New York Times - Dec 22 2003

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Clues Answers
'Eureka!' AHA
'Good buddy' CBER
'Holy Toledo!' EGAD
'Sesame Street' Muppet ERNIE
'The Greatest Show on Earth' purveyors BARNUMANDBAILEY
Allow temporary use of LEND
Alternative to 'in a bottle' ONTAP
Aria flourishes CADENZAS
Azerbaijan's capital BAKU
Baglike structure SAC
Bar patron's request, with 'the' USUAL
Be a natural part INHERE
Black-and-white cookie OREO
Blue-ribbon position FIRST
Brontë's 'Jane ___' EYRE
Button material NACRE
Cast member ACTOR
Catcher's position HOMEBASE
Clearasil target ACNE
Close in on NEAR
Company with a crocodile logo IZOD
Corrects EMENDS
Cries from Homer Simpson DOHS
Dashed TORE
Disfigure MAR
Diving bird with a weird call LOON
Drives back REPELS
Dumbbells DODOS
Edward who popularized the limerick LEAR
Eminem's music RAP
Event attended by Cinderella BALL
Happy ___ lark ASA
High rank EMINENCE
Historical times ERAS
Kukla, ___ and Ollie FRAN
Late Sen. Thurmond STROM
Loving murmur COO
Mae West, for one BLONDE
Clues Answers
Multivitamin additive ZINC
Old bandleader Columbo RUSS
Olympic award MEDAL
Ore's locale LODE
Party-giver HOST
Pear variety BOSC
Pinball error TILT
Plumb crazy LOCO
Public persona IMAGE
Quilt part PATCH
Root beer order MUG
Rude person CHURL
Scale interval SEMITONE
Scene of dazzling goings-on THREERINGCIRCUS
Simplifies EASES
Sneezer's cry ACHOO
Social rebuff SNUB
Soft shade PASTEL
Song from Sondheim's 'A Little Night Music' SENDINTHECLOWNS
Sound repeated while marching HEP
Spaghetti sauce brand RAGU
Spain and Portugal IBERIA
Spanish cheer OLE
Start ONSET
Stream CREEK
Stubbed item TOE
Temperature extremes LOWS
Toledo's lake ERIE
Totally unexciting BLAH
True REAL
Vermont city BARRE
Vicinity AREA
W.W. II plane ___ Gay ENOLA
Walk aimlessly RAMBLE
Washington of Hollywood DENZEL
Yellow sub? OLEO
___ liquor MALT
___ roof GABLE