NY Times, Sat, Oct 07, 2000

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1. Pretenses : FACADES 8. Bit of hunting gear : GAMEBAG 15. 1983 Jean Shepherd film memoir : ACHRISTMASSTORY 17. Popular Civil War song : TRAMPTRAMPTRAMP 18. Vanity plate in a two-car household : HERS 19. Wonderland cake message : EATME 20. Stumbles : ERRS 21. Suffix with ether : EAL 22. Touch up : RESTORE 24. Vox ___ : DEI 25. Meeting convoked by an ancient king : AGORA 27. Committee member, maybe: Abbr. : SEN 28. A letter provides one : LEASE 30. Couldn't stand : DETESTED 32. Bluffs : FEINTS 33. Criminal subduer : TASER 34. Tore : RACED 35. One with an eye for fine clothing? : NEEDLE 37. Industrial category : TEXTILES 40. "Tiny Alice" dramatist : ALBEE 41. Problem in historical records : GAP 42. All-night bar? : ROOST 43. Fruits de ___ (menu heading) : MER 44. Paella accompaniment : SANGRIA 47. Brit. military decoration : DSO 48. Reassuring response : IMOK 50. Propose as an explanation : POSIT 51. Time, for wine : AGER 52. World leader who wrote a novel, "The Cardinal's Mistress" : BENITOMUSSOLINI 55. Reciprocal relationship : INTERDEPENDENCE 56. Dieted : ATELESS 57. Shot measures? : DOSAGES		1. Ninny : FATHEAD 2. Ranch land : ACREAGE 3. Writer whose first book, 1846, sold only two copies : CHARLOTTEBRONTE 4. "There is little reason in ___": Virgil : ARMS 5. Dance move : DIP 6. First name in cosmetics : ESTEE 7. "Casablanca" villain : STRASSER 8. Smoked ham : GAMMON 9. In accordance with : ASPER 10. Colo. clock setting : MST 11. Word repeated in a French Hamlet's soliloquy : ETRE 12. What country inns provide : BOARDANDLODGING 13. It may be worn in a chair : ARMREST 14. Chorus dancers : GYPSIES 16. Ready to frame : MATTED 22. Gets down 'n' dirty : RASSLES 23. Euripides drama : ELECTRA 26. Aptly named English novelist : READE 29. Letters on a farm? : EIEIO 31. Certain intersection : TEE 32. Kind of number : FAX 34. Did again : REPRISED 35. U.N. member since 1990 : NAMIBIA 36. Natural setting : ELEMENT 37. Returns to base : TAGSUP 38. Perfume : ESSENCE 39. Levels : STORIES 41. Treasure guarders : GNOMES 45. Footless amphibians : APODS 46. "___ big deal" : ITSNO 49. German city with a harbor : KIEL 51. Epithet of Athena : ALEA 53. Italian TV channel : TRE 54. Some E.M.T. cases : ODS