New York Times - Jun 11 1998

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Clues Answers
'Smooth Operator' chanteuse SADE
'When ___ Love' (Van Halen hit) ITS
A growing concern? FUNGUS
Abbr. in a marathon time HRS
Acclaim KUDOS
Administer ENFCE
Aloud ORAY
Architect ___ van der Rohe MIES
Assignments TASKS
Attempts EFFTS
Bead material NACRE
Bellhop, at times TOTER
Beset ASSAILED
Beside oneself? CLOD
Big name in gyms GOLDS
Bone: Prefix OSTE
Boombox button abbr. REC
Botch MISDO
Cable inits. TNT
Comic Johnson ARTE
Costner's role in 'The Untouchables' NESS
Covers the earth SODS
Director Sidney LUMET
Dummy STOOGE
Dwindled WANED
End of a list of names ETAL
Exit EGRESS
Expensive eggs? ROE
Familiar political promises REFMS
First name in beauty ESTEE
Flying body? FUSELAGE
French books LIVRES
Give a hand AID
Group with a hint to this puzzle's theme THREEMUSKETEERS
Jane who stayed at Thornfield EYRE
King Arthur's father UTHER
Like some singing ALTO
Lincolnesque HOST
Lives DWELLS
Clues Answers
Lurer of sailors, in myth CIRCE
Make out NECK
Making (out) EKING
Marker IOU
Middling mark CEE
Mideast chief AMEER
Mucks MUDS
Nostrils NARES
Noted object of a wait GODOT
Old-fashioned conveyance SHAY
One who can hardly be made out MUTTERER
Operate ACT
Opposite of lead STRAGGLE
Order to Fido FETCH
Overshadow DWARF
Poly-sci subjects ISMS
Prefix with thermal ISO
Provides AFFDS
Scintilla IOTA
Shirt sizes SMAS
Shows curiosity ASKS
Site of a W.W. I Allied victory YSER
Six-foot vis-à-vis five-foot TAER
Skip OMIT
Something for nothing FREERIDE
Specialty, so to speak AREA
Squint (at) PEER
Suffix in rock names ITE
Sweethearts LASSES
Symbol of thinness WAFER
They have bar signs RESTS
Things on rings STOS
Thrill ELATE
Vane dir. ESE
Vexed GAED
War stat. MIA
Woman of Paris ELLE
Wraps up ENVELOPS
Xerox products TORS