New York Times - Apr 24 2002

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Clues Answers
$50 Boardwalk outlay RENT
'Fun, Fun, Fun' car TBIRD
'Maria ___' ELENA
'Ode to Psyche' poet KEATS
**** review RAVE
1979 Kinski title role TESS
1979-81 hostage site IRAN
20-, 39- or 53-Across, say PUN
A Muppet ELMO
Asia's ___ Sea ARAL
Attack SETAT
Author Silverstein SHEL
Barely beat EDGE
Basketball 'trophy' NET
Bassoon, e.g. REED
Bellicose god ARES
Bo-o-o-o-ring DEAD
Chutzpah GALL
Cloak-and-dagger person SPOOK
Dear's partner NEAR
Do-re-mi KALE
Eatery CAFE
Furnish for now LEND
Game decider in Bangkok? THAIBREAKER
Give the third degree GRILL
Great name? PETER
H.S. class ALG
Helsinki mother's exhortation? FINNISHYOURMEAL
Home of the Black Bears ORONO
Hong Kong neighbor: Var. MACAU
Involve ENTAIL
It's sometimes cast IRON
Jerks MORONS
Leave off OMIT
Leering sort OGLER
Like a Muscovite at 5 p.m.? RUSSIANHOME
Like some flushes ROYAL
Looie's subordinate SARGE
Loose ___ ENDS
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Lorelei's river RHINE
Makes better HEALS
Maraca, essentially RATTLE
Mournful peal KNELL
Neutral tone ECRU
Not bumpy EVEN
Not windward ALEE
Nouveau ___ RICHE
Old-fashioned dance locale BARN
Penny-pinching MEAN
Pizazz BRIO
Puts on the line RISKS
Qatar bigwig: Var. AMEER
Religious figure ABBE
Remove, Soviet-style PURGE
Roundup terminus CORRAL
S.A.T. section MATH
Sch. on the Charles River MIT
Scoring a 10 in gymnastics, say FEAT
Shampoo bottle instruction REPEAT
Short-billed rail SORA
Site of some Sargents TATE
Suffix with percent ILE
Suffix with towel ETTE
Swarmed TEEMED
Tees off IRES
Teleprompter's contents SPEECH
They're cast ACTORS
Title 'Mr.' of a 1939 film SMITH
Torso MIDDLE
Ultimatum word ELSE
Wasn't erect LEANT
Weasel out RENEGE
Whole lot TON
Worth a C FAIR
Zoning minimum, maybe ACRE
___ Gay (W.W. II plane) ENOLA
___ O's (Post cereal) OREO
___ ware (Japanese porcelain) IMARI