METROPOLITANGENTS

Credit: LA Times Crossword

Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick

(Idea, example, and #1-6)

Each clue below can be answered with the name of a city loosely followed by an appropriate (though sometimes partial) word or phrase. For example, given the clue: "Where Romanians recuperate," the answer would be BUCHAREST HOMES.

1. East Indian house feature

2. Young Dutch girls

3. Uruguayan home movie

4. Ambitious Chilean

5. Portuguese epicure

6. Where some young Slavs study

7. Hungarian exterminator company

8. Chinese skyscrapers

9. Canadian who follows the rules

10. Australian evangelicals

11. Indonesian miscalculation

12. Nigerian "How's it going?"

13. Chinese Christmas song

14. Czech facial features and medical outcomes

15. Transportation for a Bostonian in Bangladesh (one word)

Answers:

1. BOMBAY WINDOW

2. AMSTERDAM SELS

3. MONTEVIDEO TAPE

4. SANTIAGO GETTER

5. LISBON VIVANT

6. BELGRADE SCHOOL

7. BUDAPEST CONTROL

8. SHANGHAI RISES

9. TORONTO THE LINE

10. MELBOURNE AGAIN

11. PUTTING JAKARTA BEFORE THE HORSE

12. "LAGOS THE BATTLE?"

13. BEIJING LE BELLS

14. PRAGUE NOSES

15. DHAKA