Newsday.com - Dec 11 2011

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''. . . baked in __'' APIE
''But you know how __'' ITIS
''Divine Comedy'' writer DANTE
''GQ'' target audience MALES
''Last call!'' at the bar? ALEWARNING
''Seinfeld'' character ELAINE
''That's too bad!'' AWGEE
''Today'' host LAUER
''__ apple every day . . .'' EATAN
'70s tennis star EVERT
100-store complexes MALLS
19 Across intersection CORNER
A long time AGES
About 1.1 yards METER
Airport entryway GATE
Analyzed grammatically PARSED
Apartment takers LESSEES
Bagel filling LOX
Barrel of laughs RIOT
Basilica part NAVE
Bed board SLAT
Bog down MIRE
Border on ABUT
Canine comment ARF
Carroll character ALICE
Cats and canaries PETS
Chewed the fat JAWED
Chicago-based film critic EBERT
Chitchat TALK
Citified URBAN
Combatant of 1901 BOER
Corroborations of 300 games? ALLEYPROOFS
Crocheting project DOILY
Disney film first called ''The Concert Feature'' FANTASIA
Doc bloc AMA
Duck, as a question AVOID
Elaborate party FETE
Elaborate party GALA
Evasive maneuvers ENDRUNS
Extended families CLANS
Family outing, perhaps DAYTRIP
Farming medium SOIL
Fashion-house founder DIOR
Floor finish VARNISH
Free from frost DEICE
Galley gadget PARER
Gaudy jewelry, so to speak BLING
Get-up-and-go PEP
Give the slip to EVADE
Go it alone SOLO
Grand __ Opry OLE
Guide for numerical approximations? ROUNDRULES
Gung-ho AVID
Had been WERE
Ham it up EMOTE
Hamburg's river ELBE
Has a hunch FEELS
Head off AVERT
Heaven-sent help MANNA
Hit head-on RAM
Holiday lead-ins EVES
Ill-mannered one BOOR
Illustration in a Poe collection? RAVENIMAGE
Impressive grouping ARRAY
Jumbo-jet popularizer PANAM
Long, long ago? OLDENYEARS
Lug around TOTE
M __ ''mastodon'' ASIN
Major leaguers, e.g PROS
Makes smooth SANDS
Marine biologist's study? RAYSANATOMY
Marquee filler, maybe NEON
Member of the crow family JAY
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Migratory bird TERN
Monogram pt INIT
Mouth-watering SAVORY
Muscle twitches TICS
Not as aloof NICER
Not available at the moment INUSE
Paranormal ability ESP
Part of a Father Time costume BEARD
Part of AD ANNO
Performers at some readings POETS
Place to fish PIER
Plant firmly EMBED
Poke fun at TWIT
Port of Yemen ADEN
Presidential turndown VETO
Privately financed film INDIE
Prop for Mr. Peanut CANE
Prosecutors: Abbr DAS
Prove false BELIE
Pts. of a range MTS
Rambles around ROVES
Reference book, for short ROGETS
Regatta aftermath? ROWINGPAINS
Rub the wrong way RILE
Sadat predecessor NASSER
Santa __, CA CLARA
Says further ADDS
See eye to eye AGREE
Settles accounts PAYS
Shoe specification EEE
Silk substitute RAYON
Some Louisianans CREOLES
Sororities? LASSHOUSES
Sounds off RANTS
Spare-room user GUEST
Spoonful, say TASTE
St. crosser AVE
Stressed type: Abbr ITAL
Struck out EXED
Subsidiary dinner course SIDE
Subtle glow AURA
Suffix for glob ULE
Summons electronically PAGES
Swallows INGESTS
Swift RAPID
Swiftly APACE
Symbol next to 8 ASTERISK
Symbol of Oregon BEAVER
Take the wheel STEER
Takes an apartment RENTS
Talks nonsense PRATES
Tall story TALE
Teamwork thwarters EGOS
Tell-__ (some bios) ALLS
Temporary tattoo dye HENNA
Thirsty DRY
Threw a hissy fit RAGED
Touched down ALIT
Transparent overlay ACETATE
Turned white PALED
Type ILK
Unfolds OPENS
University officers REGENTS
Vast majority BULK
Was a county-fair judge? RATEDCHEESE
Was inclined LEANT
Weather, in verse CLIME
Welcome GREET
What a flagship leads FLEET
When candidates campaign? RACEPERIOD
Whopping LARGE
Wordsworth work ODE
Zola novel NANA