Newsday.com - Dec 17 2011

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Clues Answers
''Hombre'' SENOR
''Mapa'' lines RIOS
''Symphony in Black'' artist ERTE
Ancestry LINEAGE
Baloney BLAH
Barrel of laughs RIOT
Beer progenitor MEAD
Being risked ATSTAKE
Big business for the Bahamas TOURISM
Call for help SOS
Came to EQUALED
Camp nickname SARGE
Carouse REVEL
Chargers' group AFCWEST
Couldn't stand DESPISED
Duplex BILEVEL
E-File destination IRS
Eminence STATURE
Garish LOUD
Hair-raising stuff ROGAINE
Halter alternative TUBETOP
Hangs about LOITERS
High-level Fed CZAR
Lapse ERR
Leave alone ISOLATE
Life of the party, perhaps WIT
Lush SOT
Make a connection TIE
Make it all up LIE
Mall-merchant venue KIOSK
Money first issued in '48 DMARKS
Name on a slate NOMINEE
New arrival in town STRANGER
One seater MAITRED
Pair of sixes ESSES
Potato __ SKINS
Clues Answers
Press on URGE
Privately SUBROSA
Pull at TUG
Ready for an engagement ONALERT
Recast ALTERED
Received formally GREETED
Research paper evaluator REFEREE
Robert Turner III TED
Safe from harm SHIELDED
Safe Toys and Gifts Mo DEC
Saint who named a city LOUISIX
Scrabble player's favorite card game BEZIQUE
Share requirement QUOTA
Shindigs FETES
Ship, at times EXPORT
Short composition PIECE
Specialty Code list publisher AMA
Stains, or removes stains SPOTS
Stockholm money KRONA
Stop on the Turin-Genoa line ASTI
Sub captain's command SURFACE
Subject of a Degas café painting ABSINTHE
Taken to extremes SEVERE
Thriving STRONG
Thunderstorm phenomena SQUALLS
Title bestowed on du Maurier DAME
Toward the tail AFT
Type of toy TERRIER
Ultimate cause ROOT
Unmistakable EVIDENT
Uproar TURMOIL
Vibrancy LIFE
Went for ELECTED
Went over banks SLEDDED
What Adam and Eve never did, per Twain TEETHED
Wolf catcher of classical music PETER