New York Times - Dec 29 2007

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Clues Answers
'Common Nonsense' author, 2002 ANDYROONEY
'___ Nobody' (1983 Chaka Khan hit) AINT
'___ wondrous pitiful': 'Othello' TWAS
Banks of note TYRA
Bunch BEVY
Catawampus AWRY
Cupule's contents ACORN
Draft picks BEERS
End-of-year festival WINTERTIDE
Even numbers TIE
Fall production CIDER
Father of Hophni and Phinehas, in the Bible ELI
Finger or toe DACTYL
Fliers, e.g. HANDOUTS
Gasconade BRAG
Graffitists' scrawls TAGS
Grant's position in presidential history EIGHTEENTH
Hair-raiser? UPDO
Handle incorrectly? MISTITLE
Initiations BAPTISMS
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety concern STOLENCARS
Introduction to Chinese? INDO
It has a smaller degree of loft than a mashie FOURIRON
It may be blind FAITH
Joins WELDS
Latin land descriptor FIRMA
Like racehorses SHOD
List in a book's front: Abbr. TOC
Margay cousins OCELOTS
Mass appeals: Abbr. SERS
McKinley's first vice president HOBART
Meditative exercise TAICHI
Military band SASH
Clues Answers
Mob rule OCHLOCRACY
Modesty preserver, in some films BUBBLEBATH
Mountain sheep ARGALI
Name equivalent to Hans or Ivan SEAN
Old form of Italian musical drama OPERASERIA
One running for work? BOOTLEGGER
Pixar's first feature-length film TOYSTORY
Price-manipulating group POOL
Private group ARMY
Public appearance preparers ADVANCEMEN
Puts away ICES
Retinue CORTEGE
Rich mine or other source of great wealth GOLCONDA
Rocket datum: Abbr. ALT
Rug rat MOPPET
Scolding wife: Var. XANTIPPE
Scoring units NOTES
See-through sheets PLATEGLASS
Shell, e.g. BOAT
Shuffles MOSEYS
Siege site FORT
Spanish city that gave sherry its name XERES
Sparkling WITTY
Squire ESCORT
Tear up MIST
Top-of-the-line CLASSA
Tries something HASAGOATIT
Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work PERIPETEIA
Uniform armband BRASSARD
Where to pick up dates? PALMS
You can make light of it LANTERN
You may be lost in the middle of it NOWHERE
___ Harker, heroine of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' MINA