New York Times - Dec 13 2004

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Clues Answers
'Can ___ true?' ITBE
'Saturday Night Fever' group, with 'the' BEEGEES
'Spare' item at a barbecue RIB
'Where the deer and the antelope play' RANGE
'___ out!' (ump's call) YER
'___ you there?' ARE
Actress Hagen UTA
Apartments FLATS
Archer of myth EROS
Arizona city MESA
Beverage with a marshmallow COCOA
Break a Commandment SIN
Car from Japan ACURA
Close tightly SEALUP
Confuse ADDLE
Decrease gradually WANE
Decree EDICT
Delay leaving TARRY
Detest HATE
Dismal, in poetry DREAR
Drug buster, for short NARC
Earl of ___, favorite of Queen Elizabeth I ESSEX
Erase DELETE
Family rooms DENS
Flightless Australian bird EMU
Flulike symptoms AGUE
Foam FROTH
Followed smoothly SEGUED
Gap and Toys 'R' Us, e.g. STORES
Grassy Argentine plains PAMPAS
Group voting the same way BLOC
Group with the rock opera 'Tommy,' with 'the' WHO
Howard of 'Happy Days' RON
Ice cream concoctions SODAS
It may be carried with a guitar TUNE
Jets or Sharks, in 'West Side Story' GANG
Judge Lance of the O. J. Simpson case ITO
Kind of jacket NEHRU
Clues Answers
Kuwaiti leader EMIR
Land unit ACRE
Make lovable ENDEAR
Mine finds ORES
Mishmash OLIO
Natural to a creature INBRED
Neat as ___ APIN
Not an exact fig. EST
Not just anger OUTRAGE
Opposite of everyone NOBODY
Owned HAD
Palm starch SAGO
Parking ticket issuer METERMAID
Pitching stats, for short ERAS
Pledges' group, for short FRAT
Present and future TENSES
Pro ___ (proportionally) RATA
Reason to put a clothespin on your nose ODOR
River to the underworld STYX
Rocker David Lee ___ ROTH
Same old same old RUT
Scoundrel ROGUE
Shoot (by) WHIZ
Slate AGENDA
Snakelike fish EEL
Some evergreens FIRS
Stow cargo LADE
Sup EAT
Supercharged engine TURBO
Telescope user STARGAZER
That certain something ALLURE
Unexpectedly OUTOFTHEBLUE
Unexpectedly WITHNOWARNING
Unexpectedly ALLOFASUDDEN
Verb not in the king's English AINT
Violent troublemaker RIOTER
Waste conduit SEWER
___ Ness monster LOCH