Newsday.com - Dec 6 2009

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Clues Answers
''Borstal Boy'' author BEHAN
''Faust'' writer GOETHE
''Golden __'' (Drake's ship) HIND
''Guys and Dolls'' Tony winner ALDA
''I cannot tell __'' ALIE
''Mad Magazine'' slogan WHATMEWORRY
''Odds __ . . .'' ARE
''Over the Rainbow'' composer ARLEN
''So there!'' HAH
''This looks bad!'' OHNO
10-to-12-year-old TWEEN
Actress Dahl ARLENE
After the buzzer LATE
Airport rental fleet CARS
Annals of history ERAS
Après-ski drink TODDY
Attorney-__ ATLAW
Aussie bounders ROOS
Austrian ski area TYROL
Author credit BYLINE
Ballet bend PLIE
Barracks locale BASE
Be released GOFREE
Behave ACT
Bell sound PEAL
Benchmarks CRITERIA
Berth place WHARF
Best-man ritual TOAST
Biden predecessor CHENEY
Bit of okra POD
Boxcar rider HOBO
Cab Calloway catchphrase HIDEHO
Cad ROUE
Calf catcher LASSO
Cameo, for one ROLE
Candidate's goal SEAT
Carried on, as a battle WAGED
Cause to swell BLOAT
Certain double reeds OBOES
Chews out FLAYS
Circle dance HORA
Clandestine call PSST
Clarification starter THATIS
Classic elocution exercise HOWNOWBROWNCOW
Column counterpart ROW
Combat site ARENA
Copycat's comment SOAMI
Cousteau's bailiwick OCEAN
Crocker of cake mixes BETTY
Crude abode HUT
Curtail CURB
Delinquent GI AWOL
Derisive cries HOOTS
Detach, in a way UNPIN
Diner seating option BOOTH
Disunions SCHISMS
Donald Duck nephew DEWEY
Dracula creator Stoker BRAM
Earnest request PLEA
Erstwhile auto line OLDS
Exert, as influence WIELD
Family nickname MAMA
Family nickname POPPA
Fast-food offering SODA
France's longest river LOIRE
Fritter away WASTE
Game show hosted by Johnny Carson WHODOYOUTRUST
Give a pint, say DONATE
Greene of ''Bonanza'' LORNE
Handle crudely PAW
Hard wind GALE
Holey utensil SIEVE
If all goes right ATBEST
Clues Answers
Insertion mark CARET
Inspires, with ''up'' FIRES
It means ''beyond'' META
Itsy-bitsy TEENY
Jabba the __ HUTT
Jazz singer Anita ODAY
Klutzy sort OAF
Lake in Lombardy COMO
Less than legit SHADY
Like falling off a log EASY
Loretta of ''M*A*S*H'' SWIT
Make uniform, perhaps STIR
Mango's center STONE
Meadow mother EWE
Modest eatery BISTRO
Moo __ pork SHU
Most skillful ABLEST
MSG part MONO
Naval lockup BRIG
Neck of the woods AREA
New wing, perhaps ELL
Nike's headquarters OREGON
No longer a minor GROWN
Not fooled by ONTO
Odist, for one POET
Oil source OLIVE
On the briny ASEA
Perform superbly SHINE
Ph.D. exam ORAL
Poor grade DEE
Practice medicine on TREAT
Practice medicine on CURE
Prefix for natal NEO
Price to play ANTE
Pro __ (proportionately) RATA
Ran into MET
Rescued damsel's cry MYHERO
Road furrows RUTS
Rob of ''The West Wing'' LOWE
Russia's __ Mountains URAL
Scand. land NOR
Science of light OPTICS
Sea dogs TARS
See 22 Across QUESTIONS
Serious offender FELON
Sharp sounds RAPS
Show the ropes to TEACH
Sicilian peak ETNA
Slogan coined in '84 WHERESTHEBEEF
Snappy comebacks RETORTS
Solidifies SETS
Some bucks DEER
Some double reeds BASSOONS
Sundance Festival entry, often INDIE
T-giving day THUR
Taking after ALA
Tap dancer Gregory HINES
Tasty GOOD
Terre __, IN HAUTE
The Mannings of the NFL QBS
Took a break RESTED
Veep who resigned AGNEW
Victory cry WEWIN
Walked through puddles SLOSHED
Wild equine ASS
With 111 Across, subject of the puzzle REPORTERS
Word from the crib DADA
Words after ''Yoo-hoo!'' HEREIAM
Words from the famished WHENDOWEEAT
Words to a glum guy WHYTHELONGFACE
Worth remembering OFNOTE
Wray of ''King Kong'' FAY
__ for the long haul INIT