Universal - Dec 24 2001

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Clues Answers
''--- the night before Christmas ...'' TWAS
''A nest of robins --- hair'' INHER
''Born'' literally NEE
''Miss Saigon'' setting, briefly NAM
''Take --- Train'' (Duke Ellington) THEA
''The Stilt'' Chamberlain WILT
Aardvark entree ANT
Abbr. on a VCR button REC
Ambient musician Brian ENO
Arabian monarchy OMAN
Artist Toulouse-Lautrec HENRI
Asian maidservant AMAH
Band that sang ''Carol'' STATUSQUO
Band that sang ''Oh Carol'' BOYZONE
Biker's hot-dog maneuver WHEELIE
Brie and Limburger CHEESES
Burning desire? ARSON
Capture the attention of GRAB
Cinches the win ICES
Cole Porter's Indiana hometown PERU
Cowpoke's nickname TEX
Dangerous answer to a sentry FOE
Direct hit BULLSEYE
Dustin Hoffman title role HOOK
Engine lubricant MOTOROIL
Faith of Nashville HILL
Feature of Little Shirley Temple CURL
Fledgling flier's goal SOLO
Fred Mertz, to Lucy Ricardo LANDLORD
Funny feeling HUNCH
Get through to REACH
Goes to ATTENDS
Greenhorn NEOPHYTE
Gunpowder ingredient SULFUR
Have differing opinions DISAGREE
He sang ''Carol'' ALSTEWART
He sang ''Carol'' CHUCKBERRY
He sang ''Oh! Carol'' NEILSEDAKA
High mark with low effort EASYA
Clues Answers
High point APEX
Horsehide's gridiron counterpart PIGSKIN
Hullabaloo HOOHA
Jim of ''Wide World of Sports'' MCKAY
Knight-time? YORE
Knocks for a loop STUNS
Lao-tzu's ''way'' TAO
List-ending wds. ETAL
Lower, as prices SLASH
Lunchtime for Gary Cooper? HIGHNOON
Marine shade AQUA
Mineo or Maglie SAL
Ominous alternative ELSE
One attending Yale ELI
Passing fancies WHIMS
Patricia Neal's Best Actress film HUD
Prefix with Disney or dollar EURO
Pull an all-nighter CRAM
Rights advocacy org. ACLU
Roll of bills WAD
Russian retreat DACHA
Sainted mother of Constantine HELENA
Straightaway NOW
Sun protection SHADE
That's a Kroc! RAY
The loneliest number, in song ONE
They may be little and white LIES
Thirteen, to some bakers DOZEN
Thunderstruck INAWE
Tortoise's competitor HARE
Tropical starch source TARO
Unmixed, at a mixer NEAT
Vaccine developer Jonas SALK
Western alliance formed in 1949 NATO
Wile E. Coyote's supply company ACME
Winner's position ONTOP
Wintry downpour SLEET
Word in an octagon STOP
___-Magnon (prehistoric man) CRO