Newsday.com - Jan 23 2011

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Clues Answers
''. . . __ iron bars a cage'' NOR
''American Dad!'' dad STAN
''For __ a jolly good . . .'' HES
''I Love Lucy'' star ARNAZ
''King'' crawler COBRA
''Live and learn'' CHALKITUPTOEXPERIENCE
''Possibly'' IMAY
''Simpsons'' bartender MOE
''Survivor'' network CBS
''That's awful!'' UGH
''The Constant Gardener'' author LECARRE
''Woe is me!'' ALAS
''__ favor'' (please, to Ruiz) POR
Abu Dhabi leader EMIR
Acapulco aunt TIA
Actor Reeves KEANU
Adorn unnecessarily GILD
Alan Ladd western SHANE
Angelic auras HALOS
Auto-club service TOW
Baseball stats. RBIS
Best-available group ATEAM
Biblical letter EPISTLE
Bogged down MIRED
Bovine bellow MOO
Brief rage FAD
British Conservative TORY
Broadcasting now ONAIR
Broccoli portion SPEAR
Brought down ABASED
Cartoonist Keane BIL
Celestial streaker COMET
Checked for quality TRIED
Chou __ (Mao colleague) ENLAI
City of Yemen ADEN
Company car, e.g. PERK
Concerning INRE
Construction projects ROADS
Contributes to a football pileup LEAPSON
Coral formations ATOLLS
Costco competitor SAMS
Counting-rhyme starter EENY
Court order WRIT
Cultural attraction MUSEUM
Customary USUAL
Customer list CLIENTELE
Dedicated composition ODE
Dilutes THINS
Dinner reservation, often TABLEFORTWO
Director's soundtrack instruction CUETHEMUSIC
Double curve ESS
Driving-test ritual UTURN
End of Horner's boast AMI
Enthusiastic reviews RAVES
Entice LURE
Erodes EATSAT
Extremity END
Farmers, at times HOERS
Filmed relative of 17 Down ANIME
Firefighting danger BACKDRAFT
Focus of some gym reps ABS
Forceps kin PLIERS
Galileo Airport locale PISA
Gem from Australia OPAL
Gives the thumbs-up OKS
Gyro bread PITA
Hand over PRESENT
Hypnotist's encouragement SLEEP
Imitating APING
Italian cheese ASIAGO
Japanese comic-book genre MANGA
Job opening SLOT
Language that gave us ''safari'' SWAHILI
Clues Answers
Large quantity HOST
Largely MUCH
Lasting impressions SCARS
Law-enforcement challenge CRIMEWAVE
Legal language LATIN
Let the cat out? UNBAG
Like a 123 Across ARID
Like some blankets WOOLEN
Loses color PALES
Loses energy SAGS
Low-rain region DESERT
Made amends ATONED
Main idea POINT
Makes illegal BANS
Metaphorical marcher TIME
Mo. with no holidays AUG
Much of ''Deck the Halls'' LAS
No longer current PASSE
No-frills BASIC
No-parking area REDZONE
Pal of Tigger POOH
PC alternatives MACS
Phone-bk. listings NOS
Prefix for stop NON
Prepared to drive TEED
Printer's proofs REPROS
Prolonged attack SIEGE
Promotional ploy TIEIN
Raison d'__ ETRE
Ready to try something else BORED
River of Spain EBRO
Rooms with libraries, often DENS
Russian word for ''council'' SOVIET
Sacred ceremony RITE
Serve as a temporary fix BRIDGETHEGAP
Shattering aftermath PIECES
Shipping container CRATE
Sign of satisfaction GRIN
Since 1/1: Abbr. YTD
Slight color TINGE
Small book POCKETEDITION
Small hopper TOAD
Smartphone download APP
Something to build on PLOT
Soul singer Lou RAWLS
Special burden BALLANDCHAIN
Spherical hair AFRO
Sports HASON
Squared up EVEN
Staged without a break ONEACT
Stand high TOWER
Start the bidding OPEN
Steer clear of AVOID
Subject of Genesis 6-8 ARK
Symbol of potential ACORN
Tab add-ons TIPS
Tarzan's transport VINE
Testing rooms LABS
The Marx Brothers, in ''Monkey Business'' STOWAWAYS
They may clash at work EGOS
Think really hard RACKONESBRAIN
Thinks the world of ADORES
Tot's diversion TOY
Unrefined find ORE
Upturn RISE
Was on a ticket RAN
Waterproof covering TARP
Wish undone RUE
Yankee Stadium site BRONX
__ Dame NOTRE
__ de Cologne EAU
__ Mountains (Russian range) URAL
__-di-dah LAH