New York Times - Dec 19 1999

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Clues Answers
'A one ___ two...' ANDA
'Coronation of the Virgin' painter BELLINI
'How ___ the little busy bee...' DOTH
'Left!' HAW
'Mysterious' locale ORIENT
'Out, dagnabbit!' GIT
'Passion According to St. John' composer BACH
'Wheel of Fortune' choice SPIN
'___ she blows!' THAR
Actor Reeves KEANU
Actual FORREAL
Actual TRUE
Addie's husband in 'As I Lay Dying' ANSE
Ancient market AGORA
Architect Saarinen EERO
Aware of, slangily WISETO
Ballade conclusion ENVOI
Baseball stats RBIS
Batiking need DYE
Before, once ERE
Birdbrain NITWIT
Blackbird ANI
Blood's partner GORE
Bows before YIELDSTO
Buck's love DOE
Burma's first P.M. UNU
Chili accompanier CARNE
Cognizance KEN
Concerning ANENT
Conductor ___-Pekka Salonen ESA
Cries of discovery OHOS
Dallas team, informally MAVS
Department store department NOTIONS
Designer's job DECOR
Dog with a long, curled tail AKITA
Driver who talks CBER
Either of two O.T. books CHRON
End of the verse BEBLESSEDIFIKNOWWHERE
Enjoyed a soak BATHED
Epoch in which mammals became dominant EOCENE
Everyone has one EGO
Extensions ELLS
Fairy tale meanie OGRESS
Felt bad AILED
Fighting UNRULY
Footnote word IBIDEM
Game in which the 13 spades are laid faceup FARO
Game ragout SALMI
Girl of barbershop quartets ADELINE
Gr. 1-6 ELEM
Gunwale pin THOLE
Halliwell, formerly of the Spice Girls GERI
Having a few buttons missing BANANAS
Helped in a heist ABETTED
Hightailed it RAN
How some arguments are conducted HOTLY
Humdrum DRAB
Humiliate ABASE
Hunk ADONIS
In Shakespeare, the star in 'The star is fall'n' ANTONY
Indeed YEA
Infamous Amin IDI
Israeli leader with an eyepatch DAYAN
It's flashy STROBE
James Bond woman in 'Thunderball' FIONA
Jimmy of 'N.Y.P.D. Blue' SMITS
Johnson's vaudeville partner OLSEN
Kind of dame GRANDE
Kind of whale SPERM
Clues Answers
King in II Kings JEHU
Leatherneck MARINE
Like many wartime messages CODED
Like new MINT
Like rhinos HORNY
Loose ATLARGE
Loud ABLARE
Map abbr. RTE
Mauna ___ LOA
Medicine's ___ system ABO
More of the verse IHIDMYHOARDSOSLYLYILL
More of the verse INVENTIVENESSANDFLAIR
More than a cause CRUSADE
Moved easily SAILED
Mud, say OOZE
Mystery writer Josephine TEY
New York tribe ONEIDAS
Newsmaker of 2/20/62 GLENN
Nita of 'Blood and Sand,' 1922 NALDI
Nixon's first Defense Secretary LAIRD
Nosegay POSY
Not even-tempered MOODY
Nut LOON
Old holder of writing fluid INKHORN
Opposite of 1-Down GEE
Part of a fire safety program DRILL
Patent medicine, e.g. NOSTRUM
Pilgrims to Mecca HADJIS
Planned for, in a way BUDGETED
Prague's ___ University CHARLES
Pretty, to Burns BONNY
Prom needs GOWNS
Protozoan AMOEBA
Pupil's place EYE
Quake SHUDDER
Rain check? TARP
Razorbacks SWINE
Red or white wine PINOT
Red-spotted creatures NEWTS
River inlet RIA
Salaam BOW
Sartre's '___ Clos' HUIS
Satirist Brendan BEHAN
Secretary of War, 1940-45 STIMSON
Sharpen again REHONE
Sheltered ALEE
Site of the forges of Vulcan ETNA
Solidarity's birthplace GDANSK
Start of a verse WITHINGENUITYANDGUILE
Start of North Carolina's motto ESSE
Strips DENUDES
Suffix with Christ IAN
Table scrap ORT
The old folks MAANDPA
The works ALL
They're seen at court bashes TIARAS
Thorny BRIERY
Tip END
To boot TOO
Tortosa's river EBRO
Town ___ CRIER
Tricky ARTFUL
Wind dir. ESE
Writer Kingsley AMIS
Writer LeShan EDA
Wroth ANGRY
Yellow shade MAIZE
Yellowish-red SANDY
___-law SONIN