New York Times - Dec 17 1999

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Clues Answers
'Be prepared' SCOUTMOTTO
'Buenos ___' DIAS
'Fred Basset' cartoonist Graham ALEX
'Hey!' PSST
1967 war site SINAI
21-Across biter ASP
An apple MCINTOSH
Arrives, as darkness SETSIN
Be in contact (with) LIAISE
Biologist Metchnikoff ELIE
Bit of raingear MAC
Bitten one, for short CLEO
Bony OSSEOUS
Bounder Down Under ROO
Building support IBAR
Champ's cry IWON
Chest muscle, for short PEC
Chuck wagon honcho COOK
Connections INS
Court figure in Washington SONIC
Decent fellows MENSCHEN
Decorator's concern COLORSCHEME
Director Howard Hawks's last film, 1970 RIOLOBO
Entertaining grp. USO
Evening for Yvette SOIR
Fails to DOESNT
Federal agents TMEN
Fickle INCONSTANT
Fool BOOBY
Four-star review RAVE
Freeze STOP
Fuse MELD
Gathered copiously RAKEDIN
Get from ___ (progress) ATOB
Greek deli purchase FETA
Half of a well-known comedy duo MEARA
Clues Answers
Has got to have NEEDS
Hydroxyl compound ENOL
Is overjoyed WALKSONAIR
Julia on screen RAUL
Kind of silence STONY
Krazy ___ KAT
Like flotsam and jetsam OCEANBORNE
Like half a season's games ATHOME
Like junior year NEXTTOLAST
Like old socks, maybe HOLEY
Like the Arctic UPNORTH
Man of the hour HERO
Met fans OPERABUFFS
Methuselah's father ENOCH
Miserere, for one PSALM
Mudder's day event RACE
Onetime outlawed org. IRA
Opposite of celebrate BEMOAN
Part of a rebel name ELEE
Profligate ROUE
Rousseau title character EMILE
She played Anita in 'West Side Story' RITAMORENO
Show with skits, for short SNL
Six-foot worker, maybe ANT
Some dietary intake FATS
Source of calling MINARET
Spy's disguise COVER
Tackle ATTEMPT
Take cargo from UNLADE
Take it easy COAST
Title girl in a song on the first Beatles album ANNA
Unconvincing LAME
Unwelcome boarder TRAINROBBER
View finders EYES
Washington post SENATESEAT
___ pretty sight NOTA