Newsday.com - Dec 19 2008

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Clues Answers
''Bird'' AIRPLANE
''My Cousin Vinny'' actress TOMEI
''Swan Lake'' princess ODETTE
Allowed to mellow AGED
Appropriate APT
Arizona native HOPI
Auto Club patron MOTORIST
Baked dessert TART
Bee Taylor's grandnephew OPIE
Blue hue TEAL
Boor LOUT
Checkers' bars UPCS
Cougar PUMA
Cubic meter STERE
Dirties SOILS
Dom DeLuise film of '80 FATSO
Encouraging word OLE
End of an alphabet OMEGA
Engendered BRED
Essayist's alias ELIA
Excited, with ''up'' KEYED
Fitzgerald forte SCAT
Frank extra RELISH
Gulf state OMAN
Heap TON
Herb's energy level? BASILMETABOLISM
Hi's partner LOIS
It lands in the stands HOMER
It means ''sacred'' HIERO
It meant nothing to Caesar NIHIL
Joy's lioness ELSA
Ladybug nosh APHID
Massachusetts school TUFTS
Memorable mint? THYMEOFYOURLIFE
Minor prophet AMOS
Modern messages EMAIL
Monogram pt. LTR
Clues Answers
Ness et al. TMEN
No longer in DECLASSE
Not-nice look SNEER
One who's dubbed KNIGHT
Osiris' spouse ISIS
Panache STYLE
Pantry items YEASTS
Pin-comparable ASNEAT
PST st. ORE
Pupu-platter piece SPARERIB
Santiago sweetheart AMOR
Scotch cocktail ROBROY
Singer Kitt EARTHA
Sistine Chapel subject ADAM
Sly Foxx REDD
Smart-mouthed WISE
So ERGO
Soc. ASSN
Sondheim protagonist TODD
Spicy old poem? CUMINTHROTHERYE
Spills it TELLSALL
Stage boor HAM
Standish's stand-in ALDEN
Start of a Bennett title ILEFT
Storage place SILO
Sun Devils' home TEMPE
Taoism founder LAOTSE
Texas tourist stop ALAMO
Unconvincing LAME
Valhalla bigwig ODIN
Verbal flim-flam FASTTALK
Wanderer HOBO
Warmonger HAWK
Watched carefully EYED
Windshield-wiper target SLEET
__ Alto PALO
__ Hari MATA