| '...___ man put asunder' |
LETNO |
| 'Back in Black' rockers |
ACDC |
| 'Catalan Landscape' painter |
MIRO |
| 'Elementary' airer |
CBS |
| 'It's possible' |
COULDBE |
| 'Must've been something ___' |
IATE |
| 'Once There Was ___' (Steinbeck book) |
AWAR |
| 'So that's your little game!' |
OHO |
| 'When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it' speaker |
SAMSPADE |
| 'White Noise' novelist Don |
DELILLO |
| 'Zip-___-Doo-Dah' |
ADEE |
| '___ Fine' (hit for the Chiffons) |
HESSO |
| 1961 hit for the Shirelles |
MAMASAID |
| 1997 bestseller by Charles Frazier |
COLDMOUNTAIN |
| Abu ___ |
DHABI |
| Act the heckler |
JEER |
| Adams, Grant and Carter |
AMYS |
| Afresh |
DENOVO |
| Amahl's creator |
MENOTTI |
| Astringent fruits |
SLOES |
| Audie Murphy movie '___ Crooked Trail' |
RIDEA |
| Basketball victory souvenir |
NET |
| Bernanke's domain, with 'The' |
FED |
| Big brute |
APE |
| Bluffer's giveaway |
TELL |
| Bookstore section |
SCIFI |
| Brit's bouillons |
BEEFTEAS |
| Broadway biodrama of 1989 |
TRU |
| Bullring bravos |
OLES |
| Burnt to a crisp, say |
INEDIBLE |
| Catcher's posture |
SQUAT |
| Check the fit of |
TRYON |
| Christmas tree, often |
FIR |
| City near Monte Vesuvio |
NAPOLI |
| Conical tent |
TIPI |
| Craggy peak |
TOR |
| Creator of the Grinch |
DRSEUSS |
| D.C. baseballer |
NAT |
| December 21, and the occasion for this puzzle's theme |
FIRSTDAYOFWINTER |
| Designer Oldham |
TODD |
| Destroys gradually |
ERODES |
| Diplomatic success |
ACCORD |
| Director Preminger |
OTTO |
| Easy ___ |
ASABC |
| Emphatic ending for yes or no |
SIREE |
| End of the third qtr |
SEPT |
| Exec. level |
MGT |
| Face on a fiver |
ABE |
| Finland, to a Finn |
SUOMI |
| First lady before Michelle |
LAURA |
| First name at Woodstock |
ARLO |
| Flier to Ben Gurion International |
ELAL |
| Flower's sepals, collectively |
CALYX |
| Former gambling spots in NYC |
OTBS |
| Former steel giant |
ARMCO |
| Fusion |
MIX |
| George Clooney's Max and others |
PETPIGS |
| Goatlike mammal of Asia |
SEROW |
| Golden rule preposition |
UNTO |
| Golf's Ernie |
ELS |
| Good and evil, e.g |
POLAROPPOSITES |
| Good, to Guillermo |
BUENO |
| Grab bag |
OLIO |
| Graceful antelope |
ORIBI |
| Guitarist Cooder and namesakes |
RYS |
| Handpick |
SELECT |
| Hanging on every word |
RAPT |
| Has a slow flow |
OOZES |
| He lost the popular vote to Tilden |
HAYES |
| He lost to Franklin in 1936 |
ALF |
| Home to the town of Christmas: Abbr |
FLA |