Universal - Dec 25 2011

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Clues Answers
"Look before you leap," for example ADAGE
"Miracle on the Hudson" hero, e.g PILOT
"Rocky" actress Shire TALIA
6 x 9-inch book size OCTAVO
Absorb the sun TAN
Act like a loving grandparent DOTE
Alabama's intrastate rival AUBURN
An encumbrance against property LIEN
And so on ETCETERA
Andy's doll mate ANN
Another reindeer DONNER
Another reindeer BLITZEN
Another reindeer DASHER
Before, before a word PRE
Bird bill NEB
British coppers PENCE
Brown quarters? DORMS
Canonized Fr. women STES
Car salesman's domain LOT
Christina of "Pan Am" RICCI
City about 70 miles north of Mexico TUCSON
City on Norton Sound NOME
Classic Mercedes-Benz roadsters SLS
Considers, like a poet AVISES
Cosmonaut Leonov, the first spacewalker ALEXEI
Daisy type OXEYE
Dances like Gomez and Morticia Addams TANGOS
Dentist visit initiator ACHE
Do the math, in a way ADD
Dutch painter Jan STEEN
Earful at the complaint department RANT
Electrically charged atoms IONS
Emulated a rapper RHYMED
First one out in an auto race POLECAR
Fishing pole components REELS
Flirted (with) TOYED
Fountain pen feather PLUME
Clues Answers
Gal from the night before? EVE
Gilt's abode STY
Give up, as a claim to the throne RENOUNCE
Haley and Trebek ALEXES
Inflamed with love ENAMORED
Jacob's brother ESAU
Ketchup company HEINZ
Liane of NPR HANSEN
Lightning attractor ROD
Like hot peanuts ROASTED
Made known, as grievances AIRED
Make a contribution DONATE
NCAA tournament nail-biters OTS
Nullifier, in law ABATOR
Portent OMEN
Practice boxing SPAR
Puts up, as a skyscraper ERECTS
Ran sandpaper over EVENED
Red root veggie BEET
Relatives of carps and minnows DACES
Ship designation HER
Some computers and printers, familiarly HPS
Startling exclamation BOO
Swiss accompaniment HAM
The D of CD DISC
The lead reindeer RUDOLPH
Three more reindeer VIXENCUPIDCOMET
Two more reindeer DANCERPRANCER
Up to the time that UNTIL
Very dry, as Champagne BRUT
Vote into the Hall of Fame ENSHRINE
Want-ad placer HIRER
Weekly satirical TV show, briefly SNL
Winery storage units VATS
Wooden shoes SABOTS
___ in turkey TAS
___ polloi HOI