New York Times - Dec 7 2008

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Clues Answers
'A Visit From St. Nicholas,' e.g. TITLE
'Christopher Robin went down with ___': Milne ALICE
'Dune' director David LYNCH
'He-e-ere's Johnny!,' e.g. INTRO
'Lady T' singer ___ Marie TEENA
'Taking Heat' memoirist Fleischer ARI
'The Story-Teller' storyteller SAKI
'___ a Living' ITS
'___ Mutual Friend' OUR
'___ old for this!' IMTOO
'___, how love can trifle with itself!': Shak. ALAS
*Commits knitting boo-boos DROPSSTITCHES
*Distinguishes KEEPSSTRAIGHT
*Does a hostler's work SWEEPSSTALLS
*Engages in some mutual gossip SWAPSSTORIES
*Participates in a bear market DUMPSSTOCKS
*Plays at a pond, in a way SKIPSSTONES
911 respondent EMT
Accept a bad defeat, in slang EATIT
Actress Annabella of 'The Sopranos' SCIORRA
Alley-___ pass OOP
Ancestor of a banjo LUTE
Answer, shortly RSVP
Ballyhoo TOUT
Bar product SOAP
Barbara of 'Mission: Impossible' BAIN
Bribes OILS
Brightest star in Auriga, from the Latin for 'little she-goat' CAPELLA
Brisk NIPPY
Brit's oath GOR
Burn cause LYE
Busters? NARCS
Bygone TV inits. UPN
Cabinet head: Abbr. SECY
Card's insignia STL
Caved in SAIDOK
Chicken dish FRICASSEE
Clique INGROUP
Co. name ender LTD
Conceited VAIN
Contact sport with a purification ritual SUMO
Correct EMEND
Cross shape TAU
Doctrine ISM
Dutch artist Theo JANSEN
Ellen of 'Grey's Anatomy' POMPEO
Emerson's 'jealous mistress' ART
Empty (of) RID
English actor Sir ___ Jacobi DEREK
Entertains, as a child at bedtime READSTO
Equatorial land PERU
Everything THELOT
Examine covetously EYEUP
Fingerprint feature RIDGE
Formal DRESSY
Frauds POSEURS
Free of mistakes INERRANT
Give a hint CUEIN
Give off EMIT
Guthrie with a guitar ARLO
Home of the Wright Brothers Natl. Memorial NCAR
How to put a coin in a coin slot EDGEWAYS
Is in the Vatican EST
Isn't serious JESTS
It may be illegal to hang one UEY
Jobs offering of 1998 IMAC
Junkyard junk SCRAPIRON
Lacking limbs APODAL
Landscaper's locale YARD
Clues Answers
Languished SATIDLE
Like Bart Simpson's hair SPIKY
Like many root vegetables for the winter STORABLE
Like some dirt paths RUTTY
Literary wrap-up ENDNOTES
Little fingers MINIMI
Load bearer? DRYER
Loser of a footrace with Hippomenes ATALANTA
Lugs SCHLEPS
Lunkheads ASSES
Make a choice OPT
Make a record of ENTER
Make it home safely SCORE
Medium of OPEC transactions USDOLLARS
Merino mother EWE
Midpoint: Abbr. CTR
Most grinchlike MEANEST
Moving easily SPRY
Nailed ACED
Nothing NIHIL
Olympics no-no DOPING
Overly rehearsed PAT
Pain along the course of a nerve NEURALGIA
Paws TEARSAT
Plane seating specification EXITROW
Plant with two seed leaves DICOT
Played out TRITE
President-___ ELECT
Proofreader's mark DELE
Provokes IRES
Pulitzer winner for 'Russia Leaves the War' KENNAN
Québec traffic sign ARRET
Queens neighborhood near La Guardia DITMARS
Removing, as paint SCRAPING
Residential sign TOLET
Retreats SANCTA
Right away ASAP
San ___, locale just north of Tijuana, Mexico YSIDRO
Scoreboard side VISITORS
Seasonal time, in store signs XMAS
Seconds, say SOMEMORE
Sharp rebuke SLAP
Silvery salmon SMOLTS
Some landlocked bodies of water SALTLAKES
Speak carelessly SLUR
Start of an announcement ... or a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the six starred clues YOURATTENTIONPLEASE
Start of the seventh century DCI
Sticker? TINE
Stipend ALLOWANCE
Strict disciplinarian RAMROD
Stubborn response IREFUSE
Subjects of many bets PONIES
Suffix with disk ETTE
Summer drinks ADES
Sweater's place SAUNA
Sweet 16 org. NCAA
Temper tantrum SNIT
The Beatles' '___ Why' ASKME
Try TEST
TV pooch with a temper REN
Vacation time in Valois ETE
Very, in music ASSAI
When said three times, a 1970 film TORA
Word of dissent NAY
Worrisome engine sound PING
___ diagram VENN
___ facto IPSO
___ onto GLOM
___ soldier TIN