New York Times - Mar 2 2003

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'As Time Goes By' choreographer THARP
'Cattle Queen of Montana,' e.g. OATER
'If I ___ guess ...' HADTO
'___ I a stinker?' ARENT
A-number-1 PRIMEMOVER
Act smitten SWOON
Actor Billy of 'Titanic' ZANE
Ancient Illyricum, today CROATIA
Applies LAYSON
Available for work ONCALL
Ballpark figs. ESTS
Basic cable channel TBS
Be off ERR
Blockheads LUGS
Boisterous laugh HAWHAW
Brand of designer bags PRADA
Bug out FLY
Cause of a smile, maybe PUN
Central MID
Certain graduate ALUMNA
Colombo product YOGURT
Command to a wayward child OBEY
Common Market inits. EEC
Court figures NOBLES
Daunts AWES
Dead waters STYX
Difficult LABORIOUS
Director Meyer RUSS
Discus thrower Oerter and others ALS
Dockworkers' org. ILA
Dog command SIC
Dyed-in-the-wool TOTAL
Edible clam QUAHOG
Eminem ___ Slim Shady AKA
Empty promises BUNK
Euripides play ORESTES
Exactly NOLESS
Exhaust DEPLETE
Father of Balder, the god of goodness ODIN
Fertilization site OVULE
First name in Mideast politics YASIR
Flying start? AERO
Forever's partner ADAY
Frank Sinatra's birthplace HOBOKEN
Futurist, of sorts SEER
Galileo's home PISA
Get-up COSTUME
Give heed HARKEN
Have roots RESIDE
HBO competitor TMC
Headline-screaming LURID
Heat up in a hurry NUKE
Informed about WISETO
Intimidates COWS
Italian numero TRE
Jazz (up) HOKE
Keen perception ACUITY
Knock about IDLE
Konica competitor AGFA
Lbs. and kgs. WTS
Lead ___-and-dog life (constantly quarrel) ACAT
Leader in ancient Rome REX
Like a good egg GRADEA
Like heroes, often FETED
Like some low-cost housing STATEAIDED
Made farm sounds MOOED
Make, as a CD BURN
NATO country capital ANKARA
Near mid-millennium year DII
Not stop until it's too late OVERDO
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Oceangoing inits. HMS
Old-fashioned adventure GESTE
Olympian hawk ARES
Online forum contents POSTS
Oppose BUCK
Oscar nominee for a song in 'The Lord of the Rings' ENYA
Paid the penalty ATONED
Paranoid's fear PLOT
Perform like 46-Across SKATE
Perfumed CENSED
Person on the scene: Abbr. DET
Physician MEDICO
Prefix with cellular UNI
Prefix with magnetic ISO
Preserve CAN
Progeny SEED
Ready PREP
Relinquish QUIT
Reveal, in poetry OPE
Right in the Forum DEXTER
Runs a stud farm, say BREEDS
San ___, Calif. MATEO
Scented soft soap GELEE
Secure MOOR
Señor ___ ('Casablanca' role) FERRARI
Sent up APED
Showing fatigue WAN
Singer Starr KAY
Smidgen TAD
Some punishers CANERS
Sponges BUMS
Stare (at) GAWK
Start of joke #1 WHYDIDTHECHICKENCROSS
Start of joke #2 WHATDOYOUCALLABLONDE
Start of joke #3 APRIESTARABBIANDAMONK
Start of joke #4 HOWMANYLAWYERSDOESIT
Start of joke #5 THREEGUYSWALKINTOABAR
Stocking cap, for example KNIT
Stories told in court ALIBIS
Storm heading: Abbr. ENE
Support when one shouldn't ABET
Supreme Court justice appointed by Reagan KENNEDY
Swallowed ATE
Tall order TASK
Team from the Hub SOX
They may be in the 90's OCTANES
They may be pulled TENDONS
Thin strips of wood LATHS
Thornfield Hall governess EYRE
Title role in a Cole Porter musical KATE
Tony winner Neuwirth BEBE
Top LID
Tortured HURT
Towel site ROD
Unstinting LAVISH
Unwanted look LEER
V.I.P.'s BIGS
V.I.P.'s following RETINUE
Wasn't straight LIED
Went bankrupt SANK
What a waiting time may seem EON
Whatever the case ATANYRATE
Where a submarine might be spotted DELI
Where jetsam may go ASTERN
Within: Prefix ENDO
___ Baiul, 1994 Winter Olympics gold medalist OKSANA
___ du jour PLAT
___ nut BRAZIL
___ power NTH
___ Rios, Jamaica OCHO