New York Times - Jul 17 1999

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'Lady Sings the Blues' star ROSS
'The Aldrich Family' catchphrase, of old radio COMINGMOTHER
Acid user ETCHER
After ALA
Al Green's '___-La-La' SHA
Algonquian tribe member MIAMI
Announcer Hall EDD
Auto pioneer Citroën ANDRE
Biblical plot EDEN
Big name in fertilizer ORTHO
Bigoted ILLIBERAL
Bygone time DAYSOFYORE
Celestial equator supergiant BETELGEUSE
Change places MIGRATE
Closeness IMMEDIACY
Dark time for poets EEN
First black N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer ___ Tunnell EMLEN
Gallbladder's shape PEAR
Goal of some drives PLEDGES
Gumbo flavorer THYME
Handled glasses LORGNETTE
Handy performer? MIME
Having good placement SEEDED
His '4' was retired OTT
It comes before the season TIS
It may be boring BIT
It'll never get off the ground EMU
It's played on base BUGLE
Kind of comb RATTAIL
Lacks the wherewithal CANNOT
Lay by AMASS
Like a good guard ALERT
Loo label GENTS
Master of photography: Abbr. NEG.
Narwhal SEAUNICORN.
Clues Answers
New York's 'pen' station RIKERSISLAND
Northern homes: Var. IGLUS
Not well-groomed MESSY
Of the same biological group CONGENERIC.
One of a pack, perhaps LIE
One way to gaze ADORINGLY
Pagoda locale HANOI
Partygoers DEBS
Rapid river thaw ICERUN
Regatta racer SCULL
Reproduction needs OVA
Resting on a track, as a sliding door UNDERHUNG
Sandpapery ROUGH
Sayers's Bunter, e.g. VALET
Shot putter? SYRINGE
Smoke CIG
Smooth and white ALABASTER
Sonja Henie's birthplace OSLO
Sorry PITIFUL
Speaker in the field TRIS
Start of an 'Oliver!' song title OOM
Surgeon's hook TENACULUM
Sweet drink MEAD
They have seats INS
They're not refined ORES
Tried to get a seat RAN
Truncation abbreviation ETC
Valence of sodium PLUSONE
Weight ONUS
Well-groomed TRIM
Whistler, at times TEAKETTLE
Whitman work ELEGY
Zaire's Mobutu ___ Seko SESE
___ Animas, Colo. LAS
___-Aztecan UTO