New York Times - Dec 17 2005

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Clues Answers
'Les Femmes Savantes' playwright MOLIERE
'Livin' With the Blues' singer ODETTA
'___, danke' NEIN
4.19 joules CALORIE
Anthony Trollope's '___ Finn' PHINEAS
As luck would have it BYMERESTCHANCE
Bovine hybrid BEEFALO
Brave WARRIOR
Build up MOUNT
Buzzards OLDMEN
Content between intermissions SET
Covers INSURES
Crank NUT
Cry out EXCLAIM
Cuba libre ingredient COLA
Director of 'The Ladykillers,' 2004 COEN
Entertainer nicknamed 'The Abdominal Showman' GLEASON
First name in Mideast politics YASIR
Focaccia topping SALT
French word for 'kitchen' CUISINE
Friend of Tigger ROO
Glow LUMINESCE
Gravestone abbr. INMEM
Groups ASSORTS
Headsail JIB
House builder's purchase LOT
Isn't going anywhere IDLES
It may be a step up DAIS
Language of Indochina LAO
Life-saving operations RESCUEMISSIONS
Literary flubs MIXEDMETAPHORS
Longfellow's Hiawatha, e.g. OJIBWA
Lotus car model ELISE
Clues Answers
Medium power ESP
More inclined READIER
Natural AFRO
New money EUROS
Nonanalytic APRIORI
Normal habitat ELEMENT
Not at a distance ONSITE
One of the 'Magnificent Seven' LEE
One of the rivers near Three Rivers Stadium OHIO
Org. that battled P. T. Barnum ASPCA
Oscar Mayer unit RASHER
Out of favor (with) INBAD
Pass ENACT
Phased-out Toyotas TERCELS
Piano bar IVORY
Plays with TEASES
Put-up job RUSE
Red on a fire truck ADAIR
Revive BRINGTO
Roll bar? AXLE
Rough place to grow up, with 'the' STREETS
Sang à la Jimmie Rodgers YODELED
Saves every penny SCRIMPS
Scalp RESELL
Signal box controls LEVERS
Some lefties LIBBERS
Theory to explain seafloor spreading PLATETECTONICS
They're inclined to brood HENS
Totally making stuff up INVENTIVE
Turkey tip? LIRA
Uninterrupted space EXPANSE
Wine-tasting consideration AROMA
Word of greeting and parting CIAO