The A.V Club - Dec 5 2012

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Clues Answers
'Behold' or 'arise' in poetry IAMB
'Dancing with the Stars' routine RUMBA
'Lord of the Rings' setting, with 'the' SHIRE
'OK, let's see what's in your hand' ICALL
'Oysters ___ season' RIN
'Radio Friendly ___ Shifter' (Nirvana) UNIT
'Skyfall' star CRAIG
'Sneaky little bugger' OHO
'This is Spinal Tap,' e.g SPOOF
'Treme' town, for short NOLA
'___ racist!' THATS
Areas belonging to no country SEAS
Award won by the play '4000 Miles' OBIE
Beantown hub LOGAN
Beast with a prominent horn RHINO
Beast with two prominent horns IBEX
Beer, often CHASER
Big Mac alternative, every so often MCRIB
Big name in basketball magazines SLAM
Black Panther Bobby SEALE
Blood KIN
Bones's bridgemate MRSULU
Bullshit BILGE
Campaign purchases ADS
Celebrity chef Matsuhisa NOBU
Challenge ONUS
Common video game milieu WAR
Computer built under the code name 'Project PX' ENIAC
Decides OPTS
Device for losers? SCALE
Dodge work MALINGER
Enrollee JOINER
Exile island ELBA
Ground zero on Black Friday MALL
He played Gandolfini's son ILER
Instant coffee brand SANKA
It greatly improves Animal Collective records LSD
Clues Answers
It may be blown onstage OBOE
Kathie Lee's intellectual passion? GIFFORDFOCUS
Kirsten of 'Melancholia' DUNST
Las Vegas resort with a musical name ARIA
Like many a college grad, nowadays INDEBT
Like someone butting in about unlikely but necessary hypotheticals? BIGIFCURIOUS
Mozart opera, familiarly FIGARO
Mr. Mojo ____ (anagrammatic nickname of Jim Morrison) RISIN
Mumford & Sons style FOLK
Natural fence HEDGE
Nuke deliverer [The AV xword goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] ICBM
One may be in a cast LIMB
Only black child in 'South Park' TOKEN
Oxford American Dictionary's 2012 word of the year, and the key to this puzzle's theme GIF
People of will? HEIRS
Prop room neckpiece BOA
Read (over) PORED
Respectful refusal NOSIR
Retained KEPT
Ride at a stand TAXI
Roll in the hay ROMP
Rom-com, e.g GENRE
Sadat who signed a peace treaty with Israel (sigh) ANWAR
Search for the perfect wave, say SURF
Serve DOFOR
Shot from behind the arc THREE
Spelunker's need LAMP
Tattoo artist's needleful INK
The Pet Shop Boys' politely named debut album PLEASE
They come with a Happy Meal FRIES
Took a wrong turn, say ERRED
Tool used by phishers SPAM
Vanna White, in her day? GIFTEDTURNER
Where the office meets the bar? TGIFJUNCTION
Wii U and others CONSOLES
World Toilet Day org UNICEF
___ Skip Day SENIOR