Newsday.com - Dec 9 2007

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Clues Answers
''A Confederacy of Dunces'' author TOOLE
''Annabel Lee'' writer POE
''Fear of Flying'' author JONG
''Inter __'' (among other things) ALIA
''Mad'' Revolutionary War general WAYNE
''Notorious'' name CARY
''The Verdict'' director LUMET
10 Down's outgo RENT
123 Across garb SARI
Abate LESSEN
Actor Jared LETO
Addams or Austen JANE
Altar constellation ARA
Amuses a lot SLAYS
Bad habits VICES
Battle sites ARENAS
Beginning, so to speak GETGO
Best-selling cookie OREO
Big trouble HORNETSNEST
Bounded LEAPT
Bowling-lane button RESET
Bran source WHEAT
Brief altercation SETTO
BTU relative THERM
Came down ALIT
Central American region MOSQUITOCOAST
Chap GENT
Chop down HEW
Cole Porter tune PAREE
Come back to a club REJOIN
Comics soldier BEETLEBAILEY
Compared to THAN
Composer Copland AARON
Concerning INRE
Concludes one's case RESTS
Consternation DISMAY
Dressed CLAD
Eight, in Ecuador OCHO
Elite groups ALISTS
Erode EATAT
Exited LEFT
Expunge ERASE
Film role for Shirley IRMA
Fur tycoon ASTOR
Gandhi colleague NEHRU
Gas in bulbs ARGON
Glide on ice SKATE
Government security, for short TBILL
Hagiographer's subjects SAINTS
Hard work TOIL
Has debts OWES
Hole-making tools AWLS
Homer's lament DOH
Hoof sound CLOP
Illinois senator OBAMA
In an unclear way OPAQUELY
Indian Ocean inlet REDSEA
Indonesian island BALI
Interpol headquarters LYON
Is operational WORKS
Isle __ National Park ROYALE
It means ''half'' HEMI
Italian wine region ASTI
Kelsey Grammer, e.g. TVSTAR
Kind of cop NARC
Kitchen conclusion ETTE
Last-place finisher LOSER
Latin love AMOR
Lieu STEAD
Long-limbed primate SPIDERMONKEY
Lots of paper REAMS
Make a mess of BLOW
Clues Answers
Make amends ATONE
Make eyes at OGLE
Make yawn BORE
Meditative discipline YOGA
Memo notation ASAP
Memorable ''Vogue'' photographer AVEDON
Mild oath JIMINYCRICKET
Minstrel's instrument LUTE
Moral lapses SINS
Most with August birthdays LEOS
Nasal noise SNORE
Nasdaq debuts IPOS
Native Kuwaiti ARAB
Of hearing AURAL
Of planetary paths ORBITAL
Old Testament book ESTHER
Outfielder's catch HIGHFLY
Paint or dye COLOR
Parboil SCALD
Part of ILGWU INTL
Perry's creator ERLE
Petty squabble SPAT
Pianist Rubinstein ARTUR
Pie holder, perhaps DEEPDISH
Pigpens STIES
Poetic adverb ANON
Pollster's discovery TREND
Pop-music category SOUL
Preposterous ASININE
Princess of India RANI
Psychs out RATTLES
Qum native IRANI
Raise, as a flag HOIST
Russian river URAL
Say ''Tsk tsk!'' CHIDE
School-auditorium event SPELLINGBEE
Scientific study OLOGY
Senator from Maine SNOWE
Shakespearean queen TITANIA
Sharp-tasting TART
Show-biz mag VARIETY
Sign or support ENDORSE
Sketched again REDREW
Some Prado paintings GOYAS
Sound wistful SIGH
Spare hair WIG
Spiny houseplant ALOE
Sportcaster's shout YES
Spotted SEEN
Styling center SALON
Sub rosa INSECRET
Take in or let out ALTER
Tariff-raising exercise TRADEWAR
Tenant LESSEE
Tennis surface LAWN
They're pitched to use TENTS
Thomas Hardy heroine TESS
Tigers and Twins ALERS
Time being NONCE
Toon flapper Betty BOOP
Toon skunk LEPEW
Trial site VENUE
Tried to catch RANFOR
Unprecedented NOVEL
Unwilling to negotiate ADAMANT
Vegetable spread OLEO
Volvo competitor SAAB
Wall Street traders ARBS
Was lachrymose WEPT
Worker's cry TGIF
Writer Wiesel ELIE
Wyo. neighbor NEBR