Wall Street Journal - Dec 20 2002 - December 20, 2002 - I Hear Santa

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Clues Answers
'...or ___ thought' SOI
'Currently serving' military status ONEC
'Star Search' host MCMAHN
'Steady Eddie' of the Yankees LOPAT
'Straight Up' singer ABDUL
'___ deal!' ITSA
'___ it!' ('Get a move on!') HPTO
'___ perpetua' (Idaho motto) ESTO
A good place to be this time of year HMEFORTHEHLIDAYS
A long way off AFAR
A quarter of eight TWO
Annette of 'Smallville' OTOOLE
Arranged in folds DRAPED
As soon as ONCE
Attends in great numbers FLOCKSTO
Bass products SHES
Be attached (to) LATCHN
Be charitable DONATE
Bill Clinton, e.g. RHDESSCHLAR
Breeders' Cup winners THROUGHBREDHRSES
Brief feature ELASTIC
Broadway star Linda EDER
Brown, e.g. IVY
Bumbling INEPT
Capture a king MATE
Catch participant, perhaps DAD
Caterer's job EVENT
Chevy truck TAHE
Chip to dip FRITO
Classic kid's book since 1954 HRTONHEARSAWH
Comic actor Leary DENIS
Course clinker BAFF
Course hazards TRAPS
Decks KOS
Dumas dueler ATHS
Early times DAWNS
Emphatic turndown IMEANNO
Encouragement for 'la fiesta brava' OLE
Enough room to swing ___ ACAT
Even a little ATALL
Family CLAN
Famous last words ETTU
Fashion designer Hardy ___ AMIES
Fast way to the UK SST
Florid ORNATE
Food court site MALL
Footnote abbr. ETAL
Forculus or Limentinus HUSEHLDGOD
Forest females DOES
Friend of Eminem DRE
Fuss ADO
Gershwin's first hit SWANEE
Guinness and Baldwin ALECS
Hardly NOT
Hitter of 511 homers OTT
Hollywood giants EGOS
Home of the Tonton Macoutes HAITI
Hurdle for prospective JDs LSAT
IBM, e.g. CORP
Involves ENTAILS
It brought Hope to GIs USO
Jam or pickle MESS
Jeans name LEE
Kind of blocker BETA
Lady of the haus FRAU
Loaf at the deli RYE
Longtime first name at ABC News ROONE
Looks to buy SHPSFOR
Louvre collection RENOIRS
Meathead's mother-in-law EDITH
More than dislike ABHR
Murder mystery ingredients TWISTS
Clues Answers
Nesquik alternative BOSCO
Niger neighbor MALI
No place for a certain peg ROUNDHLE
Noted positive thinker PEALE
Novelist Susan ISAACS
Office bigwig EXEC
Old Chevy NOVA
Option with no real alternative HBSONSCHICE
Overseas agreement OUI
Packer's accessory SHULDERHLSTER
Playwright Fugard ATHL
Pluck MOXIE
Polar assistant ELF
Polite address MADAM
Polynesian porches LANAIS
Pool part GENE
Present for a young conductor CHOCHOTRAIN
Proof of the pudding? PLUM
Provider of Escort service FORD
Quarantine ENISLE
Question asked innocently WHME
Quitter's cry UNCLE
Residence ABODE
Responsibility ONUS
Richard Schiff's role on 'The West Wing' TOBY
Ring activity BOUT
Rugged ridges ARETES
Sad sounds SOBS
Sawbones MEDICO
Schubert's 'Die ___ Müllerin' SCHNE
See 126-Across OLIN
Send again REMAIL
Serves well done ACES
Shell food TACOS
Shell group OARS
Shouted disapproval HOTED
Silver State city RENO
Small-time gambler TINHRN
Souvenir, e.g. REMINDER
Sq., for example RECT
Stand-up's stock BITS
Starbuck's boss AHAB
State bird of Hawaii NENE
Station name ESSO
Sue who played Lolita LYON
Sun dance performers ARAPAH
Tabula ___ RASA
Teller's spot CAGE
The going rate FARE
They address the ABA AGS
They may be bowled over PINS
They're counted NOSES
Tibet's ___ Lama DALAI
Time and again OFTEN
Uncommon sense ESP
Unduly TOO
Uproar HOHA
Vietnamese celebration TET
Waits near at hand HVERS
Wall St. maneuver LBO
Was foreboding LOOMED
Way overweight OBESE
West Bank bank LEUMI
Where the vice president is president USSENATE
Where to find cranberries BOG
Will-___-wisp OTHE
Winter warmer HTCHCOLATE
With 41-Down, 'Alias' actress LENA
Wreath material HLLY
Yellow salt IODATE
You'd better believe it DOGMA
___ above (better than) ACUT