New York Times - Jul 18 2004

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'Dallas' matriarch ELLIE
'Good one!' NICE
'Oops!' OHOH
'The washday miracle' sloganeer, once TIDE
'We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly 'd' speaker IAGO
'___ quote ...' ANDI
Abrogate REPEAL
Actor Tognazzi of 1978's 'La Cage aux Folles' UGO
Adroit DEFT
Affectionate, slangily KISSY
All-purpose ambiguous job recommendation WASTENOTIMECALLINGHIM
Ancient region bordering the Aegean IONIA
Barn locks? MANE
Bop CONK
Brilliance LUSTER
Brought out EDUCED
Buffet warmer STERNO
Certain navel INNIE
Chinese 'way' TAO
CNN's Dobbs LOU
Collar attachment LEASH
Computer key TAB
Computer network menaces WORMS
Curve shape ESS
Dad's bro UNC
Dairy pitcher? ELSIE
Dark area UMBRA
Decorative needle case ETUI
Dirty UNCLEAN
Double star in Orion RIGEL
Early sixth-century date DII
Egg OVUM
Emphatic yes IDOIDO
Empty, as an apartment UNLET
Expresses disapproval TSKS
Extinguish DOUSE
Fair-hiring letters EEO
Family of five, say CARLOAD
Family-friendly card game UNO
Fed. money overseer OMB
Fell HEW
Fix permanently CEMENT
Flimflam CONJOB
Gambit TACTIC
Gin flavoring SLOE
Gives the nod OKS
Goes out DIES
Good-hearted soul SAINT
Greedy cry MINE
Having eight pins, as an electrical connection OCTAL
He declined the 1964 Literature Nobel SARTRE
Heir, in legal terminology ALIENEE
Incentivize SPUR
It's surrounded by eau ILE
Key preposition OER
Keys who won five Grammys for her debut album ALICIA
Kind of day BADHAIR
Leaf feature LOBE
Least MEREST
Lets go FREES
Letters at sea HMS
Like some ears TIN
Like some patio furniture TEAK
Lives RESIDES
Manhattan sch. NYU
Marks in Spanish class TILDES
Mayo, por ejemplo MES
Memo opener INRE
Mercury, for one ELEMENT
Minolta digital camera DIMAGE
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Miserable LOUSY
Moisturizing lotion GELEE
Moor HEATH
MSN competitor AOL
Muck GOO
N.Y.C. cultural attraction MOMA
Nonunion employees: Abbr. MGRS
Not inclined AVERSE
Not-so-straight shooter? USER
Notorious Amin IDI
Novelist Fannie HURST
Opposite of get-up-and-go ENNUI
Orbit, for example GUM
Passing concerns?: Abbr. TDS
Photo lab abbr. ENL
Plural suffix IES
Polite denial NOSIR
Ponder WEIGH
Power in old movies TYRONE
Raccoon relative COATI
Radiate EXUDE
Really big OBESE
Recommendation for a chronically absent employee? FINDINGHIMWASPURELUCK
Recommendation for a dishonest employee? HESUNBELIEVABLEATWORK
Recommendation for an employee guilty of sexual harassment? WEWEREALLTOUCHEDBYHIM
Recommendation for an employee who stole petty cash? HETOOKCHANGESERIOUSLY
Recommendation for an employee who was chronically drunk? HISSKILLISBEINGWASTED
Record label inits. EMI
Records LOGS
Responded to a cattle call MOOED
Robes may touch them ANKLES
Saloon floozie, slangily BGIRL
Santa ___ winds ANA
Saskatoon-to-Winnipeg dir. ESE
Set upon ASSAULTED
Settled ALIT
Sham FAKE
Short row TIFF
Showy flower ANEMONE
Silences HUSHES
Smooth over PAVE
Solo GOITALONE
Some low-risk investments, briefly TBONDS
Some lunch orders BLTS
Some Windows systems NTS
Son of Seth ENOS
Soup choice LENTIL
Specialty shoe width EEE
Spicy cuisine HUNAN
Spiral-horned antelope ELAND
Spirit WRAITH
Start fishing CAST
Stately stand ELMS
Storage problem MILDEW
Surrealist Max ERNST
Targets of baking soda ODORS
Tee off IRK
Thai currency BAHT
The Cradle of Texas Liberty ALAMO
The way things stand now ASITIS
Top 5 song by Sarah McLachlan ADIA
Tram loads ORES
Trawling gear FISHNET
Treasonous Aldrich AMES
Two-time U.S. Open champ ELS
Volkswagen model JETTA
Wallop BELT
Went from bank to bank? SWAM
White or Red follower SOX
___ mind OFA