New York Times - Dec 23 2002

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'Bolero' composer RAVEL
'If you ___' (words of deference) SAYSO
'Life is hard ...' AHME
'Step aside, I'll do it' LETME
'Thin' coin DIME
Advance in years AGE
Author Roald DAHL
Auto CAR
Bird-related AVIAN
Bush's alma mater YALE
Carillon part BELL
Colored HUED
Come into view APPEAR
Cuba, e.g. ISLAND
Delinquent G.I. AWOL
Den LAIR
Differentiate VARY
Dove houses COTES
Drunken BEERY
Duke, earl, etc. PEERS
Elizabeth I was the last one TUDOR
Emergency situation CODERED
Englishman in colonial India SAHIB
Excellence QUALITY
Exploding star NOVA
File folder feature TAB
Filmmaker Woody ALLEN
Flat part of a chart line PLATEAU
Formally renounce ABJURE
Fuel additive STP
Game show host Pat SAJAK
Have ___ to one's head AGUN
Isn't solvent OWES
Joke JEST
Lad LITTLESHAVER
Language of Pakistan URDU
Like a lime SOUR
Like some gravy and mattresses LUMPY
Lock location HASP
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Lock opener KEY
Manipulative one USER
Maze runner LABRAT
Mideast's Gulf of ___ ADEN
Midleg KNEE
Modest people have small ones EGOS
Most Yugoslavs SERBS
Muckety-muck NABOB
Native Alaskan ALEUT
Nonsense CLAPTRAP
Occasions EVENTS
Opposing ANTI
Out of sight of shore ASEA
Pair DUAD
Polio vaccine developer SALK
Popular cookbook author JAMESBEARD
Possible result of 40-Down nonpayment REPO
Preceding day EVE
Present a case in court ARGUE
Red suit HEARTS
Remote control abbr. VOL
Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf ___' RAG
Signs, as a check ENDORSES
Somerset Maugham novel, with 'The' RAZORSEDGE
Spanish grocery BODEGA
Take a walk STROLL
Three, in cards TREY
Triplet plus one QUAD
Unexciting BLAH
What's harvested CROP
Where Pearl Harbor is OAHU
With mouth wide open AGAPE
Worked up ALLINALATHER
Your and my OUR
Zuider ___ ZEE
___ Alamos, N.M. LOS
___ Antony MARC
___ Maria liqueur TIA
___ Minor (constellation) URSA