New York Times - Oct 6 2002

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Clues Answers
'... ___ he drove out of sight' ERE
'A Chapter on Ears' writer ELIA
'Dies ___' IRAE
'Easy!' NOSWEAT
'Eternal Spring' sculptor RODIN
'Excellent!' GREAT
'Gotcha' ISEE
'I Still See ___' ('Paint Your Wagon' tune) ELISA
'The Silence of the Lambs' director DEMME
'To ___ deeply is to live afresh': Thoreau REGRET
'Venus of Urbino' painter TITIAN
'What's ___ you?' ITTO
10's IDEALS
1994 Shirley MacLaine title role TESS
Actor Willie of 'Eight Is Enough' AAMES
Alternative to 'Saludo' BUENOSDIAS
Arezzo's river ARNO
As soon as ONCE
Bakery stock ECLAIRS
Bars INGOTS
Bass DEEP
Be candid LEVEL
Bel ___ cheese PAESE
Bend ARCH
Big cut GASH
Black Knights of college sports ARMY
Bldg. contractor's hire ENGR
Blockheaded lover has an accident on a rural road DENSEDEARDENTSDEER
Boorish boarder regretted scuttlebutt RUDEROOMERRUEDRUMOR
British title EARL
Browning piece SONNET
Bungle, with 'up' MESS
Buzzing about ADO
Caboose REAR
Cartoon Mr. MAGOO
Chant INTONE
Charge ONRUSH
Chou En-___ LAI
Clergy member PADRE
Clothing retailer since 1969 THEGAP
Collins's style permeates estate PHILSMANNERFILLSMANOR
Commando weapons UZIS
Compete in the Winter Olympics, maybe SKATE
Computer offerings MENUS
Conducting sites PODIA
Cool NONCHALANT
Cord fiber SISAL
Dance, e.g. ART
Depressed Dvorák was spendthrift BLUECZECHBLEWCHECK
Dept. of the Treasury dept. IRS
Diminutive suffix ULA
Dividend, mathematically OPERAND
Engage in frenzied concert activity MOSH
European peak ETNA
Factory machinery, e.g. ASSET
Fake NOTREAL
Festive event GALA
Figure skater Protopopov and others OLEGS
Football stats: Abbr. INTS
Former British protectorate OMAN
Fugard's 'A Lesson From ___' ALOES
Gave the O.K. SAIDSO
Gets down EATS
Given by word of mouth, as evidence PAROL
Group of strings, maybe OCTET
H, to Herodotus ETA
Hard conditions RIGORS
Hide-hair connector NOR
Indonesian tourist destination BALI
Jittery ANTSY
Clues Answers
Journalist Joseph ALSOP
Jump at a noise, e.g. REACT
Kind of test MRI
Kind of trip EGO
Kingdom east of Babylonia ELAM
Large number SCAD
Last Spanish king before Juan Carlos ALFONSO
Late rocker Ramone DEEDEE
Like the words of Jesus ARAMAIC
Literary monogram GBS
Loads ALOT
Luca ___, 'The Godfather' henchman BRASI
Maker of Twix and Starburst MARS
Merchant recognized animal in the basement SELLERKNEWCELLARGNU
Meter maid of song RITA
Metz Mrs. MME
Most insincere SMARMIEST
NBC's former owner RCA
Not only that but also NAY
Novelist Caleb CARR
November dish YAM
Observant one NOTER
Obtained: Fr. RECU
Off-Broadway's 'The Beauty Queen of ___' LEENANE
Old Soviet secret police org. OGPU
One watching for traffic NARC
One way to sing INKEY
Paris rival ROMEO
Part of a military defense, for short SAMS
Period of years ERA
Pioneering Dadaist ARP
Poet's contraction EEN
Prefix with linguistics META
Producer of sweet messages? ICER
Quarterback's call HUTTWO
Revs RACES
Rework AMEND
Ring ENCLOSE
Ring leader? TORERO
Rome-to-Athens dir. ESE
Rotating piece CAM
Salt-___ (rap trio) NPEPA
Shake up STARTLE
Six months from julio ENERO
Small amounts DABS
Soccer stat ASSIST
Some Dodges NEONS
Some jazz BOP
Spring site TRAP
Sprout TOT
Star turn SOLO
Start of a French oath SACRE
Step on it SOLE
Stout LUSTY
Talk of Toledo ESPANOL
Threaten IMPEND
Toni Morrison book SULA
Treater MEDIC
Two-time Oscar-winning director Frank ___ LLOYD
Unfailing TRUSTY
Victim in a 1932 mystery novel, with 'the' THINMAN
W.W. I battle site YSER
Went downhill RANTOSEED
Where William the Conqueror is buried CAEN
Williams of 'Happy Days' ANSON
Wish HOPEFOR
Wray of 'King Kong' FAY
Zest producer RIND
___ the way PAVE
___-Novo (Benin's capital) PORTO