New York Times - Dec 7 2003

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Clues Answers
'Dear' ones SIRS
'I have ___ good authority' ITON
'Mockingbird' singer Foxx, 1963 INEZ
'Two Years Before the Mast' author DANA
'Wait ___!' ASEC
'Working Girl' girl TESS
Actress Bening ANNETTE
Affect emotionally STIR
Anna Karenina's husband ALEXEI
Article at the Louvre LES
Bare one's soul TELLALL
Beach eroder TIDE
Biblical peak HOREB
Bill: Abbr. INV
Blow away AWE
Book closing THEEND
Burning the midnight oil UPLATE
Business necessity? QUORUM
Cartoonist Tex and others AVERYS
Cerise or magenta, e.g. HUE
Certain addenda: Abbr. PSS
Chrysler Building feature SPIRE
Co-star of TV's 'Dharma & Greg' ELFMAN
Conger SEAEEL
Corporate woe DEBT
Court defense ZONE
CPR specialist EMT
Currency exchange board abbr. USD
Dentist's order OPEN
Depletes USESUP
Dig GOFOR
Do, for example NOTE
Donegal's home ULSTER
E. Lansing school MSU
Equine star MRED
Erode EATINTO
Essayist's alias ELIA
Exhibitionist, informally SHOWBOAT
Face-up SUPINE
Fall locale EDEN
Feminine suffix ENNE
Flies over the Nile TSETSES
Fluff pieces BOAS
Four quarters ONE
Four-time Indy 500 winner ALUNSER
Game of chance KENO
Go-getters TIGERS
Good guy MENSCH
Granular snow atop a glacier FIRN
Hammerin' Hank AARON
Hardly fresh MUSTY
Head start EDGE
Head-scratcher MYSTERY
Heartache WOE
Home of Iolani Palace OAHU
Hooligan, maybe RIOTER
Hudson Bay prov. ONT
Hula hoop? LEI
Imagined DREAMT
In other words, it comes in 100 tiny pieces SOMEASSEMBLYREQUIRED
In other words, it'll break in 24 hours USEONLYASRECOMMENDED
In other words, mom or dad will be out at midnight searching for an open store BATTERIESNOTINCLUDED
In other words, mom or dad will have to operate it NEEDSADULTSUPERVISION
In other words, no way it'll perform as advertised YOURRESULTSMAYDIFFER
In other words, you must spend $500 more to please your child FIGURESSOLDSEPARATELY
In that case THEN
Isolate ENISLE
It may be coiled, but it never strikes HOSE
Clues Answers
Kind of spirit TEAM
Like one who fans OUT
Like starers RUDE
Lot FATE
Make legally effective SIGN
Martinique, par exemple ILE
Marvel Comics heroes XMEN
Math calculations SLOPES
Message on a candy heart KISSME
Mid 6th-century year DLIV
Minds RESENTS
Mont Blanc, e.g., locally ALPE
Morales of 'N.Y.P.D. Blue' ESAI
More compact SOLIDER
N.F.L. stat: Abbr. YDS
National Gallery architect PEI
Neither masc. nor fem. NEUT
New Look designer DIOR
Not 'neath OER
Obeys LISTENS
One of the smart set MENSAN
One way to stop ONADIME
One who is 'just looking' EYER
Orinoco flow AGUA
Oscar-winning role for Julia ERIN
Part of a 1960's invasion BEATLE
Passbook amts. DEPS
Peace Nobelist Sakharov ANDREI
Pieces of one's mind?: Abbr. EEGS
Preceder of an un-altared name? NEE
Prince, e.g. SON
Pro or con SIDE
Prof. 'iggins ENRY
Promised land UTOPIA
Relatives of 'Gee whiz' and 'Shucks!' DANGS
Reputation ODOR
Saltpeter, to a Brit NITRE
See 108-Across GUM
She, to Sophia ESSA
Simpatico response IHEARYOU
Smits of the N.B.A. RIK
Some sorority women OMEGAS
Some time AWHILE
Sound units SONES
Spanish articles UNOS
Spot of bubbly? HOTTUB
Steak tartare ingredient, maybe RAWEGG
Tad IOTA
Tennis's Mandlikova HANA
The gardener in 'The Marriage of Figaro' ANTONIO
Ticket info GATE
Tokyo before 1868 EDO
Tom Clancy hero RYAN
Tough row to hoe ORDEAL
Unseen area of the moon FARSIDE
Venetian bigwig DOGE
View from Fontanarossa Intl. Airport MTETNA
Webster's entries: Abbr. DEFS
What's expected NORM
What's left in France RESTE
Wife of Esau ADAH
With 102-Across, a candy counter item since 1962 TRIDENT
Word from a coxswain STROKE
Word on the wall, in Daniel MENE
Work without ___ (be daring) ANET
Workers with lines FISHERS
___ citato (footnote phrase) OPERE
___ Wilson of 'The Royal Tenenbaums' OWEN