Newsday.com - Dec 28 2008

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Clues Answers
''60 Minutes'' reporter SAFER
''Animal Crackers'' surname MARX
''Auld Lang Syne'' writer ROBERTBURNS
''Dallas'' mama ELLIE
''Dapper'' guy DAN
''Excuse me!'' AHEM
''Final Four'' round SEMIS
''If I Ran the Zoo'' author SEUSS
''Middlemarch'' author ELIOT
''__ for Evidence'' EIS
12/31 bandleader for 47 years GUYLOMBARDO
12/31 celebration site in Rio COPACABANA
12/31 symbol FATHERTIME
Acquires GAINS
Actor Lee Van __ CLEEF
Acts sleepy YAWNS
Acute KEEN
Ad follower LIB
Annual 1/1 rituals RESOLUTIONS
Apple or avocado TREE
Aquatic weasel OTTER
Atlanta university EMORY
Atlas, for one TITAN
Backup strategy PLANB
Baltic capital RIGA
Banished INEXILE
Beat badly, in baseball NOHIT
Become sleepy TIRE
Being dragged behind INTOW
Big swallow GULP
Bjorn Borg, by birth SWEDE
Board mems., usually CFOS
Breakfast foods MELONS
Bronzes on the beach TANS
Buffalo's county ERIE
Cads ROTTERS
Can't stand HATE
Career soldier LIFER
Chap OLDBOY
Chess-match phase ENDGAME
Clancy character RYAN
Custardy dessert FLAN
Dairy delivery EGGS
Day dividers NOONS
DiCaprio, in headlines LEO
Dinghy implement OAR
Dot follower COM
Driveway material TAR
Early American trailblazer BOONE
Emcee's lines INTROS
European peak ALP
Exploit USE
Eye-color locale IRIS
Fairway clubs IRONS
Fall sound KERPLOP
Fam. member REL
Fashion monogram YSL
Fingerprint lines WHORLS
German article EINE
German city ESSEN
Gravy annoyance LUMP
Gray creator WILDE
Grill partner BAR
Group that takes an annual 1/1 swim POLARBEARCLUB
Groups of seats ROWS
Honorary Oscar recipient of '91 LOREN
Hoo-ha UPROAR
In unison ASONE
Indulgent episode SPREE
Innumerable UMPTEEN
Jar tops LIDS
Just like ALA
Karate schools DOJOS
Clues Answers
Kettle handles BAILS
King of Thebes CREON
Kofi __ Annan ATTA
Last letters XYZ
Latin love AMOR
Lawn layer SOD
Leafed through READ
Little shaver LAD
Magnavox alternative RCA
Make a new note of RELOG
Maritime crime MUTINY
Mauna __ LOA
Miller title character LOMAN
Mini-raptor FALCONET
Most problematical DICIEST
Music genre GOSPEL
Music producer Brian ENO
Nada ZERO
Name of six presidents JAMES
Narrow ravine GULCH
Needed bigger shoes GREW
Neighborhood retailers CLEANERS
New York city OLEAN
Nile nation SUDAN
Oater nickname HOPALONG
Oldest annual 1/1 football game THEROSEBOWL
One way up STAIRS
Paint ingredient LATEX
Paris' pop PRIAM
Part of PEI EDW
Penne kin ZITI
Poetic adverb ANON
Pop singer Jones NORAH
Printer's widths EMS
Prized person GEM
Prom rentals LIMOS
Reaches over SPANS
Red-carpet walkers VIPS
Redeems, with ''in'' CASHES
Resents MINDS
Restrained, with ''in'' REINED
Retinal cell ROD
Rock expert GEOLOGER
Rush off SCOOT
Savor ENJOY
Sched. stats ETAS
Schooner sail JIB
Seoul-based carrier KAL
Shrinking water of Asia ARALSEA
Soul singer Corinne Bailey __ RAE
Spiny houseplant ALOE
Stage direction ENTER
Stuck-up star DIVA
Sushi-bar selections SEAEELS
They're forbidden NONOS
Thick head of hair MANE
Topper HAT
Traditional 12/31 activity in rural Quebec ICEFISHING
Traditional 12/31 Southern side dish BLACKEYEDPEAS
UN member since '76 SAMOA
Utah's state flower, e.g. LILY
Ventilate AIR
Virtuous CHASTE
Westernmost Aleutian ATTU
Where the first major city to see January 1 is NEWZEALAND
White rat, e.g. ALBINO
Wide-eyed AGOG
Word on some euro coins EIRE
Wordsworth work ODE
Yachter's greeting AHOY
Yorba __, CA LINDA
__ Flow (Scottish bay) SCAPA
__ rule ASA