New York Times - Aug 4 2002

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Clues Answers
'Ad Astra per ___' (Kansas' motto) ASPERA
'Battle Cry' novelist URIS
'Cheers' regular DIANE
'Comin' ___ the Rye' THRO
'Cool' ones CATS
'Goodbye' and 'amen,' usually LASTWORDSSAID
'Master' SAHIB
'O, gie me the ___ that has acres o' charms': Burns LASS
'Soap,' for one SERIAL
1/2 fluid oz. TBSP
1967 hit that begins 'You know that it would be untrue' LIGHTMYFIRE
52-Down gear SONAR
Alternative to draw LOSE
Antarctic penguin ADELIE
Antipoverty agcy. OEO
Archaeologist's prize ARTIFACT
Argue HAVEWORDSOVER
Author Marsh NGAIO
Author Wiesel ELIE
Bad-mouth DIS
Because INTHAT
Beep PAGE
Believe DEEM
Big name in watches CASIO
Bone: Prefix OSTE
Bout of indulgence SPREE
Breaks up hurriedly SCATTERS
Brief denial NOTI
Brother MONK
Build ERECT
By that reasoning ERGO
Cab Calloway catchphrase HIDEHO
Carlo Levi's novel town EBOLI
CD finale? ROM
Classic bank giveaway TOASTER
Conscious SENTIENT
Cool, once BOSS
Country whose official language is Dzongkha BHUTAN
Cousin of 'Hasta luego' CIAO
Cup of café TASSE
Days ___ (business chain) INNS
Desk item INBASKET
Did not stir SAT
Discern TELL
Ecological group BIOTA
English poet who wrote 'Lady Jane Grey' ROWE
Fast one, for short SST
Film director Hal ASHBY
French article UNE
French pal AMIE
Geococcyx californianus ROADRUNNER
Geometric sets LOCI
Go preceder BOARDWALK
Going ___ ATIT
Halves MOIETIES
Harper of 'Tender Mercies' TESS
Has the ingredients, with 'of' CONSISTS
Historian's interest LORE
Home Depot rival LOWES
Inscribed stone, maybe SLAB
Ireland's De Valera EAMON
Isaac Asimov, notably ATHEIST
It's received at a warehouse ORDER
Italian suffix ETTA
K-19, for one SUB
Kind of hall REC
Kind of mail HATE
Lead-in to 'Five Dollars' and 'Sixpence' in song titles IVEGOT
Like a couch potato INERT
Like default figures PRESET
Clues Answers
Long for, with 'to' ASPIRE
Lose ignominiously, in slang EATIT
Lucky, so to speak BLESSED
Magazine contents GUNS
Middle management title SECTIONHEAD
Misfortunes ILLS
Moo ___ pork SHU
More suitable for Robert Ripley ODDER
Morning glory aid TRELLIS
Musical comedy of 1947 ROADTORIO
Myrrh, for one RESIN
Nags SHREWS
Not be just warm BROIL
Not teetotalers USERS
Number of bulbs WATTS
Oft-quoted athlete YOGI
Old agricultural letters DDT
Old-fashioned 'Yippee!' HOORAH
Open SINCERE
Overmodest PRIGGISH
Part of a jet TAILSECTION
Part of a spur ROWEL
Pear type BOSC
Pelts HIDES
Perambulates TAKESAWALK
Person with answers SWAMI
Poor drainage area MOOR
Pounds THROBS
Publishers' hirees, for short EDS
Pull down EARN
Quickly ATONCE
Race of Norse gods AESIR
Rat-___ ATAT
Relatives of calories: Abbr. BTUS
Ritz, e.g., to Brits BISCUIT
River to the Elbe EGER
Rodeo sight BARREL
Roof style MANSARD
Sad sounds MOANS
Sap sucker APHID
Singer Lopez TRINI
Stiffen SET
Stravinsky ballet THEFIREBIRD
Structural piece TBAR
Suffix with magnet IZE
Taliban leader OMAR
Tea brand since 1892 SALADA
That, to an hombre ESO
The New York Nets were its last champs: Abbr. ABA
They played Ricky Nelson and Bobby Darin HIFIS
Three-toed bird RHEA
Ticked off SORE
Tolstoy heroine KARENINA
Tough HOOD
Trafalgar Square honoree NELSON
Trigger, e.g. PALOMINO
Turned state's evidence TALKED
TV exec's work SKED
Unbuilt RAZED
Vacationing ONATRIP
Washington or Phoenix ACTOR
Went out EBBED
William Cowper composition HYMN
Woman in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' ATALANTA
Word before and after 'over' END
Word repeated in a French Hamlet's soliloquy ETRE
Yearn (for) STARVE
Yielded BORE
___ polloi HOI
___-cone SNO