New York Times - Mar 19 1997

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%: Abbr. PCT
'Hold On Tight' rock group ELO
'It ___ to Be You' HAD
'Speed' name KEANU
'Stormy' sea bird PETREL
'The Island of the Day Before' author ECO
'The Joy Luck Club' author TAN
'The Star-Spangled Banner' preposition OER
'___ Miserables' LES
1978 Peace Prize winner SADAT
A & W rival BARQS
Actor Kristofferson KRIS
Actress Kitt EARTHA
Ancient Italian ETRUSCAN
Biting ACERB
Bomb tryouts ATESTS
Canea resident CRETAN
Code words for 'A' ALFAS
Common swab QTIP
Computer's 'guts,' for short CPU
Con job SCAM
Diagonal chess capture BXQ
Dwellers along the Volga TATARS
Estrada of 'CHiPs' ERIK
Et ___ (and the following) SEQ
Firebrands AROUSERS
Freeze ICEUP
Galley items OARS
He went east of Eden CAIN
Hebrew letter before resh QOPH
Hold protectively CRADLE
Imitate Mel Torme SCAT
Informative dialogues QANDASESSIONS.
Listening device EAR
Marquee names STARS
Meditation syllables OMS
Mensa hurdles IQTESTS
Minuscule WEE
Most typewriters have them QWERTYKEYBOARDS
Clues Answers
Motel approver, briefly AAA
Move a muscle STIR
Not moving ATREST
Office furniture DESKS
Paint ingredient LATEX
Part of a spool NOTCH
Persian Gulf nation QATAR
Pianist Rudolf SERKIN
Pinball path ARC
Pintful, perhaps ALE
Playful water animal OTTER
Poker payments ANTES
Popular N.B.A. nickname SHAQ
Potato pancakes LATKES
Prefix with space or stat AERO
Proof finale QED
Protection against chills SHAWL
Resell at inflated prices SCALP
Run amok RIOT
Saddam Hussein's title PRESIDENTOFIRAQ
Send another E-mail message REPOST
Shire of 'For Richer, For Poorer' TALIA
Signs of winter's end BUDS
Slinky or yo-yo TOY
Some Romanovs TSARS
Some sculptures TORSOS
Spine-tingling EERIE
Stephen of 'The Crying Game' REA
Suffers AILS
Take the gold WIN
Tampa Bay player, for short BUC
They avail themselves of Vail SKIERS
This is one for the books AUDIT
Title for Cervantes SENOR
To date YET
Word in an octagon STOP
Work without ___ (risk injury) ANET
___ Canals SOO
___ center REC