Newsday.com - Dec 19 2009

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Clues Answers
''Liqueur'' flavoring MENTHE
''Major'' beast URSA
''Reader, I married him'' speaker EYRE
''Simpsons'' bus driver OTTO
Actress Blakley RONEE
African outback VELD
Antipathy NOLOVELOST
Apiarist in a '97 film ULEE
Baloney NOTSO
Be OK for SUIT
Be very friendly NESTLE
Betrayed delight OOHED
Break off CEASE
Brewery fixture OAST
Bunches ATON
By force of habit ASARULE
Can't help but NEEDSTO
Chief Justice before Chase TANEY
Chooses at random DRAWSLOTS
Cinnamon, for one TREE
City near Squaw Valley RENO
Comb user BEE
Consider ENTERTAIN
Corporate cheque abbr. LTD
Count's equivalent EARL
Curator's concerns RELICS
Deflation sound SISS
Detestable ones TOADS
Disservice HARM
Ditty bit TRA
Don't miss GETALONGWITHOUT
Double TWIN
Encouraging word ATTA
Encouraging words RAHS
Examine TEST
Extravagant utterance RANT
Clues Answers
First ''Great'' pope LEOI
Flat out ROUNDLY
Ghostly uncle of Casper FATSO
Harald V's home OSLO
His best-known image is ''Symphony in Black'' ERTE
Impression SENSE
Is in a commanding position HOLDSALLTHEACES
It's like ''-like'' INE
Item on the Great Seal SCROLL
James in the Grammy Hall of Fame ETTA
Linear lead-in RECTI
Met unexpectedly RANINTO
Name on the cover of ''The Chinese Parrot'' DERR
Nitroglycerin et al. ESTERS
No longer adequate RUSTY
Obtain genetically INHERIT
Ones making up ATONERS
Opposite of ''catalysts'' INHIBITORS
Physicist Ampère ANDRE
Pun reaction OUCH
Qualify ENTITLE
Reverent PIOUS
Rob Roy rejection NAE
Rooting section SNOUT
See FINDOUT
Shellac DRUB
Something hot LATESTTHING
Stimulate WHET
Take off on APE
Top DOONEBETTERTHAN
Was to be: Lat. ERAT
Westernmost of the Near Islands ATTU
Wherein Hoffman sings ''That's Amore'' ISHTAR
Wine city of Hungary EGER
__ blue NILE
__ time INDUE