Newsday.com - Dec 21 2012

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Clues Answers
''Pale'' drinks ALES
''The Bachelor'' airer ABC
A thing's ITS
Abridged CUT
Add up to ARE
Archbishop, e.g PRELATE
Bakery worker ICER
Ben's girlfriend in ''Meet the Parents'' TERI
Bow shapes ARCS
Brewer's ingredient MALT
Cartographic spot ISLE
Casual top TEE
Crying sound WAH
Defer, with ''off'' PUT
Dust remover RAG
Early match PRELIM
Endangered reptile SEATURTLE
EPCOT shuttle TRAM
Fed. conservation org EPA
Female lobster HEN
Fixed look STARE
From the halls of Montezuma AZTECAN
Gem from Australia OPAL
Grapple, in the backwoods RASSLE
Gym surface MAT
Hardly enough SCANT
Have a lapse ERR
Have or hold OWN
Homeland Security agcy TSA
Humanities course, for short LIT
Ignominy, so to speak BADNAME
Instinctual urge IMPULSE
Island near Venezuela CURACAO
It means ''merchandise'' WARE
Jazz instrument SAX
Job applicant's submission REFERENCELETTER
Juniper, for one EVERGREENTREE
Large bill CNOTE
Literary postscripts EPILOGS
Clues Answers
London lavs WCS
May honoree MOM
Meditate (on) CHEW
Minestrone alternative ANTIPASTO
Mockery FARCE
Nine-symbol message SOS
Nosy one YENTA
Of vision OPTICAL
Part of HMS HER
Passed with flying colors ACED
People from Brno CZECHS
Person from Basra IRAQI
Piece of work JOB
Pivotal point CRUX
Placate APPEASE
Prefix for friendly ECO
Quaint cry of surprise JEEPERSCREEPERS
Rebelled ROSEUP
Regal, in a way QUEENLY
Reputation, for short CRED
Rock music genre PUNK
Rolex competitor CARTIER
Roman orator SENECA
Rope loop EYE
Sci-fi staple UFO
Scroogean outburst BAH
Short putt TAPIN
Source of some seeds CARAWAY
Supermarket ID UPC
Takes after APES
Timetable stat ETD
Top squads ATEAMS
Unassuming MEEK
Unceremonious ouster HEAVEHO
Univ. figure GPA
Unmitigated UTTER
Visit SEE
Volleyball official REF
YMCA course CPR