New York Times - Dec 21 1997

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Clues Answers
'Beggars can't be choosers' et al. ADAGES
'Casablanca' producer WALLIS
'Caught' star Maria Conchita ___ ALONSO
'Caught' star Maria Conchita ___ ALONSO.
'How now! ___?': Hamlet ARAT
'I Know' singer Farris DIONNE
'I Know' singer Farris DIONNE.
'I'd rather not hear about it!' SPAREME
'Naughty!' TSK
'Olympia' painter MANET
1962 Tommy Roe hit SHEILA
A Dumas PERE
Affirm under oath SWEARTO
All there SANE
Attribute IMPUTE
Babydoll SUGAR
Biol., geol., etc. SCIS
Blue Eagle inits. NRA
Bon Ami alternative AJAX
Boston Symphony conductor OZAWA
Broken TAMED
Bugs bugs him ELMER
Bygone delivery person ICEMAN
Caesar's wings ALAE
Certain rating NIELSEN
Cheese made of 52-Across's milk ROMANO
Christian Science founder EDDY
Christian ___ ERA
Christmas tree hangings CANES
Classify ASSORT
Clytemnestra's killer ORESTES
Cockney residence OME
Cries of surprise OHOS
Crimson Tide, for short BAMA
Cuts into ERODES
Designer in J.F.K.'s White House CASSINI
Desktop publisher's supply FONTS
Discompose PERTURB
Dolly, for one EWE
Dona ___ (Las Cruces' county) ANA
Draft SWIG
End of the verse THEYVEBEGUNTOCLONEHIM
Even one ANY
Every, in prescriptions OMN
Extra ADDON
Filippo Lippi's title FRA
Finger, so to speak NAME
First South Korean president RHEE
French Revolution leader MARAT
Friend of Aramis ATHOS
From Umbria: Abbr. ITAL
Galley feature TIER
Go with the flow ADAPT
Good name for a chef? STU
Hampton Court feature MAZE
Hard to hold EELY
Hardly a sissy HEMAN
Harness part HAME
Helga's husband HAGAR
It may be toxic WASTE
Its capital is Altdorf URI
Jelly Roll Morton biographer Alan LOMAX
K-6: Abbr. ELEM
Kind of warden GAME
Kind of wave SINE
Lao-___ TSE
Lively, to Liszt ANIMATO
Locale of Ptolemy's lighthouse PHAROS
Lust after WANT
Make an antimacassar TAT
Making no progress INARUT
Clues Answers
Malodorous RANK
Marilu of 'Taxi' HENNER
Mayberry's Goober PYLE
Mesquite or mimosa, e.g. LEGUME
Meteorological effects AURORAS
More odious NASTIER.
More odious NASTIER
Muezzin's call to prayer AZAN
Mug KISSER
Muscateers? OMANIS
Name of two ancient Egyptian kings PEPI
Napoleon relative TART
Nervous, with 'up' KEYED
Netanyahu's predecessor PERES
Nice touch CARESS
Not-so-mild oath DAMN
O.K. ASSENT
Obvious clue SIGNPOST
One of Knute's successors ARA
Panache ELAN
Patch up REPAIR
Person in a booth SELLER
Plum pudding ingredient SUET
Plunk PUT
Princess Yasmin ___ Khan AGA
Ragwort variety TANSY
Refuse LITTER
Richard Leakey's birthplace NAIROBI
Ring thing GEMSTONE
RR stop STN
Rubs the wrong way IRKS
Sailplanes SOARS
See 72-Down MAINE
Set back? SCENERY
Shakespearean verb ending EST
Shanxi shrine PAGODA
Social climber's concern STATUS
Socked away SAVED
Source of the Truckee River TAHOE
Sprung up ARISEN
St. Pierre and Miquelon ILES
Stag ALONE
Stalin's persecuted peasant KULAK
Starbuck's captain AHAB
Start of a verse IMEETSANTAMOREANDMORE
Sticks in the mud MIRES
Strange 'gift' ESP
Stravinsky ballet AGON
Take under one's wing NURTURE
Testify under oath DEPONE
The Magi, notably ADORERS
The Untouchables, e.g. TMEN
They may be modified NOUNS
They may have soft shells TACOS
They're nonreturnable ACES
Thin WATERY
Thou squared MIL
Toledo-to-Akron dir. ESE
Toothpaste-approving grp. ADA
Tot's transport GOCART
Unnerve FAZE
Verse, part 2 MANYSTORESENTHRONEHIM
Verse, part 3 SOMEONEMUSTBEJOKINGOR
W.W. II arena ETO
W.W. II tyrant FUHRER
West of Hollywood MAE
With 40-Down, Down East university town ORONO
Work around AVOID
___ Trail (Everglades highway) TAMIAMI
___-garde AVANT