ISN'T IT ROMANTIC?
Credit: NY Times Crossword
Ernst Theimer

The clues below can be answered with a word that begins with one or more Roman numerals, if you separate the numeral from the rest of the word. . For example, given the clue 504 marbles, the answer would be DIVAGATES  as in DIV AGATES. DIV is 504 in Roman numerals and AGATES are certain marbles. (DIVAGATE means to wander about or digress.)

1) 1,000 boats
2) 1,000 poems
3) 1,001 log holders
4) 100 black cuckoos
5) 1,099 regal garments
6) 1,049 ships like the QE2
7) Boleyn and 99 others
8) Scheherazade's string of tales
9) Final, winning move in a 151-move chess game

Answers:

1. MARKS
2. MODES
3. MIGRATES
4. CANIS
5. MICROBES
6. MILLINERS
7. CANNES
8. MISERIES
9. CLIMATE