NY Times, Fri, May 24, 2002

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1. Wise ones : SMARTALECKS 12. Scared stiff, maybe : WHITEASASHEET 14. Bases of beliefs : FIRSTPRINCIPLES 16. Snobby : ELITIST 17. Having the best of hands : DEFTEST 18. Bugs bugger : ELMER 19. De ___ : FACTO 20. Lower : DEPRESS 23. Member of a cabal : PLOTTER 25. Old march organizer: Abbr. : SDS 26. Hot : SAHARAN 28. Grad. school class, maybe : SEM 29. First name in the Mideast : YASIR 30. Former French money: Abbr. : FRS 33. Early Ping-Pong score : THREEUP 35. Suffix with Caesar : EAN 38. Speaks one's mind : LETSRIP 40. Drive crazy : DERANGE 42. Bond : UNITE 43. Aunt in "Oklahoma!" : ELLER 44. Thankless one : INGRATE 47. Halftime players : PEPBAND 49. Group that's left? : DEMOCRATICPARTY 51. Busboy's responsibility : TABLESETTINGS 52. Concur : SEEEYETOEYE		1. Little guys : SHRIMPS 2. Mac : MISTER 3. Clothes : ATTIRES 4. Sells (for) : REPS 5. Like sour grapes : TART 6. "___ recall ..." : ASI 7. Subject of many disputes : LAND 8. Suffix with fluor- : ESCE 9. Light and frothy : CHIFFON 10. Persisted in : KEPTAT 11. Goes for : SELECTS 12. Devised, in a sense : WILLED 13. Proctor's charge : TESTEE 14. Sustains : FEEDS 15. 11, on the Beaufort scale : STORM 21. Introduce oneself : SAYHI 22. Quick : SHARP 23. Was meddlesome : PRIED 24. Movie cowboy with a horse named Rush : LARUE 27. "Peer Gynt" character : ASE 30. Not settled : FLUID 31. Milk curdler : RENNET 32. Bad marks : STIGMAS 33. Goo : TREACLE 34. One who hasn't gone public? : PREPPIE 35. Blow up : ENLARGE 36. Canvassers : AGENTS 37. Geeklike : NERDY 39. It won't go on for long : STROBE 41. Erie Canal terminus : ALBANY 45. Part of a windbreak, maybe : TREE 46. Trouble-free : EASY 47. Whig prime minister of Britain : PITT 48. Outer: Prefix : ECTO 50. Course requirement? : TEE