The Washington Post - Jan 8 2012

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'A Kiss Before Dying' author LEVIN
'Business @ the Speed of Thought' author GATES
'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' actor Visnjic GORAN
'The Seine at Giverny' painter MONET
'___ ... Lovely and Alive' (1962 jazz album) LENA
1999 SAG Life Achievement Award recipient POITIER
Abbr. on an itinerary, maybe AVE
Awareness ribbon's place LAPEL
Beat by a nose EDGE
Beauregard follower REB
Beautify, with 'up' SMARTEN
Came across LITON
Certain game option DARE
Class's conclusion? ESSES
Conference USA team MUSTANGS
Creator of Brown Bar-ba-loots DRSEUSS
Cuts off SEVERS
Dash VIM
Deity on California's great seal MINERVA
EG, e.g BIGRAM
Ever ATALL
Forcefully separate TEARAPART
Fruitlessly TONOAVAIL
Gives the silent treatment to IGNORES
Hard to grasp, in a way TEENY
Held back, perhaps INRESERVE
It might wind up on a pier REEL
It sheds skin PARER
Last word of the theme song to 'The Jeffersons' PIE
Like a coot AVIAN
Like some illegal softball pitches OVERARM
Like sulfur hexafluoride INERT
Little wiggler TOE
Long-muzzled beasts BABOONS
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Loses passion COOLS
Lutetia, today PARIS
Made like APED
Mediterranean harvest FIGS
Minyan minimum TEN
Oinker, to a younker PIGGIE
Part of UTEP PASO
Person who makes lots of connections RIVETER
Picked up SENSED
Producers of formic acid ANTS
Prospector's companion BURRO
Quite a sight SPECTACLE
Restrained, in a way INIRONS
Runaway brides? ELOPERS
Shot from above STRAFED
Singing jester RIGOLETTO
Sit on it REAREND
Son of, in some names IBN
Sound off OPINE
Sperry line TOPSIDERS
Take advantage of Black Friday, say BUY
Takes on ENGAGES
Tar in the toilet TYDBOLMAN
They often get batted about CATTOYS
Title gynecologist in a 2000 movie DRT
Travels from pole to pole? SLALOMS
Venti alternative at Starbucks TALL
Very wide, in a way EEE
Was serious MEANTIT
Well fixed GOODASNEW
Where big news lands PAGEONE
Where jacks are high? STEEPLES
Word after cabin or shop STEWARD
___ Sci POLI