New York Times - Mar 4 2001

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'Darn!' RATS
'Isn't that cute!' exclamations AWS
'Popeye' creator SEGAR
'Xanadu' rock grp. ELO
1992 also-ran PEROT
Abbr. in a G. & S. title HMS
Absolute twit ZERO
Additionally ALSO
Afore ERE
Airhead's lack? CLUE
Alligator ___ PEAR
Amas, to us YOULOVE
Anna of 'Nana' STEN
Article in Le Monde UNE
Assails SETSAT
Attention-getting calls YOOHOOS
Author Tan AMY
Biblical name meaning 'hairy' ESAU
Bonnie Blue Butler's dad RHETT
Boycotter of the '84 L.A. Olympics USSR
Bracken, for one FERN
British flashlight TORCH
Broten of hockey fame NEAL
Bus. phone components EXTS
Caesarean conquest GAUL
Capital of Valais canton, Switzerland SION
Censorship-fighting org. ACLU
Cheri of 'S.N.L.' OTERI
Cherokees, e.g. JEEPS
Circle ___ (theater group) REP
Classic toy company IDEAL
Consonantal trio RST
Corn-based loaves PONES
Cry at fireworks OOH
Do some rummaging for a cabinet part? SIFTFORONESHELF
Drinks fit for a lady? SHEWORTHYSIPS
Driver's destination? HOLE
Each APOP
Elvis's record label RCA
Ends CEASES
Engage HIRE
Entablature part FRIEZE
Field of Battle OPERA
Fine fiddle STRAD
First-rate TOPS
Fliers in Arabian tales ROCS
Freshen RENEW
Fully anesthetized OUT
Furry floater OTTER
Fuzzbuster's finding RADAR
Game ragout SALMI
Get hot and bothered STEAMUP
Get wind of HEAR
Goats' coats MOHAIRS
Golden-___ AGER
Grantorto's victim in 'The Faerie Queene' IRENA
Gray area? DIXIE
Greek goddess of chance TYCHE
Group that ignores four-way stops, e.g.? THESHUNSIGNBOYS
Hans Christian Andersen's birthplace ODENSE
Hardly original writing REHASH
Impudent PERT
Impudent SASSY
Informal sign-off LATER
Inits. in journalism NPR
Internet bathing/grooming site come-on? SOPONLINEANDSHAVE
Israel's Peres SHIMON
It's a lifesaver NET
Italian poet of 'Rinaldo' TASSO
Job preceder ESTHER
Clues Answers
Jong with a 'Fear of Fifty' ERICA
Knight errant, often QUESTER
La Guardia : LGA :: O'Hare : ___ ORD
Leatherworking tool AWL
Let up ABATE
Like some gases INERT
Literary awards EDGARS
Long (for) ACHE
Lowest ship's deck ORLOP
Maharani wraps SARIS
Martha in denture ads RAYE
Mexican leader JEFE
Mobster's speech, maybe RASP
Nobel poet Neruda PABLO
Nomad ROAMER
Nonconformist MISFIT
Nothing other than MERE
Oft-broken promise IDO
Olio MEDLEY
One quoted CITEE
Online item EMAIL
Oral vaccine developer SABIN
Orbital extremes APOGEES
Order to a nurse STAT
Payment to expedite service BAKSHEESH
Perry Como hit '___ Marie' TINA
Pilot AVIATE
Piqued state SNIT
Polo field? ASIA
Pottery flaw NICK
Public house potable ALE
Put on DON
Quadratics and such ALGEBRA
Quick AGILE
Radio station on old TV WKRP
Rake part TINE
Ranch in 'Giant' REATA
Replacement therapy hormones ESTROGENS
Richard of 'Runaway Bride' GERE
Rising agent YEAST
River of Brandenburg ODER
Roles in 'The Piano' and 'Tobacco Road' ADAS
Seeks legal redress with stunning effect? SUESANDSHOCKS
Shirk duties, slangily SKATE
Shuffled (along) MOSEYED
Some have tears DUCTS
South Seas islander SAMOAN
Speaker's need TWEETER
Specialties AREAS
Suggestive RISQUE
Sweetums HON
Take stock of ASSESS
Ticket type ONEWAY
Toy making a comeback YOYO
Turkish title AGHA
TV audience unit: Abbr. MIL
Very long stretch AEON
Vessel at socials URN
Vietnamese dictator Ngo Dinh ___ DIEM
Vocal ensemble, maybe OCTET
What an inept surgeon might do? SEWYOUTOYOURSHEET
What the drunk roofer's boss had to do? FIREASHINGLESOT
Worth MERIT
WYSIWYG, on sales tags ASIS
Xerox REPRODUCE
Xylophone cousin MARIMBA
You can count on them ABACI
___ lily (Utah's flower) SEGO
___ out (relax, like, totally) VEG
___-Ration (dog food) KENL