New York Times - Aug 20 2006

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
'Dido and Aeneas,' for an early English example OPERA
'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' invaders? PODDEDPLANTS
'Miss Pym Disposes' author, 1946 TEY
'So long' ADIOS
'There's ___ for that' ANAME
A little flat? STUDIO
Actor William of 'My Three Sons' DEMAREST
Actress Long and others NIAS
Affectionate aquarium denizen? CUDDLEFISH
Agitated, after 'in' APET
At a slow pace TARDILY
Athletic supporter FAN
Author of 'Chaim Lederer's Return' ASCH
Awaken ROUSE
Beat TEMPO
Beat TIRED
Beef cut RUMP
Bit of skating practice AXEL
Blockhead CLUNK
Bring down ABASE
Calm APPEASE
Capital whose Parliament house is called Fale Fono APIA
Category in baseball's Triple Crown: Abbr. RBI
Caught on to GOT
Certain Prot. EPIS
Challenger's quest TITLE
Changes a mansard REROOFS
Choice words ANDOR
Concert hall ODEON
Cot on wheels GURNEY
Cousin of a herring MENHADEN
Cremona product, for short STRAD
Cubans' locations HUMIDORS
Dark suit SPADES
Deceiving PHONY
Desperado BADMAN
Discharged SPEWED
Does one's part AIDS
Ear flap? HUSK
End of many a race SPURT
Evening thing PLANE
Faithful servant in 'As You Like It' ADAM
Feather in one's cap PLUME
First or economy CLASS
Fit TONED
Force in the Trojan War ARMADA
French department ORNE
Get out of EVADE
Glyceride, e.g. ESTER
Grade enhancer PLUS
Grime fighter CLEANER
Had DUPED
Hatched CREATED
Hazzard County lawman ENOS
Home, informally NEST
Hub of a wheel NAVE
Hypnotist's directive OBEY
Invited BADE
Iran's Ayatollah ___ Khamenei ALI
It fades in the fall TAN
It might raise a stink HAMPER
It's administered in H.S. PSAT
It's long in fashion MAXI
Kind of acting METHOD
King SIRE
Less taxing EASIER
Lesser cut, usually SIDEB
Lettuce in the spring? BUDDINGHEADS
Like a defendant in court SUED
Like Captain Kidd HANGED
Clues Answers
Listing ATILT
Loot SPOILS
Low-___ RES
Lyricist's need TUNE
Made pants? PUFFED
Marigraph activator TIDE
Memory, sometimes BLUR
Modern-day rhymer RAPPER
Monty Python member PALIN
Near AROUND
Newscast segment UPDATE
Newspaper piece OPED
Not done as well? RARER
Not native ALIEN
Number in C.B. lingo NINER
Oenone's husband, in myth PARIS
Old Nick SATAN
Olympic skater Cohen SASHA
One offering compensation, maybe ATONER
Opposed to getting more angry? ANTIMADDER
Others, in the Forum ALII
Panama, e.g. HAT
Part of many a Civil War statue STEED
Pastelería offering FLAN
Patriots' grp. AFC
Peach or beech TREE
Play up STRESS
Pluvial RAINY
Pointer's reference THAT
Police car feature RADAR
Pop group with a hit Broadway musical ABBA
Popular women's fragrance ESTEE
Pour ___ ITON
Preceder of Peter in a phonetic alphabet OBOE
Primo AONE
Purplish GRAPE
Puts on ADDS
Ranchero wraps SERAPES
Rhine feeder AARE
Rub the wrong way GRATE
Sci-fi figures ANDROIDS
Sine or cosine RATIO
Smack BUSS
Sowing machine SEEDER
Start of the Order of the Garter's motto HONI
Stink MALODOR
Stretch AREA
Stuff on tape ADHESIVE
Sty sound SNORT
Sub STANDIN
Suffix with novel ETTE
Switch attachment? EROO
Tainted tapioca? OFFPUDDING
Take in too little UNDEREAT
The best time to elope? LADDERDAY
They're all that matter ATOMS
Three-time Masters winner SNEAD
Tiny amount TAD
Tour de France cyclist Floyd LANDIS
Trombonist Winding KAI
TV's Michaels LORNE
Two-time L.P.G.A. Championship winner Laura DAVIES
Union members STATES
Very scared insect? SHUDDERBUG
Wannabe surfers HODADS
Way up TBAR
Went back and forth PACED
Young warmonger? KIDDYHAWK
___-Asiatic AFRO
___-length ANKLE