New York Times - Apr 16 2001

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Clues Answers
'Is that your final ___?' ANSWER
'My Fair Lady' lady ELIZA
Ab strengthener SITUP
According to ___ HOYLE
Action before blowing out the candles WISH
Actors Robert and Alan ALDAS
Any symphony OPUS
Arousing EROTIC
Artist Mondrian PIET
Back talk SASS
Because SINCE
Become enraged SEERED
Birthstone after sapphire OPAL
Book after II Chronicles EZRA
Bottled spirits GENIES
Candies that burn the mouth HOTS
Central spot MIDST
Cheese nibblers MICE
Command ORDER
Company V.I.P. EXEC
Courtroom figures PUBLICDEFENDERS
D.C. bigwigs POLS
Desserts that give chills ICES
Earth rulers in a 1968 film APES
Edmonton N.H.L. team OILERS
Entirely ALL
Figured out SOLVED
German industrial city ESSEN
Hack's vehicle TAXI
Hertz rival AVIS
Hosted EMCEED
Ida Lupino, e.g. FILMNOIRACTRESS
Imperious Roman NERO
Indian dress SARI
Ingmar Bergman, e.g. SWEDE
Kilns OVENS
Kuwaiti ruler EMIR
Lassos RIATAS
Last governor of New Netherland PETERSTUYVESANT
Clues Answers
Lawyers' charges FEES
Like 24-karat gold PURE
Like fishers' hooks BAITED
Like octogenarians OLD
Loch ___ monster NESS
Low digit? TOE
Make a seam SEW
Make do COPE
Music to do the hustle to DISCO
Ooze SEEP
Opera songs ARIAS
Parts with thorns STEMS
Pepsi or RC COLA
Places for experiments LABS
Poem of praise ODE
Proofreader's mark STET
Put away STOW
Ran without moving IDLED
Recent med school graduate INTERN
Requirement NEED
Sawbuck TEN
Scattered, as seed SOWED
Sheik's bevy HAREM
Singles ONES
Sleeping sickness carrier TSETSE
Squalid neighborhood SLUM
Stares open-mouthed GAPES
Striped official REF
Successful, in Variety BOFFO
The Little Mermaid's name ARIEL
Tilling tools HOES
Time of the year SEASON
Top 40 songs HITS
Topic of gossip ITEM
Ulysses S. Grant's real first name HIRAM
Wear away ERODE
Winding road shape ESS
Write on metal ETCH
___ Stanley Gardner ERLE