Newsday.com - Feb 22 2009

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''Arroz'' partner POLLO
''Bad idea!'' THINKAGAIN
''Beats me!'' IDUNNO
''Bet you can't,'' e.g. DARE
''Bus Stop'' playwright INGE
''How sweet __!'' ITIS
''Leave as is'' STET
''Nautilus'' skipper NEMO
''Scram!'' SKIDOO
''That's a shame!'' ALAS
''Three Sisters'' sister OLGA
007 et al. AGENTS
72 Across' is 99: Abbr. ATNO
Actress Spelling TORI
All wound up TENSE
Attach, as a brooch PINON
Ballet bend PLIE
Be a ham EMOTE
Big name in fashion CALVINKLEIN
Bottled spirit GENIE
Code-cracking org. NSA
Commotions ADOS
Convenience-store setups ATMS
Cool down CHILL
Counted (on) BANKED
Counting everything INALL
County-fair diversion RIDE
Creator of Piglet MILNE
Credit-card name CITI
Cut back PARE
Cyborg film of '87 ROBOCOP
December 1776 battle site TRENTON
Decline to participate PASS
Deep red CERISE
Diarist Nin ANAIS
Does wrong SINS
Educational org. INST
Elec., for one UTIL
Element discovered in 1952 EINSTEINIUM
Emit coherent light LASE
Endurance-building run WINDSPRINT
England-France connector CHUNNEL
Explorer Hernando de __ SOTO
Familiar with UPON
Far from strict LAX
Find a job for PLACE
Fleet-footed SWIFT
Football features LACES
Former Nintendo rival SEGA
Garishly colored LOUD
Golf coup EAGLE
Good poker hand FLUSH
Green-card carrier ALIEN
Gymnastics device HORSE
Hamburg's river ELBE
Hand over CEDE
Hangs in there LASTS
Have coming EARN
Henpecks NAGS
Heredity unit GENE
Hill's partner DALE
In any weather RAINORSHINE
Indy 500's 500 MILES
It may make a point INDEXFINGER
Jillions ALOT
Jockey's handful REINS
Keep __ (persist) ATIT
Latin love AMOR
Lena of ''Chocolat'' OLIN
Like some small planes TWINENGINE
Ltr. addenda PSS
Lyricist Gershwin IRA
Macbeth et al. THANES
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Malice VENOM
Marsh birds RAILS
Mediterranean island MENORCA
Merriment GAIETY
Minstrel-show figure MRBONES
Moon valleys RILLS
More chic TONIER
Mortise mate TENON
Mottled steed PINTO
Nail-polish target TOE
Nigeria's largest city LAGOS
North Pole name KRINGLE
North Pole name CLAUS
Noteworthy act FEAT
Obama's paternal homeland KENYA
Oklahoma city ENID
Old anesthetic ETHER
Old Dodges OMNIS
Part of the UK ENG
Paul Anka tune DIANA
Perfidious FALSE
Phases out ENDS
Philosopher __-tzu LAO
Pick-me-up TONIC
Pirate's potable RUM
Place-setting part NAPKINRING
Places to fish PIERS
Pops DADS
Port of Algeria ORAN
Powder holder KEG
Put on a scale WEIGH
Rainbow shape ARC
Really ticked IRATE
Retailer's display BARGAINBIN
Roe source SHAD
Roll-call vote AYE
Ruhr Valley city ESSEN
Schwarzenegger movie role CONAN
Set straight ALIGN
Shoot-'em-up OATER
Short skirts MINIS
Sight from Sandusky ERIE
Sign before Taurus ARIES
Sign gas NEON
Softly, in music PIANO
Spanish version of James DIEGO
Squirreled away SAVED
Storm systems LOWS
Swampy area FEN
Take wing AVIATE
Tart fruits SLOES
Terrific buy STEAL
Things to brew TEAS
Took a peek GLANCED
Took the gold WON
Toshiba rival SONY
Tot's drink WAWA
Touched down ALIT
Toughened STEELED
Tremor SEISM
Trio of rhyme MICE
Verdi opera AIDA
Waiting-room reading MAGS
Watch over TEND
Way to go ROUTE
Western treaty grp. OAS
When many do lunch ATNOON
Winter hazard SLEET
Without peer ALONE
Word before basin or wave TIDAL
World Cup scores GOALS
Xavier University locale CINCINNATI
Yalies ELIS