New York Times - Dec 17 2012

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Clues Answers
'It's the end of ___' ANERA
'Jeopardy!' host Trebek ALEX
'No sweat!' EASY
'There Is Nothin' Like a ___' ('South Pacific' song) DAME
'Très ___' ('Very well,' in French) BIEN
151, in old Rome CLI
Aid for reaching the top shelf, maybe STOOL
Allows OKS
Atop OVER
Avails oneself of USES
Barely run the engine IDLE
Beginner TYRO
Cartoon frames CELS
Chicken ___ king ALA
Cleveland b-ball team CAVS
Cumberland ___ GAP
Dickens's 'The Mystery of ___ Drood' EDWIN
Dip, as a doughnut DUNK
Doles (out) METES
Dolt's response DUH
Dove sounds COOS
Either side of a doorway JAMB
Eskimo boot MUKLUK
Favor a 'th' sound LISP
Feed the same line RECUE
Film spool REEL
Follow behind TAGALONG
Former Disney head Michael EISNER
Fresh take, informally REDO
Garrison of 'A Prairie Home Companion' KEILLOR
Genghis Khan, for one MONGOL
Go over in one's imagination RELIVE
Green gem JADE
Green gems EMERALDS
Hard-to-chew piece of meat GRISTLE
Having a clearer head SANER
Hornets' home NEST
Hospital diagnostic CATSCAN
Idaho's capital BOISE
Clues Answers
Impulses URGES
In a wily way SLYLY
Institution in Ithaca, N.Y CORNELL
It's bordered by three countries with '-stan' in their names IRAN
It's dipped in the water OAR
James Bond film involving a Fabergé egg OCTOPUSSY
Kazan of Hollywood ELIA
Little brother, to an older sibling, say PEST
Misbehave ACTUP
Needing hospitalization, say ILL
Needing sign language, say DEAF
Obese FAT
Omega preceder PSI
Outcome RESULT
Pakistani tongue URDU
Per ___ (expense account amount) DIEM
Perennial whose flowers are typically orange with black dots TIGERLILY
Place to sleep BEDROOM
River near the Pyramids NILE
Samuel on the Supreme Court ALITO
School where the Clintons met YALE
Senegal's capital DAKAR
Sicilian mount ETNA
Skirt style ALINE
Source of some fluff DANDELION
Stick out EXTRUDE
String quartet member VIOLA
Surface quality TEXTURE
The 'N' of PIN NUMBER
Tune MELODY
Votes that are an anagram of 71-Across YEAS
Was out front LED
Water carriers HOSES
Wedge fractions in Trivial Pursuit SIXTHS
Where navies go TOSEA
Wright flight site KITTYHAWK
___ club (singing group) GLEE
___ Dhabi ABU
___ vera ALOE