Newsday.com - Jan 2 2012

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Clues Answers
''Take __ from me!'' ATIP
''Yikes!'' OHNO
''You did a great job!'' NICEGOING
Acknowledged the crowd WAVED
Active person DOER
Annoying person PEST
Baby-powder ingredient TALC
Backyard barbecue area PATIO
Book with maps ATLAS
Children of deer FAWNS
Chinese-cuisine staple RICE
Chooses, with ''for'' OPTS
Close to the ground LOW
Cost PRICE
Curved lines ARCS
Dies down ABATES
Dirty-laundry holder HAMPER
Donkey ASS
Empty space GAP
End of a prayer AMEN
Farm enclosures PENS
Farmland unit ACRE
Fill with dismay APPALL
Folktale collection LORE
Garden tool HOE
General region AREA
Have a meal EAT
Health resorts SPAS
Hold title to OWN
Ice-cream holder CONE
In excess of OVER
Kind of trophy LOVINGCUP
Largest Greek island CRETE
Lariat loop NOOSE
Lebanon neighbor SYRIA
Like many garages TWOCAR
Literary spoof SATIRE
London's locale: Abbr ENG
Make confetti out of SHRED
Clues Answers
Man of Spain SENOR
Methods WAYS
Minor quarrel SPAT
NO TURN __ (traffic sign) ONRED
Old West outposts FORTS
One from Italy's capital ROMAN
Operatic solo ARIA
Paper repairer TAPE
Pays out SPENDS
Post-WWII alliance NATO
Religious group SECT
Respond ANSWER
Ripped apart TORN
Rosebush sticker THORN
Season's first game OPENER
Secretly watch SPYON
Show gratitude to THANK
Signals, as a taxi HAILS
Small lakes PONDS
Small songbird WREN
Soccer score GOAL
Sow's squeal OINK
Stared in wonder GAPED
Starting point for sledding HILLTOP
Step through a stream WADE
Takes to court SUES
Tiresome person BORE
Top poker cards ACES
Trifled (with) TOYED
Trophy or medal AWARD
Two-tone cookie OREO
Wallet filler CASH
Ways of walking GAITS
Where ships come in SEAPORT
Winter attire WARMCLOTHES
Yam SWEETPOTATO
Zodiac ram ARIES
__ Scotia, Canada NOVA
__ were (so to speak) ASIT