New York Times - Dec 23 2008

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'Awesome!' RAD
'Boom' preceder, in song TARARA
'Look what ___!' IDID
'Norma ___' RAE
'Please ___' (invoice request) REMIT
'___ dieu!' MON
A Turner TED
Actor Kilmer and others VALS
Actress Conn DIDI
Ancient Roman magistrate EDILE
Arizona locale famous for its red rocks SEDONA
Backside, slangily PRAT
Badge flasher: Abbr. DET
Balkan native SLAV
Battery poles ANODES
Biblical landing site ARARAT
Cabinet dept. ENER
City in California or New Jersey LODI
City of 100,000+ or the lake it's on ERIE
Coup d'___ ETAT
Critic, at times RATER
Criticizes RAPS
Dah's counterpart DIT
Descartes who thought 'I think ...' RENE
Dug MINED
Easy pace TROT
Eat by candlelight, say DINE
Engine additive STP
Fight, but not all-out SPAR
Firm up SET
Gallery on the Thames TATE
Game with matchsticks NIM
Hasn't left ISIN
Have ___ with (know well) ANIN
iPod type NANO
It's a wrap DIAPER
Jazz singer Simone NINA
La preceder TRA
Libel, e.g. TORT
Limerick land EIRE
Liquid meas. PTS
Made good on, as a loan REPAID
Main course only NOSIDE
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Medical suffix OMA
Monique ou Dominique NOM
Moses vis-à-vis the Red Sea PARTER
MS. enclosure SASE
Not final, at law NISI
Object of many screams IDOL
Oklahoma city ENID
One with absolutely no manners ANIMAL
Parisian possessive TES
Part of Q.E.D. ERAT
Part of some joints TENON
Patriotic org. DAR
Pave over RETAR
Plopped (down) SAT
Policy of many hotel shuttles NOTIPS
Prescription abbr. TID
Rain check? TARP
Ring setting EAR
Rocket scientist Wernher ___ Braun VON
Screenwriter Ephron and others DELIAS
Season opener? MID
Seine sight ILE
Shade of blue DENIM
Show utter disrespect for SPITON
Skip over ELIDE
Snare again RETRAP
Staff again REMAN
Start of a Latin 101 conjugation AMO
Stove feature TIMER
Technique ART
Thanksgiving time: Abbr. NOV
The Wizard of Menlo Park EDISON
Thin layer LAMINA
Those, in Madrid ESAS
Three trios NONET
Title giver NAMER
Unfavorable DIM
Unit of cell phone usage: Abbr. MIN
Univ. aides TAS
Weight allowance TARE
Went smoothly SAILED
Whitney after whom Whitneyville, Conn., is named ELI
___ even keel ONAN