Premier Sunday - King Feature Syndicate - Dec 21 2008

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Clues Answers
'-- -la-la!' OOH
'-- homo!' ECCE
'-- Lisa' MONA
'-- the season to be jolly' TIS
'Cool' cash amount MIL
'Grace Before Meat' painter Jan STEEN
'Kiss From --' (#1 hit for Seal) AROSE
'Oui' or 'si' YES
-- -Man PAC
-- -TURN (road sign) NOU
-- Janeiro RIODE
1887 Verdi opera OTELLO
Actor Carney ART
Allegro, e.g. TEMPO
Ammonia compound AMINE
Annex ADDON
Apostle Paul's original name SAULOFTARSUS
Arbitrator REF
Arctic home IGLOO
Asphyxiate SMOTHER
Assumed names ANONYMS
Author Levin IRA
Began liking TOOKTO
Billfold bill ONE
Blows up ERUPTS
Boat rowers OARSMEN
Boxer Clay, renamed ALI
Cap and gown wearer GRAD
Carry before birth GESTATE
Catch with a lasso ROPEIN
Cease HALT
Cereal grain OAT
Chiefly MOSTLY
Choose (to) OPT
Constructs BUILDS
Corn kernels grow on it COB
Czar of 1727-30 PETERII
Departed WENT
Dilettantish ARTY
Dividing membranes, as in noses SEPTA
Dog's pest FLEA
Dr.'s org. AMA
Erving of the NBA, to fans DRJ
Eulogy, e.g. ORATION
Farm father SIRE
Favorite PET
Fine-tunes ADJUSTS
Firebird, e.g. ORIOLE
Fish feature FIN
Flow out of easily, as a word from the tongue ROLLOFF
Formation of flying geese VEE
Furniture chain IKEA
Gallic friend AMI
German king known as 'the Great' OTTOI
Get-go START
Go one better than OUTDO
Greek misanthrope about whom Shakespeare wrote a play TIMONOFATHENS
Ground-breaking tool HOE
Hawaiian necklace LEI
He ruled England during his father King Edward III's last years JOHNOFGAUNT
Heaped (up) PILED
Henry VIII's fourth wife ANNEOFCLEVES
How- -- (handy manuals) TOS
Hurl FLING
Idling gear NEUTRAL
In a jug, e.g. BOTTLED
In a way SORTOF
In the style of a parody SPOOFY
Italian eatery chain SBARRO
Italy's patron saint FRANCISOFASSISI
Jaffa native ISRAELI
Clues Answers
Jar sealer LID
Joking sort WAG
Leicester lav LOO
Leprechaun ELF
Like some punk hairdos SPIKY
Liquor lover SOT
Long and tiresome TEDIOUS
Make grimy SOIL
Make illegal BAN
Modern Maturity org. AARP
Molecule bit ATOM
Native of Iran's capital TEHRANI
Neighbor of France ANDORRA
Nero's 507 DVII
Not be truthful with LIETO
Nothing NIL
Nun who reformed the Carmelites TERESAOFAVILA
Oboe cousin BASSOON
Old card game SKAT
Ones giving exams TESTERS
Ordinal number suffix ETH
Org. for Iraq OPEC
Overseas ABROAD
Paradise ELYSIUM
Part of FCC FEDERAL
Particular magazine printing: Abbr. ISS
Penguin or seal colony ROOKERY
Pew or stool SEAT
Philosopher known for his 'razor' WILLIAMOFOCKHAM
Photo badges, e.g. IDS
Pitch-related TONAL
Polar parka ANORAK
Potpie bits PEAS
Prefix with biology NEURO
Prefix with east or west MID
Pretend ACT
Primp PREEN
Raw resource ORE
Rebelled UPROSE
Reggae star Bob MARLEY
Rio Grande do -- (Brazilian state) SUL
Rival FOE
Robert of 'The Sopranos' ILER
Role PART
Sailing ASEA
Savage one BEAST
She ended the Orleans siege JOANOFARC
She was abducted by Paris HELENOFTROY
Siouan people OTO
Slangy denial NAH
Social insect ANT
Sporting a Roman robe TOGAED
Student loan company SALLIEMAE
Swedish city near Stockholm UPPSALA
Symptom of otitis EARACHE
Tabby cries MEOWS
Tan shade ECRU
The Mamas & the Papas' 'California --' DREAMIN
Throughout the rest of one's existence FORLIFE
Tricky billiards shot MASSE
Tummy-exposing shirt CROPTOP
Unit of heat energy THERM
Unwinds RESTS
Urban play area SANDLOT
Very cold FRIGID
Very model EPITOME
Wellesian 'Citizen' KANE
Work as -- ATEAM
Working well EFFICIENT
Yalie ELI
Zoo tusker RHINO