New York Times - Dec 2 1999

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Clues Answers
'There was an Old Man with a beard' writer LEAR
'Yeah, that'll ever happen' ASIF
Beginning on ASOF
Bellowing AROAR
Biblical 'father' ABBA
Bit of sustenance FOODSTUFF
Black shade COAL
Browning's Ben Ezra, e.g. RABBI
Cable conduit DUCT
Calls upon ASKS
Careless LAX
Clause separator EMDASH
Collude (with) SCHEME
Cologne ingredient MUSK
Composer Bartok BELA
Constellation directly above the equator ORION
Dark UNLIT
Deftness EASE
Distant ALOOF
Doc bloc AMA
Doubleday, ___ (old publishing house) DORAN
Effort STAB
Elizabeth I's ill-fated favorite ESSEX
Giant screen production IMAX
Hardly a he-man SISSY
Houston player, formerly ASTRO
Idler DONOTHING
Impieties SINS
Integra, for one ACURA
Intertwine ENLACE
It may precede a stroke FORE
Italy's fertile Val d'___ ARNO
Item in an airline magazine MAP
Kind of toast MELBA
Language group including Zulu BANTU
Lollapalooza LULU
Makes hay BALES
Might-have-been East Coast team NEWYORKREDCOATS
Clues Answers
Might-have-been Midwest team STLOUISORDINALS
Might-have-been West Coast team SEATTLELANDSMEN
Mojave vegetation CACTI
Naif BABE
Native Indian in the British army SEPOY
Needing to take off OBESE
Net result? EMAIL
Noggin NOODLE
Notch NICK
Numbered piece OPUS
Old World language ERSE
Oozes EXUDES
Outdo BEST
Pacific capital APIA
PC character representation ASCII
Pinnacle APEX
Popular cologne TABU
Port in Scott's 'Lord of the Isles' OBAN
Princess whom Zeus carried off to Crete EUROPA
Protest BEEF
Ropes for steadying masts STAYS
Rose's beloved in a 1922 play ABIE
Russia/Manchuria boundary river AMUR
Salk's conquest POLIO
Saratoga Springs, e.g. SPA
Show fully BARE
Side in a vote NAYS
Some 20's art DADA
Stock exchange membership SEAT
Street director? MASON
Strong-willed Jane EYRE
Sufficient for Shakespeare ENOW
Swindle BILK
Taunt GIBE
Toll unit AXLE
Up ___ good TONO
Ups HIKES
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