New York Times - Dec 26 2004

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Clues Answers
'A Doll's House' heroine NORA
'Bali ___' HAI
'I Believe' singer, 1953 LAINE
'I'm Real' singer's nickname JLO
'In Search Of …' host NIMOY
'The Wreck of the Mary ___' DEARE
A long time YEARS
Arboreal age indicator RING
As originally arranged INSITU
At sixes and sevens CONFUSED
Auto damage DENTS
Away NOTIN
Balance provider ATM
Ballet piece TUTU
Belarus's capital MINSK
Benefit package grps. HMOS
Bidding site EBAY
Big name in infomercials RONCO
Billiards bounce CAROM
Bird making a basket LARRY
Bison features MANES
Blue SADDENED
Boiling point? STOVE
Bozos OAFS
Bridge seats EASTS
Bronchi termini LUNGS
Bufferin alternative ALEVE
Cafeteria DININGOATES
Calls, old-style DIALS
Camera type, briefly SLR
Candidate of 1992 PEROT
Captain of industry BARON
Car dealer's offering LEASE
Classic doll RAGGEDYAMOS
Clumsy move LURCH
Co. V.I.P. PRES
Coleridge's '___ Khan' KUBLA
Common test subject RAT
Cool NEAT
Country partner? TOWN
Cousin of a mole SHREW
Crimson rivals ELIS
Dairy treat FLOAT
Defaulter's comeuppance REPO
Derrières RUMPS
Dubious 'gift' ESP
Entrance WAYIN
Felicity BLISS
Find new tenants for RELET
Flower girl, sometimes NIECE
Follow very closely TAILGATE
Former first lady's name BESS
French department MARNE
Fugitive's creation ALIAS
Funny Mike MYERS
Glossary entry TERM
Great move COUP
Hammer wielder BLACKWESSON
Harry who co-founded Columbia Pictures COHN
Have a cow CALVE
Head of Iran beginning 1997 KHATAMI
Hostage crisis group SWAT
Hue close to aqua TEAL
In the presence of BEFORE
Islets of Langerhans locale PANCREAS
It's half the faun GOAT
James Clavell best seller '___-Pan' TAI
Just about hopeless BLEAK
Kadett maker OPEL
Keyboard section TIER
Clues Answers
L-shaped tool BURNSWRENCH
Land in l'Atlantique ILE
Lawn-Boy alternative TORO
Leigh Hunt's 'Abou Ben ___' ADHEM
Letter wearers, e.g. ATHLETES
Like most of Oman ARID
Like ocher ORANGISH
Live ___ (be someone you're not) ALIE
Long-running column HINTSFROMABELARD
Lug LOUT
Lusitania sinker UBOAT
Maintained ALLEGED
Major or Thatcher, e.g. TORY
Make beam ELATE
Makes EARNS
Makes indistinct DIMS
Manage REGULATE
Mendicant's want ALMS
Michael who won the 1989 French Open CHANG
Microwave feature TIMER
Mild oaths DRATS
Modern ice cream flavor OREO
Mountaineer's challenge CRAG
Newspaper department OBITS
No longer on the bottle WEANED
Nook ALCOVE
Novelist known for 'locked-room' mysteries CARR
Old hat TRITE
Pearl Mosque locale AGRA
Pedestal figure IDOL
Places of 50-Down EDENS
Poet Piercy MARGE
Pony provoker SPUR
Popular negotiation location CAMPGOLIATH
Popular saxophonist KENNYG
Portobello alternative MOREL
Potpourri OLIO
Predinner ritual DRINKS
Puff ___ ADDER
Pungent TANGY
Racer's path OVAL
Raipur wrap SARI
Rash problem ITCH
Refreshing spots OASES
Saying nothing MUTE
Sensitive spots SORES
Shocked reaction GASP
Shoplifter's giveaway, perhaps BULGE
Some apples ROMES
Some muscles ROTATORS
Spends pleasantly, with 'away' WHILES
Stick around LOITER
Stops up DAMS
Struck out DELED
Surveyors' maps PLATS
Tango moves DIPS
Terra firma EARTH
The libido, in psychiatry EROS
Things put on houses LIENS
Those reversing NEGATORS
Toast alternative BAGEL
Toiletry item FLOSS
Tops HATS
Twinge PANG
Unduplicatable, in a way PATENTED
Video store category ACTION
Video store category GENRE
What's happening DOINGS
When some people pick up turkeys THANKSGIVINGADAM
Worker who shouldn't have acrophobia STEEPLEJILL