Newsday.com - Jan 1 2012

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Clues Answers
''As __ saying . . .'' IWAS
''Cats'' inspiration ELIOT
''Go ahead and ask'' TRYME
''Godfather'' surname CORLEONE
''Good riddance!'' NOLOSS
''Knock, knock'' response starter WHOS
''__ nobody can deny'' WHICH
All things NOUNS
Arizona's position, at its 1912 statehood FORTYEIGHTH
Arles assent OUI
Author Ivins MOLLY
Authored WROTE
Barbecue purchase COALS
Baseball stadium opened in 1912 FENWAYPARK
Basic cable channel USA
Be lenient GOEASY
Beloved PGA nickname ARNIE
Big game-show prize TRIP
Black, to Chirac NOIR
Blender setting PUREE
Bracelet locale ANKLE
Breaking news LATEST
Carried BORNE
Castle surrounder MOAT
Cellular-service business TELECOM
Certain headlights LOWBEAMS
Chops down FELLS
Church donations TITHES
Comedy troupe that debuted in 1912 KEYSTONEKOPS
Commandments word SHALT
Computer accessory MOUSE
Conical quarters TEPEE
Conversant with UPON
Cost of leaving FARE
Crew-team member OARSMAN
Crystal user, perhaps NEWAGER
Decline to bid PASS
Demolition specialist RAZER
Domain REALM
Doozies PIPS
Drawer attachments KNOBS
Eases off ABATES
Eats in the evening SUPS
Egg on GOAD
Engine sound VROOM
Erroneous FALSE
Examining EYING
Exemplars of grace SWANS
Express displeasure HISS
Females' rec ctr YWCA
Fictional Frome ETHAN
Find innocent ACQUIT
Finish first WIN
First stage ONSET
First-of-type subject of a 1912 Massachusetts law MINIMUMWAGE
Flintstones' pet DINO
Folk balladeer born in 1912 WOODYGUTHRIE
Fossilized hoax of 1912 PILTDOWNMAN
French chemist Lavoisier ANTOINE
Frighten STARTLE
Goes off course YAWS
Greatest extent FULLEST
Hack off LOP
Hardly likely SLIM
Ill temper BILE
Ill-fated ship of 1912 RMSTITANIC
In the future AHEAD
Interrogate QUIZ
Intro drawing class ARTI
Is forbidden to, old-style MAYNT
Is offended by MINDS
Clues Answers
Laser-pointer battery AAAA
Lawman Earp WYATT
Life stories BIOS
Major ATM manufacturer NCR
Major blood group TYPEO
Minimal evidence SHRED
Minus LESS
Mrs. Dithers in ''Blondie'' CORA
Name of six popes ADRIAN
New pilots' milestones SOLOS
Noble principles IDEALS
Noodlehead NINNY
Not as ornate PLAINER
Not quite closed AJAR
Of touch TACTUAL
Once around the track LAP
Online discussion CHAT
Peacekeeping org NATO
Pen full of oink STY
Petty one MEANY
Pizza topping ONION
Poetic day starter MORN
Poetic feet IAMBS
Practical application USAGE
Prime-time hour TEN
Pub serving ALE
Rhett Butler portrayer GABLE
Rich cake TORTE
Robert Burns' hillsides BRAES
Rode the bench SAT
Sales team REPS
Sam of ''The Piano'' NEILL
Sched. slot notation TBA
Second film shot TAKETWO
Shakespearean forest ARDEN
Shaved-ice treat SNOCONE
Shortened-sentence recipient PAROLEE
Smitten INLOVE
Snack on EAT
Soul singer Lou RAWLS
Spanish celebration FIESTA
Specialty of a Columbia school established in 1912 JOURNALISM
Sports arbiter REF
Stand up ARISE
Start the day WAKE
String instruments VIOLS
Suffix for secret IVE
Surprised person's agreement WHYYES
Talking too much YAKKING
Teddy Roosevelt's party in 1912 PROGRESSIVE
Temporary increase SPIKE
Throng CROWD
Typing-speed stat WPM
Unskilled worker PEON
USN officer ENS
Varieties SORTS
Very small TINY
Walked through water WADED
Weekly TV show SERIES
What ''Grr!'' may mean IMMAD
Wholesale quantity CASE
Wicked EVIL
Window glass PANES
Witch's bestowal CURSE
Women's mag COSMO
World Series lead-in: Abbr NLCS
WWII sub UBOAT
Yale students ELIS
Youth group founded in 1912 GIRLSCOUTS
__ mater ALMA
__ nova (ballroom dance) BOSSA