New York Times - Jun 13 2006

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Clues Answers
'Dies ___' IRAE
'Need You Tonight' group, 1987 INXS
'Picnic' playwright INGE
'The Grapes of Wrath' family name JOAD
'___ homo' ECCE
1952 Winter Olympics site OSLO
7 on the Mohs scale QUARTZ
Agree JIBE
Al Jazeera's home QATAR
Ancient Rome's ___ Way APPIAN
Animal with a pup SEAL
Appetizer or dessert COURSE
Big name in pet food PURINA
British big shot NOB
Burden ONUS
Bygone Italian money LIRE
Capital on the Missouri PIERRE
Cinematic pig BABE
City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABS BASRA
Commuters' line to N.Y.C. LIRR
Dock QUAY
Drink, as from a bottle SWIG
Eccentric, to put it nicely LOOPY
Eight furlongs MILE
Elevator brake inventor OTIS
Emanation ODOR
Emergency signal FLARE
Evil spirit IMP
Family insignia CREST
Finished OVER
Foot part ARCH
Frequency unit HERTZ
God to 1.2 billion ALLAH
Grammy winner James ETTA
Greetings before 'Pehea 'oe?' ('How are you?') ALOHAS
High-speed connection inits. DSL
Husband of a countess EARL
Iraqi or Nepali ASIAN
Jib or spinnaker SAIL
Clues Answers
Lagoon formation ATOLL
Letters of distress SOS
Lush TOPER
Means of enforcing tax compliance LIEN
Opposite of charge FLEE
Optimistic UPBEAT
Oregano and others SPICES
Org. that studies U.S. history DAR
Peers EQUALS
Place for valuables CHEST
Place to exchange vows ALTAR
Rafter #1 BUILDINGSUPPORT
Rafter #2 PATRICKOFTENNIS
Rafter #3 RIVERENTHUSIAST
Reaction to a friend's mistake WINCE
Read PERUSE
Ringlet CURL
Santa ___, Calif. CLARA
Scene of the ancient Pythian games DELPHI
Sites of roots SCALPS
Ski lift TBAR
Slog (through) PLOW
Slugger Sammy SOSA
Snaky shape ESS
Spats TIFFS
Speakers' platforms PODIA
Tardy LATE
Tasty SAPID
The fill in 'fill 'er up!' GAS
This-and-that dish STEW
Tie-up SNARL
Title in old India SAHIB
Toast SKOAL
Tony winner Tom CONTI
Trucker's perch CAB
TV watcher's vantage point SOFA
W.W. II foe AXIS
Word from a klutz OOPS
___ colada PINA