Newsday.com - Dec 25 2011

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Clues Answers
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''Forget it'' NODICE
''Li'l Abner'' cartoonist ALCAPP
''The Tree of Life'' star PITT
''You bet!'' YES
''__ the season . . .'' TIS
About 2.5 acres HECTARE
Actress Madeline KAHN
Actress Zellweger RENEE
Alhambra's locale GRANADA
AMA members DRS
Ancient legend MYTH
Balance-sheet details ASSETS
Bivouac beds COTS
Boon for WWII vets GIBILL
Bout enders KOS
Brief upturn BLIP
CD ancestors LPS
Choice word EITHER
Climb up SCALE
Command to a canine BEG
Commissioner of baseball SELIG
Cool it STOP
Corporate brass CEOS
Craftspersons SMITHS
Crime-scene evidence DNA
Cut (off) LOP
Deceived LIEDTO
Deep black JET
Designer Cassini OLEG
Devoured ATEUP
Diamond official UMP
Director __ Lee ANG
Downcast SAD
Drain-cleaner ingredient LYE
Edna Ferber novel SOBIG
Embarrassing error BLOOPER
Entertained lavishly REGALED
Every other hurricane HER
Exams for some college srs GMATS
Family member SIS
Fill-in worker TEMP
Flabbergast AMAZE
Flora + fauna BIOTA
Frank __ Wright LLOYD
Furniture maker's tool FRETSAW
George __ (Revolutionary War-era king) III
Gets angry RILESUP
Got angry SEETHED
Ground-breaking implement HOE
Group of wolves or lies PACK
Haddock cousin COD
Hotel freebie SHAMPOO
Ida of '40s/'50s films LUPINO
In addition AND
In good shape FIT
Informal farewell SEEYA
Insignificant detail NIT
Is overproud BOASTS
Italian word for ''milk'' LATTE
Latch (onto) GLOM
Leave port SETSAIL
Like lawns GRASSY
Limits risk HEDGES
Line from ''Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'' HAPPYGOLDENDAYSOFYORE
Line from ''Jingle Bells'' DASHINGTHROUGHTHESNOW
Line from ''Let It Snow! . . .'' THEFIREISSODELIGHTFUL
Line from ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town'' BEGOODFORGOODNESSSAKE
Line from ''The Christmas Waltz'' CANDLESGLEAMINGINSIDE
Loose soil DIRT
Mag execs, for short EDS
Main color of a Santa suit RED
Clues Answers
Matchmaker of 116 Down CUPID
Mean, to a statistician: Abbr AVG
Meditative sect ZEN
Mexican bean FRIJOLE
Most Wanted List compiler FBI
Murphy of ''Shrek'' EDDIE
Name that means ''sorceress'' SYBIL
Nation surrounded by South Africa LESOTHO
Nine-symbol message SOS
Not exactly, conversationally SORTA
Old Norse letter RUNE
One side of an issue CONS
Opposite of paleo- NEO
Out in the open OVERT
Outdo BEST
Part of a Santa costume BOOTS
Part of TGIF ITS
Pays for BUYS
Pellet shooter BBGUN
Person on the run ESCAPEE
Place to perch ROOST
Point of view OPINION
Portion PIECE
Prefix for present OMNI
Pretense ACT
Product of a certain farm SOD
Property claims LIENS
Razorbill birds AUKS
Relate TELL
Reveille player BUGLE
Reverberate ECHO
Rhapsodic verse ODE
Rodeo accessory LASSO
Role models IDOLS
RR stop STA
Ruminate MULL
S&L customer ACCT
Salad dressing ingredient OIL
Santa subordinate ELF
Selects, so to speak TAPS
Seven-sibling performing family OSMONDS
Shooting star METEOR
Showed disapproval TSKED
Signed, as a contract INKED
Similarly ALIKE
Single-stripe GIs PFCS
Sore spots ACHES
Sounds relieved SIGHS
Spanish article UNA
Sparsely distributed THIN
Speaks ill of TRASHES
Spoke UTTERED
Spots for cookouts PATIOS
Standard of excellence IDEAL
Stop insisting BACKOFF
Straight up ERECTLY
Summer Games org IOC
Sunbeam RAY
Sunscreen letters SPF
Talk too much YAK
Threatens MENACES
Tic-tac-toe victory OOO
Transgressions SINS
TV musical series since '09 GLEE
Type of tort LIBEL
US/Canada defense group NORAD
Varnish source RESIN
Was a tributary of FEDINTO
Where the buoys are SEA
Zilch NAUGHT
__ day (frequent vitamin dose) ONEA
__ Lanka SRI