New York Times - Dec 20 2009

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Clues Answers
'A woman's ___ often opens the door to love': Henry Ward Beecher PITY
'Don't look at me!' NOTI
'Fa la la la la la la la la' and others REFRAINS
'Finished!' ALLDONE
'Gotcha!' AHA
'Me too' SODOI
'Oh, you're back' HELLOAGAIN
'Wheel of Fortune' request ANI
'You bet' OKEYDOKEY
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., on a standard keyboard TOPROW
1962 film set partly on Crab Key DRNO
20-ounce coffee size VENTI
Army of the Potomac commander during the Civil War MEADE
Associate CONSORT
Attack, bear-style CLAWAT
Avenue ___ Champs-Élysées DES
Average Joes PLAINFOLKS
Back in RETRO
Barely contain one's anger SMOLDER
Battery option AAA
Before PRIORTO
Belong FITIN
Big name in kitchen utensils OXO
Boy's name that means 'the king' ELROY
British gun STEN
Bruin great ORR
Busboy's assignment NAPKINFOLDING
Charlotte of 'Diff'rent Strokes' RAE
Che Guevara, e.g. ICON
Christmas sounds HOS
Communism, for one IDEOLOGY
Connected with TIEDINTO
Counter view? STOOLS
Country singer Travis MERLE
Crib cry WAAH
Dice CHOP
Director Vittorio De ___ SICA
Discover alternative VISA
Dmitri's denial NYET
Does Rudolph's job LEADS
Everett of 'Citizen Kane' SLOANE
Expect, everything considered BARGAINFOR
Explores with a tank SCUBAS
French seaport BREST
French term of address MONAMI
Frequent Borat target REDNECK
Fund-raising option RAFFLE
Geom. measure DIAM
Goes to hell ROTS
Good pal BRO
Having I trouble? EGOCENTRIC
Held (up) SHORED
Hoi polloi, with 'the' MASSES
Home of the mask of King Tutankhamen CAIRO
Horace, e.g. ODIST
House speaker between Tom and Dennis NEWT
In a way SORTOF
Increase GOUP
Intense attraction, with 'the' HOTS
It has a large canopy RAINFOREST
It's not gross NET
Item on a toothpick OLIVE
Jai ___ ALAI
Jersey call MOO
Jessica of 'Fantastic Four' ALBA
Just out NEW
Kitchen draw AROMA
La ___, Calif. MESA
Lab inspector? VET
Lay to rest INTER
Clues Answers
Lead-in to phobia AGORA
Lib. references OEDS
Library section, for short BIO
Like some starts FALSE
Like some transfers IRONON
Like some waves TIDAL
Lincoln trademark STOVEPIPE
Lock horns (with) SPAR
Low soccer score ONENIL
Makeup boo-boo SMEAR
Mastroianni's co-star in 'La Dolce Vita' EKBERG
Meteor trailer? OID
Miles off AFAR
Mistreatment ILLUSE
Money in Malmö KRONA
N, E, W and S PTS
N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Thomas ISIAH
Nash and others OGDENS
Not orig. IMIT
Obituary datum AGE
Obliquely ASKANT
Old Coney Island's ___ Park LUNA
Old French coronation city REIMS
One who might be left holding the bag? AIDE
Page of music PATTI
Patient record CHART
Pillow cover SHAM
Play to ___ ATIE
Prefix with fauna AVI
Prize for Paganini STRAD
Put away EATEN
Put in the ground, in a way SOWN
Rafael Nadal specialty TOPSPINFOREHAND
Reagan White House dog REX
Republicans in 2008 MCCAINFOLLOWERS
Request from ASKOF
Rugby action SCRUM
Run through REHEARSE
Scruggs's partner in bluegrass FLATT
Second-rate INFERIOR
See 104-Across SEATS
Seething ABOIL
Sesame Street resident ERNIE
Shop tools HANDSAWS
Six-Day War hero DAYAN
Some employment records: Abbr. SSNS
State, e.g.: Abbr. DEPT
Stop a trip? REGAINFOOTING
Stuck, after 'in' AJAM
Takes to the hills? SKIS
Taoists' locale PAGODA
Target of salicylic acid WART
Three-time U.S. Open champion LENDL
Title fellow in a 1922 Broadway hit ABIE
Title role for Arnold Schwarzenegger CONAN
Tolkien tree creatures ENTS
Trattoria offering LASAGNA
Two-time loser to D.D.E. AES
U.K. award OBE
Unite JOINFORCES
V.I.P. locale DAIS
Was sycophantic to YESED
Where 7-Eleven is headquartered DALLAS
Where to go for the big bucks? RODEO
Whitaker's Oscar-winning role AMIN
Wild UNTAME
William ___, longtime editor of The New Yorker SHAWN
Windows precursor MSDOS
With 40-Across, some Election Day prizes SENATE
___ Vivien, British poet known as the Muse of the Violets RENEE