New York Times - Dec 30 2002

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Clues Answers
'Halt!,' at sea AVAST
'I'm afraid not!' SORRYCHARLIE
'Stop right there!' WHOANELLY
'Ta-ta' SEEYA
'Tosca,' e.g. OPERA
'Uh-uh!' NOWAYJOSE
'Wise' bird OWL
'You could've knocked me over with a feather!' GEE
'You said it!' YESSIRREEBOB
1974 Tom T. Hall hit ILOVE
An almanac lists its highs and lows TIDE
Apple laptop IBOOK
Axis soldiers JERRIES
Ballfield cover TARP
Big hunk GOB
Bygone times ERAS
Byrd and Hatch, e.g.: Abbr. SENS
Cave dweller BAT
College period SESSION
Comedian's bit GAG
Conceal HIDE
Currier's partner in lithography IVES
Demonic EVIL
Dry-as-dust ARID
Eve's man ADAM
Everglades grass SEDGE
Gaming table stacks BETS
Gets better, as a wound HEALS
Grant-in-___ AID
HBO deliverer CABLE
Hollywood's DeVito or Glover DANNY
It goes in the hold CARGO
It's no mansion HOVEL
Ivan, for one CZAR
Knave ROGUE
Kung ___ shrimp PAO
Leave out OMIT
Leg shackles IRONS
Clues Answers
Lungful AIR
Madcap ANTIC
Mentor for Luke Skywalker YODA
Merchandise WARES
Mideast prince EMIR
Mobile home? ALABAMA
Mosaic piece TESSERA
Mother ___ (Nobel-winning nun) TERESA
Neighbor of Israel SYRIA
Notre Dame's Fighting ___ IRISH
Oceanographic charts SEAMAPS
Org. for the Nets and Nuggets NBA
Peaceful protest SITIN
Pepsi competitor RCCOLA
Performer with a painted-on smile CLOWN
Physicist Niels BOHR
Prepare, as tea STEEP
Roof's edge EAVE
Rope material HEMP
Royal residences PALACES
Seep (out) OOZE
September bloom ASTER
Sewing machine inventor Howe ELIAS
Ship's weight unit TON
Short flight HOP
Siesta sound SNORE
Sign of boredom YAWN
Smidgen IOTA
Snowlike WHITE
SSW's reverse NNE
St. ___ fire ELMOS
Stretchy, as a waistband ELASTIC
Sultan of ___ (Babe Ruth) SWAT
Tease RAGON
Tex-Mex snack TAMALE
Thickset STOCKY
Zagreb resident CROAT
___ Bator, Mongolia ULAN