New York Times - Jun 16 2002

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Clues Answers
'... sting like ___' ABEE
'Boola Boola' singers ELIS
'How adorable!' AWW
'My goodness!' YIPE
'O wad some Pow'r the ___ gie us': Burns GIFTIE
'Sweet' herb BASIL
'___ ideas?' ANY
'___ sez ...' SOI
'___ sorry!' IMSO
82-Across denizens CURS
Absorbed, as a loss ATE
Academic achievement TENURE
Accountants used to dip into them INKWELLS
Adder's-tongue, e.g. FERN
Adventure tale of 1847 OMOO
As expected DULY
At the same level (with) ONAPAR
Baby holder CRIB
Baseball club BAT
Battlefield of April 6-7, 1862 SHILOH
Be bothered MIND
Bedrock pet DINO
Big tippler WINO
Bush Sr.'s bailiwick, 1976-77 CIA
Bygone relative of the kiwi MOA
Cab Calloway's signature line HIDEHO
Certain set of lines from Petrarch SESTET
Changes the boundaries of REMAPS
City in Tuscany SIENA
Cluster KNOT
Come before ANTEDATE
Common sense? SMELL
Country almost 1,000 miles long SWEDEN
Crème flavorer MENTHE
Cunning ARCH
Curling place RINK
Custom HABIT
Dark-nosed Tasmanian? DUSKBILLEDPLATYPUS
Disloyal sort FINK
Doctor Zhivago YURI
Doesn't go straight YAWS
Drain EMPTY
Duties for generals? BRASSTASKS
Enlargement: Abbr. INCR
Escorts can be gotten here CARLOT
Ethereal AERY
Excited cry OHOH
Extremely short supply LASTONE
Fad doll, once ELMO
Fast reverse curve SLIDER
Final words OBIT
First name in portraits MONA
French cop GENDARME
Friend of Prince Henry FALSTAFF
Full of meaning DEEP
Grasp FATHOM
Gross ICKY
Grp. that spans an ocean NATO
Halfway around the bases ONSECOND
Hardly a sophisticate RUBE
Hippie gathering of a sort BEIN
How anchovies are packed INOIL
How long one might stay AWHILE
Hummingbirds do it FLIT
In direct opposition TOETOTOE
Incalculable UNTOLD
Initials on a Nascar car STP
It may hang by the neck JOWL
Judge Lance ITO
Kind of chop LOIN
Clues Answers
Kind of flash NEWS
Letter switched to ess in this puzzle's theme CEE
Like low-sodium foods, say DIETETIC
Like noxious gases FUMY
Liked, with 1-Down CARED
Longing REPINING
Low wind instrument BASSSAX
Lustrous white PEARLY
Made fun of JEEREDAT
Magazine for extreme dieters? FASTSANDFIGURES
Manage MAKEDO
Mentioned SAID
More smooth SILKIER
Motto of a romance novelist? MUSHTOBEDESIRED
Nels of 'Little House on the Prairie' OLESON
Nonsensical IDIOTIC
Old tourist slogan for Black Sea resorts? BASKINTHEUSSR
Out of order AMISS
Part of an exchange TAT
Peel in a drink TWIST
Peer Gynt's mother ASE
Peter of 'Casbah' LORRE
Place for a halo MOON
Player second only to Gretzky in most N.H.L. goals HOWE
Pluck SPUNK
Popular tune for tenor or accordion OSOLEMIO
Prairielands abroad STEPPES
Provide, as access AFFORD
Pubmates LADS
Put down, slangily DISSED
Put one's legs up REST
Quarterback Rodney PEETE
Rebuffs NOS
Reef locale CAY
Rein in CURB
Rip-offs SCAMS
Scout master? TONTO
See 118-Across FOR
See 90-Across ALL
Site of ancient Aquitania GAUL
Slangy turndown IXNAY
Slice (off) LOP
Smog-fighting grp. EPA
Space invaders, for short ETS
Spare parts source JUNKYARD
Spring-y chicken? BRISKLAYER
Staff note SOL
Standing REPUTE
Start of a one-two punch LEFTJAB
Stay awake nights FRET
Stole material MINK
Stowe gear SKIS
Sugar source BEET
Sushi offering ROLL
Take the lead STAR
The Abode of Peace BRUNEI
They may flare up EMBERS
Toiler SERF
Toll site CANAL
Top of the line BEST
Unable to see in any direction FOGBOUND
Under cover? INBED
Walk softly PAD
Wears away ABRADES
Where wads of gum may be found? THEBOTTOMOFTHEDESK
Whistle-blower REF
With 64-Down, a down-home pronoun YOU
Woman in Sherlock Holmes stories IRENE
Wooed successfully WON
___ about (roughly) ONOR