NY Times, Sun, May 09, 2004 MOVING THE BAR

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1. Best Western competitor : RAMADA 7. Ledger entry : DEBIT 12. Need a lift? : SAG 15. Bit of cheesecake : GAM 18. Metalware decoration : ENAMEL 19. Hair dressing : POMADE 20. New Deal inits. : TVA 21. Hurler's stat. : ERA 22. Clingy duchess? : SARANFERGUSON 24. New York's ___ School of Design : PARSONS 26. Place for booths: Abbr. : TPK 27. Slick : OILY 28. Double-crosser : SNAKE 30. Andrea ___ (lost passenger ship) : DORIA 31. Comment about a mixed public reaction? : SOMELIKEITNOT 35. Cutting, as a remark : EDGED 36. Like peas in ___ : APOD 38. Strong as ___ : ANOX 39. Wheel alignment : TOEIN 41. That, to a señorita : ESA 42. Summa cum ___ (top grads) : LAUDES 45. Family man, familiarly : GRAMP 48. Il or elle, in Paris : PRONOM 50. Some summer workers : INTERNS 52. "___ oui!" : MAIS 54. Agree : CONCUR 57. Plowing December roads, e.g.? : SNOWBUSINESS 62. Tea accompanier : SCONE 63. Some seasonal Florida residents : WINTERERS 66. Prohibitory words : DONOT 67. Start of a counting-out rhyme : EENIE 68. Pay stub? : OLA 69. Rewrites : EDITS 71. Gogol's "___ Bulba" : TARAS 73. N.L. East city : ATL 74. Bush solicitor general Theodore : OLSON 77. Fluid overload : EDEMA 79. Weight of a lorry's load, maybe : TENTONNES 82. Release : LETGO 83. Reception from a Roman emperor? : NEROSWELCOME 85. Fast-food restaurant equipment : FRYERS 87. ___-Rooter : ROTO 88. "Don Pasquale" role : ERNESTO 92. Annoy : PESTER 95. Levels : TIERS 98. Like some blows to the side of the head : MIDEAR 99. Pot-au-___ (French stew) : FEU 101. The King : ELVIS 103. Casual shirts : TEES 105. Moving picture? : BLUR 106. More advanced, in a way : OLDER 108. "Restrooms ahead"? : ASIGNOFRELIEF 113. See 115-Across : MEDIA 114. South America's Rio ___ : NEGRO 115. Modern locale of ancient 113-Across : IRAN 116. Cut through : SAW 119. Brought out : EVINCED 121. Most bookish student in western New York? : NERDOFBUFFALO 125. Pitcher Robb ___ : NEN 126. Bikini-to-Oahu dir. : ENE 127. They may be seen in cameos : ACTORS 128. Juice producer : REAMER 129. One of the "Star Trek" series, to fans : TNG 130. Bygone map inits. : SSR 131. "Camelot" composer : LOEWE 132. Seizure : ARREST		1. Pause : REST 2. Take ___ (snooze) : ANAP 3. Delineates : MARKSOUT 4. "I ___ Rock" : AMA 5. Luth. or Meth., e.g. : DENOM 6. 1966 Michael Caine title role : ALFIE 7. Frank : DOG 8. It runs Down Under : EMU 9. Lowest parts : BASSI 10. "___ care" : IDONT 11. Like some farmers : TENANT 12. Gatekeeper : STPETER 13. Actress Gardner : AVA 14. Flower smeller? : GARDENNOSE 15. Barbarian songwriter? : GEORGEMCONAN 16. ___ Army (links group) : ARNIES 17. Herod's fortress : MASADA 19. Intrusive : PRYING 23. First Lady of Jazz : ELLA 25. Groundskeeper's order : SOD 29. Surgeon general under Reagan : KOOP 32. Adjective in a "Ripley's" entry : ODDEST 33. Asian peninsula: Abbr. : KOR 34. They may be final or physical : EXAMS 36. Tomb of ___, in Najaf, Iraq : ALI 37. Go for the gold? : PAN 40. Quadrennial games org. : IOC 43. Eagle of the sea : ERNE 44. Possible reason for a poke in the ribs : SNORE 46. Domestic : MAID 47. ___ noir : PINOT 49. As soon as : ONCE 51. Alfred Nobel's birthplace : SWEDEN 53. Caesar's March 15 destination : SENATE 55. Bond : UNITE 56. Staggers : REELS 58. Wedding belle : BRIDE 59. Virgin Isl., e.g. : USTERR 60. Cartoonist Edward : SOREL 61. Candidate's declaration : STANCE 63. "The Voyage Out" novelist : WOOLF 64. Feeling worse : ILLER 65. Foul-tasting dessert? : NASTYPUDDING 70. ___-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 : SMOOT 72. Eye site : STORM 75. Arch with a point : OGEE 76. Viking competitions? : NORSERACES 78. Noted wine area : ASTI 80. It means everything : OMNI 81. As required, after "if" : NEEDBE 84. "___ the conquered!": Livy : WOETO 86. Lambert Airport locale: Abbr. : STL 89. Identical : SELFSAME 90. Cross shape : TAU 91. Goal-oriented guy : ORR 93. Holyfield of the ring : EVANDER 94. Hillock : RISE 96. Whistle blower, for short : REF 97. Font lines : SERIFS 99. Arouse : FOMENT 100. Big roll : ELEVEN 102. Pair of lamps, maybe : SIGNAL 104. Dweller on the Danube : SERB 107. Article in Die Welt : EIN 109. El ___ : GRECO 110. "El ___" (1983 film) : NORTE 111. Linney of "The Truman Show" : LAURA 112. Reason (from) : INFER 117. Yeasty brews : ALES 118. Herbaceous plant : WORT 120. Dash widths : ENS 122. Part of a business report, with "the" : DOW 123. Bank deposit : ORE 124. Word repeated before "away" : FAR