New York Times - Dec 29 2002

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Clues Answers
'A loaf of bread ...' poet OMAR
'Fiery' things, to Shakespeare ORBS
'I think, therefore I wrestle'? COGITOERGOSUMO
'Oops!' SORRY
'Peanuts' character LINUS
'So Much in Love' singers, 1963, with 'the' TYMES
25th anniversary cookie? SILVEROREO
3.0, e.g. GPA
Abridge, maybe EDIT
Actress Petrova, femme fatale of silents OLGA
Alitalia destination ROMA
And others, to Ovid ETALII
Answer to the folk riddle 'Big head, no hair' APIN
Area next to an ambulatory APSE
Asia's ___ Sea ARAL
Auto pioneer Karl BENZ
Beats it SCRAMS
Biblical ass? AARONBURRO
Bit of newspaper advertising INSERT
Box ENCASE
Boxing prize BELT
Bridal shop section TIARAS
Bull of ads ELMER
Bust DEMOTE
Bygone money PESETA
C2H6 ETHANE
Call at first SAFE
Calls the shots DIRECTS
Campaign topic ISSUE
Confucian principle TAO
County office ASSESSOR
Dander IRE
Dentist's jazz band? FINETOOTHCOMBO
Deposit SEDIMENT
Diarist Nin ANAIS
Dive in START
Doily shade ECRU
Doll-collecting gambler's two favorite things? BARBIEANDKENO
Drink on board GROG
Early asylum ARK
Earthquake's onset TREMOR
Embryonic instrument? GERMCELLO
English novelist Sillitoe and others ALANS
Enter via keyboard TYPEIN
Fancy fabric LAME
Filled to the brim SATED
First name in 1950's politics ADLAI
Former name of Tokyo EDO
Gate: Abbr. RCTS
Genesis son ENOS
Grant-___ INAID
Healing sign SCAB
Hit on Broadway BOFF
Hustle tickets SCALP
Intrepid FEARLESS
It holds the line REEL
Italian winemaker Carlo ROSSI
Jackets and collars ETONS
Jodie Foster film NELL
Key of Beethoven's 'Eroica' EFLAT
Kind of partner SPARRING
Like newlyweds, often TOASTED
Like tongues of fire FLAMY
Literary Ludwig EMIL
Litters BROODS
Liverpool's river MERSEY
Longfellow's bell town ATRI
Magical sound effect POOF
Many a cabbie TOOTER
Mason's makeover? BRICKREDO
Clues Answers
Math table entry ANTILOG
Mike who produced 'Around the World in 80 Days' TODD
Millstone ONUS
Mississippi River explorer DESOTO
Months ___ AGO
Mournful chime KNELL
Nabisco brand RITZ
Natural emollient ALOE
Normandy battle site STLO
Not orig. IMIT
Not sleeping ASTIR
Nut-case CRANK
Offering ALMS
Old Scottish county on the Clyde LANARK
Oscar word BEST
Overflow TEEM
Part of a 58-Across SLAT
Partial BIASED
Party offering SLATE
Picked-up item TAB
Pig feed SLOP
Pledge of Allegiance ender ALL
Port holders CASKS
Precious strings STRADS
Pub competition DARTS
Ragú rival PREGO
Rains in the movies CLAUDE
Ranch rope RIATA
Reins in CURBS
Renaissance ___ (old-fashioned festival) FAIRE
Reply to the Little Red Hen NOTI
Roll-call no-show AWOL
Rope's end, maybe NOOSE
Secures ATTAINS
See 44-Down EVIL
Set down ALIT
Sherpa sighting YETI
Ship timber MAST
Some cursing DAMNS
Songwriter Greenwich ELLIE
Spar, e.g. POLE
Strauss opera SALOME
Strip DISROBE
Student of Seneca NERO
Suffix with dump STER
Surmise INFER
Take marks off ERASE
Take off SOAR
Test material DNA
The Eagles' 'Take ___ the Limit' ITTO
This, in Taxco ESTO
Tiny amount GRAIN
Tip off WARN
Top-secret turmoil? CLASSIFIEDADO
Tops at the table OUTEATS
Transportation with rails SLED
Turn on a pivot SLUE
Two years in the House TERM
Unkempt, in a way MATTED
Van Gogh locale ARLES
Victim GOAT
Vocal passage ARIOSO
Votin' no AGIN
Way out there AFAR
Win going away ROMP
Witch's place ENDOR
With 97-Across, a proverbial monkey's advice SEENO
You get down from it EIDER
___ Holmes, 'From Here to Eternity' wife KAREN
___ J. Gaines, who wrote 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman' ERNEST