New York Times - Jan 18 2004

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Clues Answers
'Beg pardon ...' AHEM
'Don't look ___!' ATME
'For sure?' REALLY
'Mule Train' singer, 1949 LAINE
'Our Gang' girl DARLA
'Sex and the City' shower HBO
'Strangers and Brothers' novelist CPSNOW
'The possession of fools': Herodotus PRIDE
1958 #1 song VOLARE
1960's White House pooch HER
1971 hit movie based on the novel 'Ratman's Notebooks' WILLARD
42-Down, to Pierre COQ
Advantage in hockey HOMEICE
Alluvia SILTS
Alpaca and cashmere WOOLS
Ample shoe width EEE
Artist Chagall MARC
Atelier item CANVAS
Aware of ONTO
Bared UNVEILED
Baseball honcho SELIG
Benjamin Disraeli, e.g. EARL
Bit of effrontery LIP
BMW rival AUDI
Bounces AXES
Bowl figure GRIDDER
Brings together CONVENES
Bronte heroine EYRE
By surprise SUDDENLY
Chanticleer ROOSTER
Chichi ARTY
Chisholm Trail stop ABILENE
Clarinet paraphernalia REEDS
Common classroom sight GLOBE
Convenient apartment ONEA
Cordelia's father LEAR
Did yard work MOWED
Din ROAR
Drew aimlessly DOODLED
Dumped DITCHED
Duty TARIFF
End-of-sentence abbr. ETC
Endorser, sometimes ATHLETE
Eric Clapton's 'Layla' alias DEREK
Experimental attire? LABCOAT
Fabricated MADE
Fair attraction RIDE
Fictional terrier ASTA
Fit ABLE
Flea market find CURIO
Fleet SWIFT
Gershon of film GINA
Give a hint LETON
Good for a doctoral student, bad for a crime suspect THIRDDEGREE
Good for a magazine writer, bad for a couch potato CENTERSPREAD
Good for a mail carrier, bad for an electrician SHORTCIRCUIT
Good for a returning traveler, bad for a bridge player NOTHINGTODECLARE
Good for a scientist, bad for a roofer BREAKTHROUGH
Good for a wage earner, bad for a tightrope walker OVERCOMPENSATION
Good for a wish maker, bad for a Hollywood agent FALLINGSTAR
Good for an attorney, bad for a Spandex model BRIEFOUTLINE
Gray wolf LOBO
Halls of learning ACADEME
Hoard TROVE
I or II N.T. book COR
Ipanema locale RIO
It's done in the form of an S or a Z MINUET
Jinx in reverse CHARM
Joint MUTUAL
Kind of line CHORUS
Clues Answers
Lander at Ben Gurion ELAL
Less-than-Ruthian hits BLOOPS
Like almonds in many recipes SLIVERED
Like lions MANED
Like some colors FLYING
Many a roast LAMB
Mark for life SCAR
Medical tool FORCEPS
Monk's garb COWL
Music from the Miracles, e.g. SOUL
Mysterious ARCANE
N.Y.S.E. debut IPO
News source WIRE
Nixon's law alma mater DUKE
Not give ___ (not care) ARIP
Org. for 1- and 101-Across ACC
Plantain lily HOSTA
Porfirio ___, president of Mexico, 1884-1911 DIAZ
Port on a gulf of the same name ADEN
Prayer start LORD
Pre-Bill Hillary RODHAM
Prof.'s helpers TAS
Protomatter of the universe YLEM
Quick-witted ADROIT
Reins in CURBS
Rock singer in social causes BONO
Ruckus BROUHAHA
Salon devices DRIERS
Scraps ORTS
Seized vehicle REPO
Separator SIEVE
Sets up ERECTS
Shadow TAIL
Shale extract OIL
Show protectiveness HOVER
Singer's filler LAS
Small amounts DRIBS
Snacks for Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road APPLES
Social reformer Jacob RIIS
Some beans LIMAS
Some party members, for short DEMOS
Some Web site owners: Abbr. ORGS
Sonnet component COUPLET
Soup or sandwich ingredient CLAM
Spinnaker SAIL
Sporty car feature TTOP
Staff leader CLEF
Stay (with) KEEPPACE
Suffix on era names ZOIC
Symbol on an old quarter LIBERTY
Tame brew DECAF
Tantrum thrower, maybe DIVA
Target PREY
Temporarily out of the office ATLUNCH
They're often heaved SIGHS
Things laid by a gallina OVA
Thos. Jefferson's school UVA
Toiletry COLOGNE
Tree in a Christmas carol PEAR
Tsk about DEPLORE
Turns over CEDES
Venom source ASP
Verve BRIO
Ward of 'Once and Again' SELA
Ways: Abbr. RTES
Well in hand SEWNUP
Wheel maker FERRIS
Whistler's tune? DIXIE
Withdraw QUIT
Wrangles SPARS