New York Times - Sep 13 2002

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'The Mask of Dimitrios' star, 1944 PETERLORRE
'Well, what ___?!' OFIT
007 foe DRNO
Adams of Sinn Fein GERRY
Aug. setting in K.C. CDT
Avoid summer school PASS
Boosters, for short AMPS
Breaks down TAKESAPART
Brooks of little consequence RILLETS
Bush, in the 80's VEEP
Camping enthusiasts TENTERS
Certain 'edge' STP
Characteristic of desert vegetation SPARSENESS
Chicken WIMP
Chitchat GAB
Control post HELM
Does the honors, so to speak CARVES
Fan AFICIONADO
Fictional orphan EYRE
Flat, in ads APT
Garden center purchase FERTILIZER
Green shade PEA
Gulf port ADEN
Hardly hardy TENDER
Head CRISIS
Inn HOSTELRY
It's somewhat less than a pound EURO
John ___, the Lone Ranger REID
Lift (up) PERK
Like Bel Paese cheese SEMISOFT
Like the top medalists at the 2000 Olympics: Abbr. AMER
Literature Nobelist Gordimer NADINE
Make available in advance PREPROVIDE
Meeting that's both business and pleasure POWERLUNCH
Need to keep up with the Joneses ENVY
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Novelist once captured by cannibals MELVILLE
Offstage aides CUERS
Old French coin ECU
Ontario natives CREES
Pad owner NASA
Password OPENSESAME
Periodic table developer MENDELEYEV
Poet translated by Ciardi DANTE
Puppet of children's TV BERT
Put up the cash PAID
Recycling material SCRAPMETAL
Render defenseless UNARM
Rick in flicks MORANIS
Robin Goodfellow, e.g. SPRITE
Sample SIP
Scurried HIED
Skirts EVADES
Small change CENTS
Some radio productions SIMULCASTS
South American monkey TITI
Specifics TERMS
Sporty Studebaker AVANTI
Squalid SEAMY
Staff CANE
Stage org. ANTA
Starring role for Julie Christie, 1965 LARA
Stresses, perhaps REITERATES
Supermarket department MEATS
They're given at birth PRENAMES
They're in the pool GENES
Time on end EON
Unit of luminous intensity CANDELA
Where it's at LOCALE
Where Samson died GAZA
___-majeste LESE