New York Times - Oct 12 2003

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Clues Answers
'Aeneid' figure EROS
'An Actor's Life' autobiographer HESTON
'Anything you want' THESKYSTHELIMIT
'Betsy's Wedding' actor ALDA
'Don't do me any favors' THANKYOUFORNOTHING
'Don't tell a soul' MUMSTHEWORD
'How can ___?' ITBE
'The Dukes of Hazzard' spin-off ENOS
'The Naked Jungle' menace ANTS
'Wheel of Fortune' request ANI
'___ Beso' (Paul Anka hit) ESO
38-Down's home ARABIA
47-Across and the like TALES
62-Down rival, for short AMEX
96-Down in 28-Across AMEER
A name that people lie about? SERTA
About ASTO
Agreement YES
Amethyst's mo. FEB
Apple products CIDERS
Apple products IMACS
Archer, at times AIMER
Bad feeling NOLOVELOST
Baseball's Maglie SAL
Basketball defenses ZONES
Be fair to a fault GIVETHEDEVILHISDUE
Be suspicious SMELLARAT
Big Apple subway, with 'the' LEX
Big show EXPO
Bird with brilliant green and scarlet plumage QUETZAL
Brim (with) TEEM
Brush off SPURN
Business card abbr. EXT
Bygone terror, for short TREX
Can openings? BREAKOUTS
Cape Province settlers BOERS
Cave DEN
Chewy treat SMORE
City next to the Twin Cities EDINA
Classic saga from which the expressions at 23-, 29-, 63-, 83-, 100-, 111- and 114-Across all originated DONQUIXOTE
Coolers ICEBOXES
Creator of 47-Across CERVANTES
Delhi attire SARI
Desserts baked in muffin tins BABAS
Driver's place LANE
Drop OMIT
Employer of many scientists NASA
Enya, notably NEWAGER
Euro competitor: Abbr. DOL
Evasive EELY
Faith: Abbr. REL
Figure of interest? RATE
Finish VENEER
Fishing need POLE
Flag down HAIL
Fleur-de-___ LIS
Flogged CANED
Fruitcake NUT
Gave rise to ENGENDERED
Get seated LOCATE
Grain bristle ARISTA
Grinder HERO
Haile Selassie follower RASTA
Hang back LAG
Harden, in a way OSSIFY
Hardly the full gamut ATOB
Headline STAR
Hebrew letters ALEPHS
Historic Italian family name ESTE
Holiday drinks NOGS
Clues Answers
Holman who was known as Mister Basketball NAT
In ___ (seething) ARAGE
Individually APIECE
Involved ELABORATE
It can be cured HAM
Kind of gun RADAR
Kind of position FETAL
Like most store-bought bread PRECUT
Like tigers and yaks ASIAN
Long John Silver feature ONELEG
Lord's Prayer start OUR
Lucie's dad DESI
Mamie Eisenhower ___ Doud NEE
Manhattan Project scientist FERMI
Mount HORSE
Newlywed in '68 headlines ARI
Nips and tucks ALTERS
Noted name in Scotch whiskey DEWAR
Old medicine? GERIATRICS
Ones in need of refinement ORES
Onetime Missouri tribe OSAGES
Ornamental shrub SPIREA
Pandora's release ILLS
Part of C.S.T.: Abbr. STD
Patriotic org. DAR
Pester HOUND
Plastic producer VISA
Popular house gift FERN
Potentate, say BIGMAN
Preacher CURATE
Pulitzer-winning TV critic TOMSHALES
Quick Internet message ENOTE
Quirk TIC
Raccoonlike mammal HONEYBEAR
Rages IRES
Reconciled MADEUP
Red, for one NLER
Relative affluence EASE
Reply to 'You are not!' IAMSO
Reply: Abbr. ANS
Rosary recital AVEMARIA
Saudi's neighbor OMANI
See 18-Down TAXES
See 92-Across LEE
Send on REFER
Set up FRAME
Short distance STONESTHROW
Short distance INCH
Shot in the arm HYPO
Small weight on the finger? CARAT
Some clothing shades DARKS
Some roarers ENGINES
Song syllable TRA
Straying ERRANT
They sometimes have presidents' names: Abbr. AVES
Time before EVE
Toothpaste introduced in 1915 IPANA
Unhurt OKAY
Up to now YET
W.W. II map: Abbr. ETO
Wanderer HOBO
Whistle, maybe ALERT
Wish, with 'to' ASPIRE
With 118-Across, subject of an I.R.S. request BACK
With 74-Down, Marvel Comics founder STAN
Word with sugar or cream PIE
Zoroastrian literature AVESTA
___ alcohol BUTYL
___ canto BEL
___ Miss OLE