Boston Globe - Dec 27 2009

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Clues Answers
'Categorical imperative' man KANT
'Don't fight' BENICE
'Explain these Fs!'? HOWAREYOUFAILING
'Get outta here!' SCOOT
'Impressive!' OOH
'Julie & Julia' actor Stanley TUCCI
'Les __-Unis' ETATS
'Sesame Street' curmudgeon OSCAR
'The Hobbit' hero BILBO
'The world will little note...what __ here' WESAY
'Tootsie' Oscar winner LANGE
'__ circumstances...' DUETO
'__ Joy' ODETO
1970 Newman/Woodward film WUSA
1970s Renault LECAR
1984 and 1776, for ex. YRS
2005 horror sequel SAWII
4, on a keypad GHI
A chorus line? TRALA
Actor Diggs TAYE
Addamses' assistant THING
All you can dig? SPADELIMIT
Amphetamine UPPER
Animal life FAUNA
Antietam general LEE
Art able to CANST
Avocation HOBBY
Bar order? BOURBONSTRAIGHT
Be a stoolie SING
Belmonts' lead DION
Billboards ADS
Boulogne bird OISEAU
BP brand AMOCO
Break in the day NAP
Brooding sort? HEN
Brutus's 'behold' ECCE
Bygone toilet-cleaner brand BLOO
Cable-guide abbr. FAM
Cock and bull? MALES
Commit solemnly DEVOTE
Compound number? ETHER
Deep black JET
Devil dogs MARINES
Dickens's Mr. Heep URIAH
Dickinson and Post EMILYS
Disney classic BAMBI
Doc __ (foe of Spidey) OCK
Dome-shaped tent YURT
Egg-rich dessert TORTE
Everglades wader EGRET
Expiate ATONE
External OUTER
Extra-large KINGSIZED
Falco of 'Nurse Jackie' EDIE
Farm horse DOBBIN
Find on the dial TUNETO
Fit for farming ARABLE
Flipping option TAILS
Foot, in zoology PES
Former Virginia senator ROBB
Freight weight TON
Gen-__ XER
Hackneyed TIRED
Half of 'sei' TRE
Heckelphone's kin OBOE
Hidden problem CATCH
Hitcher's hope RIDE
Hold sway RULE
Hudson River town NYACK
Hurdles for future D.A.'s LSATS
Immobilized FROZE
Clues Answers
Initial readings? ACROSTICS
Intending to GONNA
Iron man? ROBOT
It never ends CIRCLE
Job forerunner ESTHER
John's 'Grease' costar OLIVIA
Kasparov coup MATE
Lady of Spain SENORA
Last Olds model ALERO
Lets off some steam COOLS
Lineage ROOTS
Little louse NIT
Load CARGO
Maestro Masur KURT
Margarita garnish SALT
Matadors' attackers TOROS
Medley links SEGUES
Myopic cartoon character MAGOO
Noodles PASTA
Norms (Abbr.) STDS
Not at all like HATE
Not much ATAD
Oulu natives FINNS
Paint unskillfully DAUB
Pep-rally cries YAYS
Polio-vaccine developer SABIN
Pub in a wheat field? TAVERNONTHEGRAIN
Punk-rock subgenre EMO
Questionable FISHY
Quotidian DAILY
Rain clouds NIMBI
Red as __ ABEET
Resort city of British Columbia COURTENAY
Salon sweepings HAIR
Salve targets SORES
Science-class site LAB
Scouting outing RECON
See 56 Across UNCLE
See 59 Down ATHOU
Selection screen MENU
Shakespeare's shrew KATE
Shuffleboard stick CUE
Silhouette? BLACKSHAPE
Slack-jawed AGAPE
Solving time? PACEOFTHEPUZZLE
Some tarsal bones CUBOIDS
Stand and deliver? ORATE
Stowe gear SKIS
Summertime pest GNAT
Symphony key, perh. EMAJ
Tailless breed MANX
Tango moves DIPS
Ten of these equal 12 Down CNOTES
They make diet cola gush MENTOS
This clue's position END
Threw in ADDED
Toppers HATS
Transparent GAUZY
Unlikely trick-takers THREES
Vicinity AREA
Voice of Scar in 'The Lion King' IRONS
Wakefield figure VICAR
Weather-map line ISOBAR
Welcome, perhaps SEEIN
Wellies, e.g. BOOTS
Whopper LIE
Why dry grapes? FORONERAISINORANOTHER
With 47 Down, stern admonisher DUTCH
Writer __ Rogers St. Johns ADELA
Wrote off gradually AMORTIZED
__ the crack of dawn UPAT