New York Times - Dec 21 2002

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'A Little Bitty Tear' hit maker, 1962 IVES
'Absolutely not,' e.g. FLATDENIAL
'Aunt' with a 'Cope Book' ERMA
'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' rhyme scheme AABA
'The pressure ___' ISON
About ASTO
Affects adversely, as by a sudden change WHIPLASHES
Apparently amazed AGAPE
Be for a time ACTAS
Beget SIRE
Car bars STRUTS
Comics collection STRIPS
Daughter of Hyperion EOS
Decision-making place CROSSROADS
Declares off-limits BANS
Dilly PEACH
Dived HITTHEDIRT
Don't be cruel HAVEAHEART
Enclosed in a shell KERNELED
Examination location: Abbr. SCH
Extinct relatives of ostriches MOAS
Feasted ATE
Generous gifts LARGESSE
Gin ENTRAP
Grayish-green palette pigment TERREVERTE
Hanger-on at the polls? CHAD
Hues TONES
Inconstant people RENEGERS
Irked reaction RISE
Island divided almost in half by the Equator SUMATRA
It's fit to be tied SNEAKER
It's taken before firing AIM
Joint Chiefs member: Abbr. GEN
Kind of bun SESAMESEED
Latin possessive MEA
Clues Answers
Legal analyst Van Susteren GRETA
Legendary Giant's family OTTS
Longer DESIRER
Major attar source DAMASKROSE
Mysterious swimmer SEASERPENT
Nautical adverb ALEE
Nonsharer PIG
Novel need SETTING
One may be disagreeable ODOR
One often ending sentences with 'man' BEATNIK
One who knows what's up? ASTRONOMER
Originate STEM
Place for an ace? SLEEVE
Powerful auto engine HEMI
Prepare to cook DRESS
Question from behind a counter WHOSNEXT
Revelation response AHA
Roller in a pit TRAM
Shout to an impatient crowd ONEATATIME
Smallville surname KENT
Sonata sections RONDOS
Spinoff of TV's 'Hercules' XENA
Storms ATTACKS
Support system SHORING
Teatimes: Abbr. AFTS
They're not good to be behind BARS
Tizzy LATHER
Unlike Ike: Abbr. DEM
Very slim margin HAIR
Very slim margin NOSE
Warning before a bite, perhaps SNARL
What some birds do MOLT
When restrictions are lifted OPENSEASON
Works in la galería ARTE
Yangtze feeder HAN