New York Times - Dec 13 2009

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Clues Answers
'Because Freedom Can't Protect Itself' org. ACLU
'Believe ___ Not!' ITOR
'In & Out' star, 1997 KLINE
'Like that'll ever happen!' ASIF
'M*A*S*H' co-star SWIT
'Now!' STAT
'That's patently ridiculous!' DONTBESTUPID
100 cents EURO
2001 biopic ALI
300-cubit-long craft ARK
Aboard ONTO
Activity for good-looking people? HIDEANDSEEK
Actor Waggoner and others LYLES
All out WITHAVENGEANCE
All washed up? CLEAN
Amphitheater shape OVAL
Apartment manager, familiarly SUPE
Artoo-___ DETOO
Atkins diet no-no CARB
Author Robert ___ Butler OLEN
Band with the 1998 #1 hit 'Iris' GOOGOODOLLS
Bear witness ATTEST
Begins DAWNS
Big name in copiers RICOH
Birthplace of Jules Verne NANTES
Break off SECEDE
Brief writer, in brief ATT
Business that makes the cut? SALON
Busy times on the French Riviera ETES
Caper ANTIC
Cariou of Broadway's 'Sweeney Todd' LEN
Carol contraction TIS
Carry the day WIN
Cause of Irish emigration in the 1840s-'50s POTATOFAMINE
Churlish IMPOLITE
Codlike fishes HAKES
College freshman, usually TEEN
Creative story LIE
Cry accompanied by a gavel rap SOLD
Deck spots PIPS
Digital watch brand CASIO
Director Almodovar PEDRO
Dish often served folded over OMELET
Dry cleaner's challenge SPOT
Early shepherd ABEL
Easily identifiable ICONIC
Femur terminus HIP
Frequent Security Council topic MIDEAST
G-men's weapons GATS
Giovanni of 'Lost in Translation' RIBISI
Haleakala National Park setting MAUI
Have ___ up one's sleeve ACARD
He played Dr. Kildare in 1930s-'40s films LEWAYRES
Heavily satirical BITING
Helps in planting TROWELS
Hold back STINTON
I.B.M. computer of the 1990s APTIVA
Intensify DEEPEN
Intrinsically ATHEART
Is around longer than OUTLIVES
It borders the Brooklyn Botanic Garden FLATBUSHAVENUE
It can carry a tune IPOD
Jargon ender ESE
Junket TRIP
Key in ENTER
Kind of butterfly SOCIAL
Lane in Hollywood DIANE
Leviathan's home SEA
Like bonds and movies RATED
Lily variety CALLA
Clues Answers
List holders NOTEPADS
Long-running NBC show, for short SNL
Lose intensity EBB
Low point MINIMUM
Meat-stock jelly ASPIC
Members of some city commissions ZONERS
Mouth feature DELTA
Muppet with a goldfish named Dorothy ELMO
Muttonhead ASS
Net assets? WEBSITES
Netman Nastase ILIE
Niagara River's source ERIE
Night 'The Wild Wild West' was shown in 1960s TV: Abbr. FRI
Numerical comparison RATIO
Nutritionists' topics FOODS
Olive in the funny pages OYL
Over there YON
Part of a dean's address EDU
Peaks, to Pedro MONTES
Perpendicular wing ELL
Piddling MERE
Platypus part BILL
Proctor's call TIME
Pulitzer category DRAMA
Purple-flowering tree PAPAW
Ravi Shankar performance RAGA
Region of Greece containing the capital ATTICA
Related groups CLANS
Remote possibility? CABLE
Replaced, on a hard drive OVERWROTE
Rich blue stone LAPISLAZULI
Riot police goal DISPERSAL
Rows of buttons TOOLBARS
Sculpting medium ICE
Seeks water, in a way DOWSES
Set the price at ASK
Setting setting TABLETOP
She won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a man LINDAHUNT
Sitcom waitress FLO
Skimmer, e.g. HAT
Snaps PICS
Spine feature BOOKTITLE
Spring site OASIS
Squat NADA
Sudden rush SPATE
Sunscreen additive ALOE
Superior group ELITE
Support AID
Swabbies TARS
Tasmania's capital HOBART
The Beatles' '___ Loser' IMA
The Pont Neuf spans it SEINE
They may be bowled over PINS
Three more than quadri- SEPTI
Turn up COME
Turned informer RATTED
TV networks, e.g. AIRERS
Under control INHAND
Unstressed ATONIC
Victim of Achilles HECTOR
Web-footed mammal OTTER
Western accessories BOLOTIES
Where a flock flocks LEA
White Rabbit's lament IMLATE
Wishful thinker of story ALADDIN
Without exception TOAMAN
Wrecking ball alternative TNT
Yen DESIRE
___ culpa MEA
___ Nehru Gandhi INDIRA