New York Times - Aug 22 1999

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Clues Answers
#2 Bill Withers hit of 1972 USEME
'...___ You Ain't My Baby?' (1944 hit) ORIS
'Civilization' director Thomas INCE
'Do ___!' TELL
'Hi and Lois' family pet DAWG
'Prima Ballerina' artist DEGAS
'The Breakfast of Charlatans'? TRICKSCEREAL
'We're constantly attacked' and 'the stockades are rotting'? FORTKNOCKS
1980's Sandinista leader ORTEGA
A-mazing animals LABRATS
About 1% of the atmosphere ARGON
Acetylacetone form ENOL
Advance amount ANTE
Affixable, in a way IRONON
Atlas Mountains locale ALGERIA
Be near bankruptcy AIL
Beat in yardage OUTRUSH
Betel nut tree ARECA
Big paperback publisher BERKLEY
Blows to the head? EARWHACKS
Bombs FIASCOS
Brimless bonnet TOQUE
Cardsharp's technique? THUMBINDECKS
Catch HOOK
Centimeter-gram-second unit ERG
Certain chord TRIAD
Certain gene ALLELE
Charades, basically GESTURES
Chester Arthur's middle name ALAN
Chucks HURLS
Color wheel display TONES
Come into one's own EMERGE
Common mixer SODA
Compass heading SSE
Confined to one part of the body LOCAL
Contracts GETS
Convex molding OVOLO
Covered with many small figures, in heraldry SEME
Cow, maybe AWE
Director's option RECUT
Dog treat BISCUIT
Driving problem GLARE
Early 70's sitcom ARNIE
Fancy home VILLA
Favorite one IDOL
Fleece BILK
Fleshy fruit POME
Food that may be folded OMELET
Furniture material CEDAR
Fuss TODO
Game resembling pinball PACHINKO
Get-up-and-go BRIO
Ghoul OGRE
Gloomy DOUR
Having less shading STARKER
Headline about the Rolling Stones' leader's recovery? MICKSWELL
Here, but not here ICI
Hill of law ANITA
Hit the big time ARRIVE
Hot time: Abbr. AUG
How some things strike HOME
Huge VAST
Hungry look OGLE
Incubator activity HATCHING
Influence PULL
It involves many sharp turns POLKA
It may be laid on thick STUCCO
It may reflect well on you SHEEN
It's said with a wave of the hand SHOO
Italian duchess Beatrice d'___ ESTE
Clues Answers
Janis's comic strip mate ARLO
Kind of thermometer ORAL
Kind of twist REVERSE
Kitchen tool SLICER
Kitty NESTEGG
Lace site BODICE
Language with mostly monosyllabic words THAI
Lean (on) RELY
Library material FICHE
Like many gardens RAKED
Like some stocks NOPAR
Like the oceans AQUEOUS
Lister's abbr. ETC
Locks HAIR
Logo EMBLEM
Make permanent ETCH
Marvel Comics superhero THOR
Memory RECALL
Most clever KEENEST
Mother ___ TERESA
Neighbor of Mont. ALTA
Nixon policy DETENTE
Noted work? SONG
Old railroad name ERIE
One more than sieben ACHT
One taking orders WAITER
Order at the George & Dragon ALE
Org. with many rules OSHA
Palm used for basketry NIPA
Part of the eye UVEA
Pavarotti's football feats? TENORSACKS
Pell-___ MELL
Philistine BOOR
Pop star Morissette ALANIS
Previously ERENOW
Punishment unit LASH
Purcell's '___ and Welcome Songs' ODES
Red or black, e.g. BET
Sea bordering Kazakhstan ARAL
Serving of 52-Across TANKARD
Shantytown composition HOVELS
She found success with Caesar COCA
Silent votes NODS
Simple MERE
Sit up for AWAIT
Small peg TEE
Soft drinks revealed? COKESOUTOFHIDING
Some Brahms works TRIOS
Source of a bugle call ELK
Spheres REALMS
Stage presentation SKIT
Synagogue chests ARKS
Teen party RAVE
The Depression and others ERAS
They probably don't think much of you EGOISTS
Tomato variety ROMA
Towering desert plants: Var. SAHUAROS
Tree trunk bulge KNAR
U-shaped instrument LYRE
Ungodliness EVIL
Université preceder LYCEE
Using tape on a bulletin board? WITHHOLDINGTACKS
View electronically SCAN
Viva ___ VOCE
Wallace cohort SAFER
Way out DOOR
What Mr. Brown can do, in a Dr. Seuss title MOO
What thunder may do DEAFEN
Woman from Bethlehem NAOMI
Wrapped up CLAD