New York Times - Dec 20 1998

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'Anything for You' singer Gloria ESTEFAN
'Dies ___' IRAE
'Give the dog ___' ABONE
'Sunset Boulevard' actress Nancy OLSON
'The Violent Land' author AMADO
'Yay!' RAH
'___ Dance' (Grieg favorite) ANITRAS
'___ pinch of salt...' ADDA
'___ Want for Christmas' ALLI
11th-century cathedral city NIMES
1940's-60's world leader NEHRU
A.L.'er until 1960 SENATOR
Academic types PHDS
Academy head PLATO
Actor Alastair SIM
Actor George of 'Disraeli' ARLISS
Actress Valli of 'The Third Man' ALIDA
Antitoxins SERA
Apiece PER
Awry AMISS
Baker's supply YEAST
Bear up under ENDURE
Binge TOOT
Biological suffix CYTE
Blue ___ GROTTO
Brit. W.W. II heroes RAF
Bump's place LOG
Call ___ day ITA
Celestial beings SERAPHS
Celestial beings SERAPHS.
Certifies ATTESTS
Chess log MOVES
Coagulates CLOTS
Composer ___ Carlo Menotti GIAN
Department store department MENS
Directional suffix ERN
Doña ___, 'The Violent Land' lady ANA
Easy chair site DEN
Edge of a rampart BERM
End of the verse INMYCHRISTMASHOLIDAZE
Experienced PRO
False names ANONYMS
Fam. member REL
Feeling CHORD
Fellows HES
Fine fleece LLAMA
Flatten IRON
Flattened RAZED
Flip, in a way EVERT
Florence's ___ Palace PITTI
Florida beach name DELRAY
Former 'S.N.L.' comic PISCOPO
Fraternity letter PSI
French pronoun TOI
Frenchman GAUL
Garlands LEIS
George of 'Route 66' MAHARIS
Get fixed ORIENT
Give a mighty blow SMITE
Go (for) OPT
H.S. class ENG
Hose woes SNAGS
Hut HOVEL
In a sluggish way INERTLY
Informal wear JEANS
It begins 'In the first year of Cyrus...' EZRA
Jackson known as 'Mr. October' REGGIE
Jardin zoologique inhabitants BETES
Jinx HOODOO
Kind of witness MATERIAL
Leftovers REST
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Like Falstaff FAT
Like Lucy Locket's pocket LOST
Like shoes HEELED
Lollygags LAZES
Most sore ACHIEST
Musical vamp INTRO
Nasty biter ASP
New York, e.g. SEAPORT
Nicholas III's family name ORSINI
Noisy bed-partner SNORER
Not a grade to be proud of DEE
Not a grade to be proud of DEE.
Not bare CLAD
Olympics entrant: Abbr. ATH
Ooze SEEP
Part 2 of the verse THATIMSHOPPINGINAHAZE
Part 3 of the verse EVERYSEASONITURNDIZZY
Part of A.D. ANNO
Phrase of explanation IDEST
Pike ROAD
Pilaster ANTA
Porn SMUT
Portended PRESAGED
Pound a beat PATROL
Praying figure ORANT
Prepare, in a way GROOM
Prepared to propose, perhaps KNELT
Pulitzer-winning writer Sheehan NEIL
Punish, in a way, as a student SUSPEND
Puppeteer Bil BAIRD
Put through a furnace SMELT
Queen's land SHEBA
Regarding INRE
Regarding ASTO
Relig. school SEM
Relishes ENJOYS
Rita Hayworth's Khan ALY
Rob RIFLE
Schroeder's predecessor as chancellor KOHL
Scrappy fellow? RAGMAN
Scythe handle SNATH
Site of a 1943 Allied victory PALERMO
Smallest of HOMES ONTARIO
Smashed TOTALED
Soft drink Mr. ___ PIBB
Sound at the door RAP
South African antelopes RHEBOKS
Start of a verse ITSALLRIGHTIFIMSOBUSY
Storehouse ARSENAL
Sully SOIL
Super Bowl III hero NAMATH
To Shakespeare he was 'high in all the people's hearts' BRUTUS
Tolkien tree-men ENTS
Top of a platter ASIDE
Tops AONE
Trans-Pacific stopping point GUAM
W.C.T.U. members DRYS
W.W. II beachhead ANZIO
Wedding march skipper ELOPER
Whatever ANYKIND
Word SAYSO
Work OPUS
Worldwide workers' grp. ILO
Zero in (on) FOCUS
[Out of my way!] BEEP
___ even keel ONAN
___ Park ESTES
___ Sound, Fla. HOBE
___-Prayer DIALA.
___-Prayer DIALA