Newsday.com - Dec 10 2006

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Clues Answers
''NYPD Blue'' creator BOCHCO
''Steady __ goes'' ASSHE
''__ does it!'' THAT
''__ Gay'' (WWII plane) ENOLA
'40s First Dog FALA
'70s tennis star ASHE
10-point Scrabble piece ZTILE
45 Across' alma mater UCLA
Abolitionist author STOWE
Actress Downey ROMA
Age ERA
Ashton Kutcher film of 2000 DUDEWHERESMYCAR
At work again BACKINTHESADDLE
Avoid STEERCLEAROF
Battery terminal ANODE
Become one UNITE
Bird-feeder filler SUET
Boombox button AMFM
Buttonless shirt TEE
Calculator button MINUS
Cary Grant's original surname LEACH
Chalkiness PALLOR
Chants INTONES
Chartres chum AMI
City near Kyoto OSAKA
Cloister chief ABBOT
Composer Schifrin LALO
Computer-network connection INTERFACE
Cookie-jar raider NOSHER
Currently in HOT
Day's halfway mark NOON
Detachment of soldiers UNIT
Diamond Head locale OAHU
Dinghy blade OAR
Distribute, with ''out'' METE
Dollop DAB
Done with RIDOF
Farming prefix AGRI
Fells HEWS
Fictional bell town ADANO
First name in whodunits ERLE
Flexible sword FOIL
Follow, as an impulse ACTON
French wine region MEDOC
Futile NOUSE
Gene Autry pics OATERS
General Bradley OMAR
Green Bay's st. WISC
Green sauce PESTO
Guitar booster AMP
Gymnastics apparatus POMMELHORSE
Gyro bread PITA
Hem and __ HAW
Hide-covered boat UMIAK
High-strung EDGY
HQ for F-16's AFB
Imbibe to excess TOPE
In good shape TONED
Indigenous Alaskans ALEUTS
Informal refusal NAW
Instant-replay effect SLOMO
It bested Betamax VHS
Jedi teacher YODA
Junkyard dog's greeting GRR
Kabob rod SKEWER
Kiddie corral PLAYPEN
Laid up ILL
Lake near Carson City TAHOE
Lax REMISS
Leaving dumbstruck AWING
Lester of bluegrass FLATT
Like Aztecan society THEOCRATIC
Like some tides NEAP
Clues Answers
Long-armed ape ORANGUTAN
Lunar plain SEA
Make lovable ENDEAR
Mall convenience: Abbr. ATM
Marketing department's focus BRANDLOYALTY
Meshlike NETTY
Mexican munchie TACO
Minister, briefly REV
Molten rock LAVA
Money-saving, in product names ECONO
Mongol marauder TATAR
Monopoly expense RENT
Montague teen ROMEO
Mound PILE
Mr. Potato Head piece LIPS
Muffin topper OLEO
Musical Crow SHERYL
Nabokov novel ADA
Nation on two continents KAZAKHSTAN
Needs a bib DROOLS
Nemesis FOE
Not premeditated SPUROFTHEMOMENT
Not-so-popular Ford EDSEL
Novelist Harper LEE
Page with essays OPED
Pay tribute to HONOR
Physicist Fermi ENRICO
Plow into RAM
Popeye's girl OLIVE
Popular Ford, to admirers TBIRD
Practiced, as a trade PLIED
Proton spot ATOM
Provide staff for MAN
Radio, to a CBer EARS
Reached a goal MADEIT
Reside DWELL
Retired PUTOUTTOPASTURE
Sandwich-counter orders BLTS
School of whales GAM
Science of sound ACOUSTICS
Seventh-day Christmas gift SWANS
Shed tears CRY
Simoleons MOOLAH
Sixth James Bond novel DRNO
Snooze NAP
Sort of star DWARF
Spacious ROOMY
Spicy bowlful CHILI
Spirit of a people ETHOS
Staff sgt., for one NCO
Steals, slangily PINCHES
Stout detective WOLFE
Suspect's story ALIBI
Swell up BLOAT
Tear asunder REND
That, to Toms ESO
They're checked at bars IDS
Thin nail BRAD
Threshing tool FLAIL
Toward the stern AFT
Train designation LOCAL
Turf section SOD
Type of squash ACORN
U.S. immigrant's subj. ESL
Unequivocal DOWNRIGHT
Univ. in Troy, NY RPI
University founder Stanford LELAND
Unrefined RAW
Vault LEAP
Veal style MARSALA
Wagner heroine ELSA
Yellowfin tuna AHI
__ David (Israeli flag symbol) MOGEN