITE
Look everywhere in SCOUR.
Loose-limbed LITHE
Maintain AVER
Make confetti SHRED
Make it big ARRIVE
Marker STELE
Marsh plant SEDGE
Mexican state or a product that originated there TABASCO
Missouri, e.g. RIVER
More than miffed IRATE
Muscle-building unit REP
Not be perfect ERR
Nurse FEED
Off-peak calls? YODELS
One who teases a nobleman DUKERIDER
Overflows ABOUNDS
Overshadow UPSTAGE
Philippine island CEBU
Platitudes TRUISMS
Popular porters SHERPAS
Posterior HIND
Prepare for action GIRD
Province in Italy's Northern League VARESE
Pull strings? UNDO
Put up CAN
Renowned Manhattan eatery ELAINES
School of painting ASHCAN
Secretary, at times FILER
Silo occupant ICBM
Sing-a-long syllable TRA
Single UNWED
Slander TRADUCE
Spanish poet Federico Garcia ___ LORCA
Specialist in a duck blind DRAKEHUNTER
Speller's phrase ASIN
Squeaking UNOILED
Street of mystery DELLA
Stretched one's neck CRANED
Suggest CONNOTE
The scarlet letter REDA
The thing is? ITS
They're dispensed in litres PETROLS
To be, to Benita SER
Toil wearily SLOG
Toiling ATIT
Trimming tool EDGER
Trojan princess of a Mozart opera ILIA
Unbound LOOSE
Unit of capacitance FARAD
Unpaid debt ARREAR
Walt Disney's middle name ELIAS
Welty's 'One Writer's Beginnings,' e.g. MEMOIR
Western airline name ALOHA
Whiz MAVEN
Whole-grain food BROWNRICE
Word in a promise SOON