Newsday.com - Dec 19 2010

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Clues Answers
''Alas!'' AHME
''Arabian Nights'' lamb? ALIBAABAA
''Crème-crème'' connector DELA
''Dire'' situations STRAITS
''English'' course LIT
''Message received'' GOTIT
''The Bell Jar'' author PLATH
1, 2, 3, etc. NUMERALS
A few good crows? MARINECAW
Accent STRESS
Approximately, with 2 Down ONOR
Bandy words SPAR
Basketball, informally HOOPS
Be deceitful to GULL
Befuddled ATSEA
Bishop toppers MITERS
Bless, with ''on'' SMILE
Boston's river CHARLES
Bump into MEET
Canine News Network anchor? WOOFBLITZER
Cat of the year? PURRANNUM
Church section APSE
Coin-toss call TAILS
Complains loudly WAILS
Daily grind RATRACE
Damascus is its capital SYRIA
Deep cut GASH
Distort SKEW
Drink slowly NURSE
Easels STANDS
End successfully PANOUT
Epochs ERAS
Extend STRETCH
Fill fully SATE
Filled with promise ROSY
Fire sign SMOKE
Flaxen fabric LINEN
Formal speech ADDRESS
Foul matter FILTH
Fourteen pounds, in Liverpool STONE
Gather up AMASS
Genie's largesse WISH
Greek vowels ETAS
Grocery-box abbr. NETWT
Grouchy guy CRAB
Gymnast Mary __ Retton LOU
Harry's successor IKE
Hat part BRIM
Helps out ASSISTS
Henhouse motto? TALKISCHEEP
Hopes earnestly PRAYS
How to refer to a serpentine jurist? HISSHONOR
Ill temper BILE
Incantation beginning ABRA
Indian currency RUPEE
Industrialist Perot ROSS
Informal farewell TATA
Jackson Hole scenery TETONS
Jousting weapon LANCE
Just for one EACH
Kirsten of ''Spider-Man'' DUNST
Leaf gatherer RAKE
Least friendly ICIEST
Less lofty LOWER
Like doilies LACY
Major rds. HWYS
Manipulated one PAWN
Michelangelo masterpiece PIETA
Mold filler GELATIN
More than generous LAVISH
Motel room UNIT
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Move furtively SNEAK
Name on a spine TITLE
National Poetry Month APRIL
Needing a plumber LEAKY
Nonstandard negative NAW
Obligation ONUS
Obstetricians' org. AMA
Of ocean motion TIDAL
Oklahoma city ENID
Pantry pests ANTS
Pays out SPENDS
Peel, with ''off'' FLAKE
Pessimistic equine? NEIGHSAYER
Pigeon's last shot? COODEGRACE
Plays for time STALLS
Predisposition BIAS
Prickly plant BRIER
Professional performer, for instance ARTIST
Prom, for one DANCE
Quagmire MORASS
Radio producer on ''Frasier'' ROZ
Range's flame PILOT
Really like DIG
Rendered inoperable BROKE
Return-mail enc. SASE
Rise up REBEL
Roof support JOIST
Run through, as a debit card SWIPE
Secretary of Education Duncan ARNE
See 65 Down ABOUT
Self-satisfied SMUG
Shade of purple LILAC
Short piece of classical music SONATINA
Shower by-product STEAM
Sixth sense, so to speak RADAR
SLEEPY TIRED
Slick OILY
Source of pink applesauce MCINTOSH
Sphere starter HEMI
Stein fillers ALES
Stenographers' needs PADS
Suffix meaning ''racecourse'' DROME
Swashbuckling activity DUELING
Swear AVER
Tale of woe SOBSTORY
Taxi passengers FARES
Tennis arbiters UMPS
Tennis pro Sharapova MARIA
Term of respect SIR
The bad guys FOES
The neighbor's kids BRATS
Tie-on topper BONNET
Traditional Kentucky Derby drinks JULEPS
Two-point gridiron plays SAFETIES
Type of tea PEKOE
UK record label EMI
Under, in poems NEATH
United TOGETHER
Upper limit CAP
Uproar ADO
Urban districts WARDS
VIP's wheels LIMO
Washbowls BASINS
Watergate participant LIDDY
Waterproof coverings TARPS
What Simon calls Garfunkel ARTIE
Wherever you are HERE
Woodworking tool PLANE
Word often preceding ''sanctum'' INNER
Writer Bombeck ERMA
__ all-time high ATAN