New York Times - Jan 8 1998

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'Whether ___ nobler...' TIS
1896 Teatro Regio premiere LABOHEME
1904 La Scala premiere MADAMABUTTERFLY
1917 Monte Carlo premiere LARONDINE
1918 Met premiere ILTABARRO
1926 La Scala premiere TURANDOT
A bunch LOADS
Abbr. in many org. names NATL
Actor Malcolm-___ Warner JAMAL
Actress Atkins et al. EILEENS
Aircraft ___ CARRIER
Albéniz piano masterpiece IBERIA
Angle type ACUTE
Apply gold leaf to GILD
Aspiring atty.'s exam LSAT
Attack verbally DUMPON
Benefit, often GALA
Big pig BOAR
Blvds. STS
Bring about CAUSE
By NEAR
Comes out with SAYS
Contents of some banks DATA
Corday's victim MARAT
Dash ELAN
Deep-six CAN
Defense grp. abolished in 1977 SEATO
Diet NOCAL
Discern SEE
Duck down EIDER
Ending with cloth or cash IER
First Lady in 1900 IDA
Fix, as a soundtrack REDUB
Fossey's fascination APES
Friendly GENIAL
Hamilton's prov. ONT
Have ___ in one's bonnet ABEE
Hot blood IRE
Island close to Mull IONA
Clues Answers
Israel Philharmonic director MEHTA
Italian car, briefly ALFA
Kind of pad STENO
Like Lex Luthor EVIL
Like old records MONO
Neat as ___ APIN
Not rosé BLANC
Not yet final, legally NISI
Notice in passing OBIT
Oppositionist ANTI
Physics unit OHM
Picture holders ALBUMS
Places for pickles JARS
Purpose USE
Ropemaking fiber ABACA
Round home NEST
Rowlands of 'Gloria' GENA
Sci-fi's Lester ___ Rey DEL
Shakespearean hero TIMON
Silents actress Talmadge NORMA
Slowdowns LAGS
Stat. that's good when low ERA
Stew seasoning THYME
Suffix with Saturn ALIA
Sully TAINT
Surreptitiously thwart SANDBAG
Tap problems DRIPS
Theme of this puzzle OPERASBYPUCCINI
Theseus abandoned her ARIADNE
Tres less dos UNO
True-to-life REAL
Unceasingly EVER
Undergrad degs. BAS
Vanzetti's partner in anarchy SACCO
Where some losers hang out SPA
Where the Storting sits OSLO
Without extra toppings PLAIN
Write up, as a speeder CITE
___ vincit amor OMNIA