New York Times Bonus Answers - Thursday, 1st February 2001 There are 42 across clues and 43 down clues for the New York Times Bonus crossword on Thursday, 1st February 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All New York Times Bonus AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Gladys Knight's backup groupPIPSAAcross 5: O'Brien of late-night TVCONANAAcross 10: Icky stuffMUCKAAcross 14: Rapper who starred in "New Jack City"ICETAAcross 15: "The __ Lesson" (Pulitzer-winning play by August Wilson)PIANOAAcross 16: Tennis great ArthurASHEAAcross 17: Gift-bearing trioMAGIAAcross 18: Set straightALIGNAAcross 19: Wine bottle datumYEARAAcross 20: "You can't teach __ ..."ANOLDAAcross 22: Boxing great Sugar RayLEONARDAAcross 24: Puff, to a hippieTOKEAAcross 27: Baton Rouge sch.LSUAAcross 28: Inquisitive interjectionsEHSAAcross 31: 1960 track gold medalist RudolphWILMAAAcross 33: 2001 Hall of Fame electee WinfieldDAVEAAcross 37: Gradually slower, in mus.RIT.AAcross 37: Gradually slower, in mus.RITAAcross 38: Perry and Della's creatorERLEAAcross 39: Voters pull themLEVERSAAcross 41: Former heavyweight champ "__" Mike TysonIRONAAcross 43: Count of big band fameBASIEAAcross 45: "God Sends Sunday" novelist __ BontempsARNAAAcross 46: Alexa, the first black woman neurosurgeon in the U.S.CANADYAAcross 48: Shooting marblesTAWSAAcross 50: Fats Waller's "It's a __ to Tell a Lie"SINAAcross 51: Luncheonette listMENUAAcross 52: Native of southern India or northern Sri LankaTAMILAAcross 53: "A mouse!"EEKAAcross 54: The __-i-noor diamondKOHAAcross 56: Right away, on a memoASAPAAcross 58: Paul of "Show Boat"ROBESONAAcross 62: Basketball great JohnsonMAGICAAcross 66: Roy Innis's org.COREAAcross 67: Imamu __ Baraka (LeRoi Jones)AMIRIAAcross 70: Hindu princessRANIAAcross 71: Like Ogden Nash's lamaONELAAcross 72: Black history scholar Henry Louis __GATESAAcross 73: "I have a dream" speakerKINGAAcross 74: Place for a cooling pieSILLAAcross 75: Slalom shapesESSESAAcross 76: Fr. holy womenSTESDDown 1: Arizona IndianPIMADDown 2: "Yes __" (Sammy Davis Jr. bio)ICANDDown 3: "__ My Heart" (old standard)PEGODDown 4: Basketball legend Wilt "The __" ChamberlainSTILTDDown 5: Apr. workhorseCPADDown 6: Gas station supplyOILDDown 7: Catch, slangilyNAILDDown 8: Tina Turner portrayer BassettANGELADDown 9: They're tabooNONOSDDown 10: "And Still I Rise" poet AngelouMAYADDown 11: Exploitative sortUSERDDown 12: Scrap in 2000 election newsCHADDDown 13: Prefix with plunk or plopKERDDown 21: "When __ eat?"DOWEDDown 23: In one's birthday suitNUDEDDown 25: 2001 Hall of Fame electee PuckettKIRBYDDown 26: Fitzgerald of jazzELLADDown 28: Grid great DickersonERICDDown 29: Revels, the first black U.S. senatorHIRAMDDown 30: Rock star SlySTONEDDown 32: Socialite PerleMESTADDown 34: Actress GardnerAVADDown 35: Chapter and __VERSEDDown 36: Banks who was called "Mr. Cub"ERNIEDDown 39: Heavyweight champ Lennox __LEWISDDown 40: Went underSANKDDown 42: A Bobbsey twinNANDDown 44: Simon and Garfunkel's "__ Rock"IAMADDown 47: Ellington of jazzDUKEDDown 49: Shut hardSLAMDDown 52: Clarence of the Supreme CourtTHOMASDDown 55: Midwestern tribesmanOSAGEDDown 57: Rosa of Montgomery's bus boycottPARKSDDown 58: Rice-A-__RONIDDown 59: Hurler HershiserORELDDown 60: Negro Leagues legend Cool Papa __BELLDDown 61: Little liceNITSDDown 63: Gallop, trot or canterGAITDDown 64: Rest stop, in colonial timesINNEDDown 65: Smokes, for shortCIGSDDown 66: Funnyman Bill, brieflyCOSDDown 68: Mr. __ (old board game similar to Clue)REEDDown 69: Mag. editionISS