New York Times - Mar 9 1998

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Clues Answers
'Como ___ usted?' ESTA
'Falstaff' or 'Fidelio' OPERA
'___ Got a Secret' IVE
'___ Howdy Doody time!' ITS
9-Across solo ARIA
Acceleration SPEEDUP
Barbecue dish SPARERIBS
Barnyard perch ROOST
Bathtub detritus RING
Become narrower TAPER
Beehive State UTAH
Birchbark CANOE
Bird beaks NIBS
Bird on a beach TERN
Bit of gravel STONE
Boxcars, in dice SIXES
Bread spreads OLEOS
Cartoon caveman ALLEYOOP
Cosmetician Lauder ESTEE
Craggy peak TOR
Deep Throat, e.g., in the Watergate scandal SOURCE
Developments TRENDS
Egyptian boy king TUT
Enlivens, with 'up' PEPS
Fairy tale figure GNOME
Flat-bottomed boat SCOW
Garfield's canine pal ODIE
Gawk (at) STARE
Genetic initials RNA
Hangar contents AIRPLANES
Horace's '___ Poetica' ARS
Hornets' cousins WASPS
It ends Lent EASTER
Kill, as a dragon SLAY
Kind of foil TIN
Kind of timing SPLITSECOND
Lair DEN
Land of the leprechauns EIRE
Larry King employer CNN
Clues Answers
Lecture hall platforms PODIA
Load for Jack and Jill PAIL
Locate exactly PINPOINT
Loyal TRUE
Madcap ANTIC
Malden and Marx KARLS
Map within a map INSET
Muscle tics SPASMS
Nay canceler YEA
Nile snakes ASPS
NNW's opposite SSE
Nolan Ryan specialty STRIKEOUT
Not slack TAUT
One 'E' on a scoreboard ERROR
Open, as a bottle UNCAP
Pale purple MAUVE
Paleozoic and Mesozoic ERAS
Pub game SNOOKER
Puppy love CRUSH
Quoted (from) EXCERPTED
Rock's Fleetwood ___ MAC
Scores 72 on a 72 course PARS
Singer ___ King Cole NAT
Singer's refrain LALA
Skip the usual wedding preparations ELOPE
Slowdown LETUP
Smells ODORS
Son of Aphrodite EROS
Sow's opposite REAP
Street urchin GUTTERSNIPE.
Super G curve, in the Olympics ESS
Surfer's sobriquet DUDE
Take a chair SIT
The Buckeyes: Abbr. OSU
Tibetan ox YAK
Very, very thin SHEER
Weird EERIE
Without women STAG
Word before 'more' and 'merrier' THE