New York Times - Dec 1 2006

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'Cómo es ___?' ('How come?,' in Córdoba) ESO
'Herman' cartoonist Jim UNGER
'Interesting …' HMM
'Maybe' ILLSEE
'Seriously!' IMEANIT
'You looking ___?' ATME
A spade, e.g. BID
Begin operating, datewise OPENON
Big royalty generator HIT
Blanket artisan NAVAHO
Blip ANOMALY
BOOM PROSPER
Bribe SOP
Bring down ABASE
Calm ALLAY
Cannonball Adderley played it ALTOSAX
Celebrated smiler MONALISA
Close watcher EAGLEEYE
Coin part REVERSE
Cold symptom REDNOSE
Comic collected in 'The Chickens Are Restless,' with 'The' FARSIDE
Comment when no one is up ITSATIE
Division du Mexique ETAT
Even as we speak JUSTNOW
Express disapproval HISS
Failed to be WERENT
FedEx pickup: Abbr. PKG
Fleet that was very fleet SSTS
Follower of Mao? TSE
Foods with fillings TARTS
Gasteyer of 'Mean Girls' ANA
Glass component RIM
Grant VEST
Grass alternative CLAY
Gusto JOIEDEVIVRE
High-priority task MUSTDO
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High-school class, informally ECON
Hit Japanese TV import IRONCHEF
It goes around at a construction site CEMENTMIXER
Like some bridges ONELANE
Manager of a two-party system? NOAH
Many a posting NOTICE
Match, for one IGNITER
Not fixed MOVABLE
One reporting to a capt. CMDR
One-room schoolhouse features INKWELLS
Paltry payment CENT
Part of a B major scale ASHARP
Part of a snicker HEE
Place to put buttons ELEVATOR
Plant container VAT
Rap BLAME
Red Cross mission AID
Reduced sentence, maybe FINE
School composition THEME
Scratch MAR
Screen HIDE
Short course SOUP
Slave TOILER
Some snoops TMEN
Stick alternatives ROLLONS
Tassels, e.g. TRIM
Tethered ONAROPE
They're acquired in some unions STEPSONS
Town SE of Sacramento IONE
Turn on the waterworks BAWL
Ukrainian hub LVOV
Valentine for Valéry AMIE
Where to taste tostones TAPASBAR
You can bet on it TRIFECTA
___ case INNO
___ Miguel SAN