New York Times - Dec 25 2005

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Clues Answers
'Ben-___' HUR
'Capeesh?' DIG
'Dunno' SEARCHME
'Get your hands off me!' HEY
'Good grief!' HRRORS
'I kiss'd thee ___ kill'd thee': Othello EREI
'It is the night of ___ dear Savior's birth' OUR
'Just hear ___ sleigh bells jingling …' THSE
16-Down's desire SALE
1936 Olympics star OWENS
1983 World Series winners over the Phillies ORIOLES
A list of the A-list WHSWH
About half of table salt, chemically ANIONS
Almond Joy nuts, perhaps CHCAHLICS
Assn. and org. SYNS
Attended WASAT
Backyard game HRSESHES
Berth place MARINA
Big Ten inits. PSU
Biting ACID
Blowing away AWING
Breakfast cereal BRAN
Breezed through ACED
Bum place to stay? HBOCAMP
Calgary-to-Edmonton dir. NNE
Can't take ABHR
Capital of Somme AMIENS
Chevrolet model TAHE
Chief Jack House and others UTES
Coeur d'___ ALENE
Cold War side NATO
Contribute PAYIN
Course for course preparers HMEEC
Creaky, maybe AGED
Cubism pioneer Juan GRIS
Cultural character ETHS
Diner on 'Alice' MELS
Director Jean-___ Godard LUC
Director ___ C. Kenton ERLE
Doesn't touch again STAYSOFF
Doo-wop syllable SHA
Drew on USED
Driver's opportunity TEESHT
Drops off WANES
Elementary school trio RRR
Ending with tele- THN
Excessive suavity OILINESS
Fictional wirehair ASTA
First name in Egyptian politics HSNI
Fishermen bring them back to shore YARNS
Fly with a long proboscis TSETSE
Foie ___ GRAS
Foofaraws HOHAS
Footwear name THMMCAN
Free ATLARGE
Garb for 2-Down TOGA
Gazetteer data AREAS
General breakout ACNE
Get by PASS
Give a little BEND
Godiva product TRUFFLE
Greek HELLENE
Handel bars? HALLELUJAHCHRUS
Health, in Le Havre SANTE
Heroes HAGIES
History chapters ERAS
Hold forth ORATE
Hurdle for future docs MCAT
In ___ (worked up) APET
Invoice no. AMT
Clues Answers
Juju and mojo AMULETS
Laments loudly ULULATES
Learn via a third party HEAROF
Levels, briefly KOS
Lies low HLESUP
List TILT
Lots of sissies? ESSES
Ltr. afterthoughts PSS
Make out SEE
Makes right AMENDS
Mantel LEDGE
Mayberry kid OPIE
Merry sound of the season HHH
Mohawk-sporting actor MRT
Multitude HST
Mus. increase in volume CRES
Nether world TARTARUS
New York City park name RIIS
Nickname for the young Darth Vader ANI
Not even ASLOPE
Off ERRING
Off course ASTRAY
Old dinero PESETAS
Old propaganda source TASS
One working close to Washington? ADAMS
Paris pops PERES
Pelé's org., once NASL
People aren't usually drawn to this SCALE
Place in a Robert Redford flick ETTA
Poet who wrote 'I have executed a memorial longer lasting than bronze' HRACE
Polish port GDANSK
Popular drink mix NESTEA
Pounding parts PEENS
Prepares for a ride STRAPSIN
Prepares, as chestnuts ROASTS
Present seeker CHRISTMASSHPPER
Quoits pegs HBS
Red and blue PURPLE
Render helpless HGTIE
Restaurant chain since '58 IHP
Richie's mother, to the Fonz MRSC
Saint-Germain's river SEINE
Santa has a red and white one HAT
Season's greetings HAPPYHLIDAYS
Sights AIMS
Simba's love in 'The Lion King' NALA
Sink SCUTTLE
Snake in the grass RAT
Some credit card security features HLOGRAMS
Son of Mary Stuart JAMESI
Source of a little laughter SAINTNICHLAS
Speaker systems, briefly PAS
Sports org. north of the border CFL
Stable place STALL
Start of a 1940's-60's world leader's name HCHI
Strip UNROBE
Suffix with Ecuador EAN
Sum parts ADDENDS
Terse truths APHRISMS
Thistlelike plant TEASEL
Too rehearsed PAT
Unwrap impatiently TEAROPEN
Vehicles that may be under the Yuletide tree CHOCHOTRAINS
Virginia, once COLONY
Waiting for a pickup ONHLD
Way in or out DUCT
West Coast airport inits. SFO
Winter frosts HARS
With freedom of tempo RUBATO
Yule decorations BOUGHSOFHLLY