New York Times - Dec 23 2001

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'Bon ___!' APPETIT
'Eugene Onegin' mezzo OLGA
'Krazy ___' KAT
'Oh, dear!' MYMY
'Three's Company' actress SOMERS
'Two owls and ___ ...': Lear AHEN
10/10/73 resignee AGNEW
1917 role for 30-Down, informally CLEO
1980's TV group ATEAM
1984 Paul McCartney hit SOBAD
1989 Literature Nobelist CELA
A pop PER
ABC's BASICS
Abruzzi bell town ATRI
Affectionate family name SIS
An Astaire ADELE
Aqua ___ PURA
Austen novel EMMA
Beards AWNS
Biblical place of punishment TOPHET
Big name in book publishing FARRAR
Biol. subject ANAT
Black bird ANI
Bobolink's kin ORIOLE
Canny SHREWD
Carrier TOTER
Certain swords RAPIERS
Chart MAPOUT
Christopher Plummer's Tony-winning title role of 1973 CYRANO
Company that cares for the face and hands TIMEX
Connect to secretly TAP
Cousins of monorails ELS
Cow-catcher LARIAT
Cracked a bit AJAR
Crackpot NUT
Cries on ships AYS
Diminutive suffix ULE
Discredit sneakily BACKSTAB
Duke Ellington's '___ It Bad and That Ain't Good' IGOT
End of the verse BYJUMPINGDOWNACHIMINI
Ennui, with 'the' BLAHS
Epitome of lightness AIR
Explode BURST
Foot IAMB
French roll call response ICI
Fuses CEMENTS
G.I. mailing address APO
Galileo, for one PISAN
Gas-operated machine gun BREN
George M. ___ COHAN
Get a sense of FEELOUT
Get without effort INHERIT
Giants' grp. NFC
Gossiped DISHED
Groucho's 'Duck Soup' role RUFUS
Gurkha, e.g. NEPALI
H.S. hurdles SATS
Hall-of-Famer Bobby ORR
Hardly a summer house IGLOO
Hold forth ORATE
Houston, for one MATT
In the distance AFAR
Infamous Amin IDI
Joe Cocker's 'You ___ Beautiful' ARESO
Karen ___ (Isak Dinesen) BLIXEN
Kitchen suffix ETTE
Largest city in Md. BALTO
Letter add-ons: Abbr. PSS
Like a breadmaker's hands, maybe FLOURY
Like many scolders' arms AKIMBO
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Like olden times, supposedly SIMPLER
Like some stocks: Abbr. OTC
Make a chess move CASTLE
Make a little 'night music' SNORE
Make ___ for APLAY
Many a tractor-trailer TANDEM
Margaret Mead interviewee SAMOAN
Motor suffix OLA
Natchez-to-Memphis dir. NNE
Native of the Steppes TATAR
Nocturnal insect EARWIG
Not fully digest SKIM
Not just 'no!' NEVER
Noted Virginia family LEES
Novelist Barker CLIVE
Ogled STAREDAT
Onetime West African kingdom ASHANTI
Papal vestment ORALE
Pasture LEA
Patrick who won a 1966 Tony for 'Marat/Sade' MAGEE
Pharmaceutical ointment OLEATE
Picket line ignorer SCAB
Place for a patch TEAR
Plies a needle SEWS
Poet laureate of 1700 TATE
Polo, e.g. SHIRT
Puppeteer Bil BAIRD
Rani's wear SARI
Razor brand BIC
Reach ATTAIN
Recap SUMUP
Restroom door sign WOMEN
Russia's ___ Mountains URAL
Scratch MAR
See 17-Down BARA
Site of 'interstates' H1, H2 and H3 OAHU
Sizable skirts MAXIS
Skin defect WEN
Soluble mineral salt ALKALI
Some bays MARES
Spanish Almighty DIOS
Staples Center player LAKER
Start of a verse WHENSANTASPOLARCLIMES
Steps GAITS
Subject of a clipping? TOENAIL
Substitute FILLIN
Swept WON
Tailor's concern FIT
Takes in ADOPTS
Tanning agent SUNSHINE
They cut quite a swath SCYTHES
They need to be chewed SOLIDS
Took care of SAWTO
Toothsome TASTY
Turkish hospice IMARET
TV exec Roone ARLEDGE
Verse, part 2 MAKESANTASOBFORBIMINI
Verse, part 3 HEWARMSHIMSELFATTIMES
Wee TINY
When Christmas comes in Polynésie ETE
Win back the favor of MAKEUPTO
Wipe out EFFACE
Words before 'calm' and 'bright' ALLIS
x, y or z AXIS
Yawning AGAPE
Zenith, metaphorically NOON
Zeno's home ELEA
___ du Diable ILE
___ pro nobis ORA
___ spumante ASTI