New York Times - Dec 12 2004

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7' 5' Ming YAO
Alfred E. Neuman feature GRIN
Amazed telegram recipient’s cry? WHATAMESSAGE
Announce HERALD
Bad spots for a date ACNE
Baker of song ANITA
Baltic port RIGA
Befuddled ATALOSS
Bird: Prefix AVI
Blows away WOWS
Book before Esther: Abbr. NEH
Breaks off STOPS
Bro PAL
Broken TAMED
Building material ADOBE
Busted RANIN
Calling “chicken,” perhaps EGGINGON
Canada’s Point ___ National Park PELEE
Carol contraction TIS
Chats online, for short IMS
Cheney’s predecessor GORE
Clinton’s first secretary of defense ASPIN
Clipped TERSE
Coarse EARTHY
Cold weather protector EARFLAP
Collapsible lid OPERAHAT
Colorful circle AREOLA
Cool brews ICETEAS
Correspondence PARITY
Cost of a mail-order bride? HITCHINGPOSTAGE
Course list abbr. TBA
Darkening TWILIGHT
Ding Dong alternatives HOHOS
Diving areas DEEPENDS
Early Nebraskans OTOS
Early seafarers feared going over it THEEDGE
Fairylike being of myth PERI
Falls behind, in a way OWES
Famous murder defendant of the 1920’s LOEB
Fan’s sound WHIRR
Get bug-eyed over MARVELAT
Giant of old OTT
Gloomy guy GUS
Goddess of peace IRENE
Goes belly up DIES
Gorgons HAGS
Got milk LACTATED
Grounds for a good night’s sleep? DECAF
Has too much, briefly ODS
Hate with a passion DETEST
Hoity-toity one SNOB
Ignored, as authority FLOUTED
Impetuously, perhaps ONADARE
In order SOAS
Indian butter GHEE
Initials in stone RIP
It usually has a point DECIMAL
Jackie’s second ARI
Jerk ASS
Joins in ENTERS
Kind of theater IMAX
Kite aid UPDRAFT
Lake tribe ERIE
Land’s end? DEE
Lengthy sentence LIFE
Letter getter ATHLETE
Lift HIKE
Like most sonnets IAMBIC
Like some nuts THREADED
Lit SMASHED
Clues Answers
Little digit PIGGY
Made fancy DIDUP
Midshipmen’s gridiron gains? NAVYYARDAGE
Moonshine maker LIAR
Mrs. Copperfield DORA
Multiply like an amoeba REDIVIDE
Namath put it on the map: Abbr. AFL
Next THEN
Not behind ANTI
Nourished the mind EDIFIED
Nutritionist’s fig. RDA
Once, once ERST
One going down fast SKIER
One of 12 popes PIUS
One of the Brothers Karamazov DMITRI
One tooting a horn ENGINEER
One who gets a reaction ELICITOR
Order to a power plant worker? CHECKTHISOUTAGE
Palliate EASE
PC key ESC
Playwright Peter who wrote “Marat/Sade” WEISS
Pledge of allegiance IDO
Polish EDIT
Primary strategy PLANA
Prince of Broadway HAL
Put forward POSED
Putdown SLUR
Ran very slowly OOZED
Range from Iowa AMANA
Raymond of “Dr. Kildare” MASSEY
Relatively rare REDDER
Respected ones ELDERS
Result of a vacuum cleaner mishap? HOOVERDAMAGE
Road runner AUTO
Robes of office, once TOGAS
Saw out of the blue? POPUPADAGE
Sheet music abbr. ARR
Sign of a winner VEE
Silent army ANTS
Silent authority? KOP
Small types AGATES
Some farm machinery BALERS
Some multiplayer deals TRADES
Some stock quotes LOWS
Strong Greek wine RETSINA
Supporting PRO
Surrealist sculptor ARP
Swindler, slangily GANEF
Table scrap ORT
Took care of SAWTO
Tramp class? BUMSTEERAGE
Tread stealthily CREEP
TV Guide data AIRINGS
TV warrior XENA
Twisted character in “Oliver Twist” FAGIN
Unit of volume SONE
Unstimulating ARID
Water, chemically HOH
Wedding fling? RICE
What a local news broadcast leads with? HOTFOOTAGE
Where a lot of fed. govt. workers live DCAREA
___ gratias DEO
“Darned if I know” SEARCHME
“Dennis the Menace” airer on old TV CBS
“Don’t worry” ITSOKAY
“Eye of ___ …” NEWT
“See ya” TATA
“The Compleat Angler” author Walton IZAAK
“You don’t even want to know the alternative!” ORELSE
“You don’t say!” ISTHATSO