Newsday.com - Dec 31 2008

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Clues Answers
''Home on the Range'' beast DEER
''Upside-down'' dessert CAKE
''__ de mer'' MAL
Access to a 16 Across PINNUMBER
Acted like a nag CARPED
Ancient Roman statesman CATO
Auditioner's goal ROLE
Aussie leaper ROO
Baby-powder ingredient TALC
Banquet area DAIS
Bard's ''before'' ERE
Bard's nightfall EEN
BBs and bullets AMMO
Beastly sort OGRE
Blissful spot EDEN
Butcher-scale button TARE
Cash dispenser ATMMACHINE
Causes to yawn, perhaps BORES
Choral voice ALTO
Con game SCAM
Condo apartment UNIT
Crotchety sort COOT
Desert mount CAMEL
Drum up, as business SOLICIT
Flowers-to-be BUDS
For men and women COED
From square one ANEW
Fruit-filled pastry STRUDEL
Gung-ho AVID
Hang in there STAY
Hibachi residue ASH
Horse fathers SIRES
Investigator PROBER
Is ready to rest TIRES
JFK or LBJ DEM
Jury member PEER
Kind of electricity ACCURRENT
Kitchen gizmo DICER
Like Venetian blinds SLATTED
Clues Answers
Mag. staffers EDS
Media mogul Turner TED
Monopoly buy HOTEL
Mosaic artist TILER
Mucky stuff MIRE
Nest egg IRAACCOUNT
Nobelist Wiesel ELIE
Oodles ALOT
Oodles SCADS
Part of DC DISTRICT
Place for key limes PIE
Potter's oven KILN
Produce Z's SNORE
Pupil's site IRIS
Pushed hard URGED
Rose-garden pest APHID
Runs into RAMS
Safe and sound SECURE
See 59 Across TOSS
Sends in SUBMITS
Short-tempered TESTY
Silently understood TACIT
Singer Sedaka NEIL
Sort of shuttle BUS
Spoken ALOUD
Squirrel away STORE
Stampede sound MOO
Stands for MEANS
Steer clear of AVOID
Supermarket department DELI
Tag-team member WRESTLER
Tea-leaves reader SEER
Underdog's win UPSET
Walk shakily TOTTER
Wedgwood alternative SPODE
Where to spend rupees INDIA
With 62 Across, pre-kickoff ritual COIN
Word on a dollar ONE
Work hard TOIL