Universal - Dec 25 2008

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Clues Answers
''According to me,'' in e-mail shorthand IMO
''Dies ___'' IRAE
''Fanny'' author Jong ERICA
''One if by land, two if by sea,'' e.g. CODE
''Siddhartha'' author HESSE
''Vissi d'___'' (Puccini air) ARTE
A bit cuckoo DAFT
Admitting all contestants OPEN
Alex Haley best-seller ROOTS
Amphitheater COLISEUM
Any song by The Flamingos OLDIE
Autumn birthstone OPAL
Barbarous person OGRE
Big knell PEAL
Boxer's quest TITLE
Carpenter's upright STUD
Cereal grass OAT
Chowderhead SIMP
Color variations TONES
Diary capacity YEAR
Disappears like the Wicked Witch of the West MELTS
Does well on the links PARS
Drum site EAR
East on a grandfather clock III
Entertain AMUSE
Euphemistic curse DANG
Fair and honorable JUST
Filmmaker Wertmuller LINA
Flashy trinket GAUD
Flip ___ (one way to decide) ACOIN
For the second time AGAIN
Fugard's ''A Lesson From ___'' ALOES
Goes to pieces? SHATTERS
Greenback ONE
Guileful SLY
Hardly modern RETRO
Holding of value ASSET
Is wearing HASON
Clues Answers
It has a high hemline MINI
John of ''Good Times'' AMOS
Knee support BRACE
Magazine with an annual 400 list FORBES
Make zealous ENTHUSE
Motherless calf DOGIE
Natural sunscreen? ELM
Neck of the woods AREA
Nickname for Theodore TED
Office aide (Abbr.) ASST
Out of it INASTUPOR
Palindromic relative SIS
People on pedestals IDOLS
Powerful mackerel shark MAKO
Preschooler's dread NAP
Provider of flights to Tel Aviv ELAL
Religious depictions of mourning PIETAS
Roly's partner POLY
Scenery chewers HAMS
Shakespearean Moor OTHELLO
Short-tailed weasel STOAT
Sound off OPINE
Spirits are found here ALEHOUSES
Stateswoman Golda MEIR
Studio occupant, perhaps LESSEE
Suspense-film classic LAURA
The stuff of folk tales LORE
Total trust FAITH
Traditional Christmas air JINGLEBELLS
Traditional Christmas gift FRUITCAKE
Traditional decoration HOLLY
Traditional gift-giver SECRETSANTA
Traditional icebreaker MISTLETOE
Waiter's notation ORDER
Where many an embarrassing flub is made ONAIR
Word with ''basket'' or ''federal'' CASE
Workplace-protection org. OSHA
World's largest peninsula ARABIA