Newsday.com - Dec 8 2012

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Clues Answers
''Ah!'' ISEE
''Born Free'' author ADAMSON
Anagram of ''gyrated'' TRAGEDY
Antlered animal STAG
Approve of ENDORSE
Author of a 50-million copy best seller DRSPOCK
Ava, in ''The Aviator'' KATE
Barbell exercise SQUAT
Bars on some boxes UPC
Betting settings RACES
Brand owned by Clorox SOS
Buddy PAISANO
Caddy's holding TEA
Chinese zodiac beast ROOSTER
City east-northeast of Venice TRIESTE
Clamors ROARS
Comcast purchase of 2011 NBC
Contend VIE
Creative one STYLIST
Creative ones ARTISTS
Discordance NOISE
Discordant JARRING
Earth DIRT
Emmy winner as a ''Roots'' ship captain EDASNER
Engages fully ABSORBS
Erode EATINTO
Exclude BAR
Expression for the sheepish GRIN
Firefighters' descriptor BRAVEST
Flashing lights STROBES
Forebode PORTEND
Furthest from aloof NOSIEST
Honey DARLING
It may be fishing NET
Its disappearance aided bald eagles DDT
Knight at the movies JEDI
Clues Answers
Lead balloon, so to speak BADIDEA
Minimally ATAD
Ne'er-do-well CUR
Need somnoplasty, perhaps SNORE
Nth degree HILT
Old-fashioned ANTIQUE
One caught in a trap SPEEDER
Onetime Einstein home BERNE
Part of UNESCO's address ORG
Pistachio portion DIP
Place of privacy RETREAT
Place with a theater and bowling alley, maybe MANSION
Plain speaking PROSE
Pretty soon JANUARY
Recycling candidate SCRAP
Rescue dog, for example ADOPTEE
Reservation proof ETICKET
Rest, with ''by'' LIE
Screened over RERAN
Seat of Orange County ORLANDO
See 44 Down SCHUMER
Send back, in a way REELECT
Show contempt for SNORTAT
Small, in brief LIL
Start of a Genesis query AMI
Studio stack SCRIPTS
Team __ USA
The eyes may have it MASCARA
The very beginning YEARONE
Thing with a foot and a neck URN
Third most-populous English-speaking American nation JAMAICA
Where Bing Crosby grew up SPOKANE
Will set one back COSTS
With 37 Down, Judiciary Committee member SENATOR
Word from the Latin for ''is lacking'' CARET
Works together PAIRS