New York Times - Dec 25 2003

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Clues Answers
'Aha!' THATSIT
'Forever, ___' (1996 humor book) ERMA
'Gosford Park' character ___ Novello IVOR
'Yeah, right!' OHSURE
'___ Cinders' (old comic) ELLA
1953 Jean Simmons title role BESS
6 on a phone MNO
Ballerina DANCER
Basketball datum ASSIST
Be a poor public speaker DRONE
Bit of a shock? WISP
Cable inits. AMC
California's ___ Pass DONNER
Cavorter PRANCER
Chief Big Bear, for one CREE
City near Phoenix MESA
Cleaning brand COMET
Coast Guard rank: Abbr. CPO
Courtyards ATRIA
Criminal defendant, with 'the' ACCUSED
Daring 1960's Ralph Ginzburg magazine EROS
Disencumber RID
Dodgers' field, once EBBETS
Female fox VIXEN
Fish eaten whole SMELT
German valley RUHR
Good-for-nothing OTIOSE
Hackneyed TIRED
It comes to mind IDEA
Juicy fruit NECTARINE
Lightning bolts, in Germany BLITZEN
Like some ground SACRED
Lincoln and Ford AUTOS
Matchmaker CUPID
Mincemeat ingredient SUET
Musk or must ODOR
Net SNARE
Nil NOTONE
Nil ZERO
Clues Answers
On ATOP
One on the go DASHER
One who waits in ambush LIER
Opposite of neat ONICE
Owner of eight other answers in this puzzle SANTA
Parallel AKIN
Photocopy precursor MIMEO
Prefix with meter OCTA
Razor-billed ___ AUK
Reindeer group HERD
Reindeer team, counting Rudolph NINE
Religious image: Var. IKON
Rudolph's beacon NOSE
School attended by Ian Fleming ETON
Several czars IVANS
Sirens, e.g. WOMEN
Slip into DON
Sound gravelly RASP
Split-second SPEEDY
Stiffness STARCH
Stopping-off place RESTAREA
Street crossing Hollywood VINE
Stuff SATE
Subordinate bureaucrat SATRAP
Suffix with mock ERY
Take in SEE
The Tigers PRINCETON
Therefore: Fr. DONC
Took surreptitiously SNEAKED
Turf SOD
Two-time U.S. Open winner ERNIEELS
W.W. II map: Abbr. ETO
What gymgoers show off, slangily BODS
Wild ones MANIACS
x, for one AXIS
Zool. or astron. SCI
Zulu, for one BANTU
___ favor POR
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