Wall Street Journal - Dec 23 2005 - December 23, 2005 - Deck the Halls

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Clues Answers
'...or ___ thought' SOI
'A History of Violence' co-star EDHARRIS
'Don't mind ___ do' IFI
'Fargo' director JOELCOEN
'Pardon me...' AHEM
'Ready or not, here ___' ICOME
'The Old Swimmin'-Hole' poet RILEY
'Wise up!' GETACLUE
1952 Winter Olympics setting OSLO
1967 NHL Rookie of the Year ORR
1975 World Series MVP PETEROSE
1978 movie directed by Michael Crichton COMA
Achilles was dipped into it STYX
Activity book puzzle DOTTODOT
Amoeba, essentially BLOB
Amount in a Brylcreem ad DAB
Amtrak speedster ACEL
Appear unexpectedly CROPUP
Average NORM
Back gate POSTERN
Basketball's Thurmond and Archibald NATES
Beethoven's last symphony NINTH
Begat SIRED
Ben Cartwright's second son HOSS
Bench presser's pride PECS
Big fat zero NIL
Bold competitor ALL
Borrower's burden DEBT
Broadway premiere of March 1943 OKLHOMA
Campaign-contributing org. PAC
Cause of inflation AIR
Chaps and Stetson COLOGNES
Charge for hand delivery? ANTE
Christmas carol emotion JOY
City begun as a Russian fur trading post WRANGELLLSKA
Clandestine meeting TRYST
Clear NET
Collapsed company of 2001 ENRON
Condition for TV's Monk: Abbr. OCD
Course areas TEES
Covenant PACT
Crying out for change INARUT
Dazzling display ECLT
December 25, for one DATE
Difficult jobs SLOGS
Director's cry ACTION
Disco hit of 1978 MACHOMAN
DNA components STRANDS
Draw on TAP
Druids' followers CELTS
Early August baby LEO
Eats GRUB
English cathedral city ELY
Eon divisions ERAS
Epicure's sense PALTE
Erich and George SEGALS
Everything THELOT
Ferry's destination ISLE
Field guide subject FUNA
Finney's 'Big Fish' wife LNGE
Flat INSIPID
Four-time Tony winner ANGELLNSBURY
Game with a 32-card deck SKAT
Garfield's foil ODIE
Gift holder BOX
Glutinous stuff GOO
Go into space? PARK
Goal of some Rio Grande crossers ELNORTE
Green stroke PUTT
Hang ornaments on TRIM
Hero layer SALMI
Hip-swaying dance HUL
Clues Answers
Indiana Jones trademark FEDORA
Instrument with a triangular body BALLIKA
Intensify ESCALTE
It lacks refinement ORE
It tells the story of Isabel Archer THEPORTRAITOFLDY
It's known for helping hands JOKER
Jab POKE
Judge the value of ASSAY
Jumping-off points? LEDGES
King of talk LRRY
Lasso loop NOOSE
Less green, perhaps RIPER
Like a buyer's market SOFT
Lip-syncher of '60s TV MRED
Longtime role for Rhea CARL
Madcap ZANY
Make a touchdown LND
Maker of the Xsara Picasso CITROEN
Maker of VAIO computers SONY
Mammal with a low metabolism SLOTH
Manhole setting STREET
Meaning of 73-Across: Abbr. TUE
Middle of a Sue Grafton title ISFOR
Monopoly railroad BANDO
Move, in real estate jargon RELO
Music genre akin to acid house TECHNO
Note from abroad EURO
Noted reporter of fiction LOISLNE
Offering many services ONESTOP
Order before setting sail UPANCHOR
Original producer of the game Mouse Trap IDEAL
Oscar winner for 'Shampoo' LEEGRANT
Palookas LUGS
Personal emergency signal CALLLRM
Police jacket letters SWAT
Procter & Gamble soap ZEST
Put one's John Hancock on INKED
Quacks CHARLTANS
Radius, for one BONE
Ran ashore BEACHED
Raquel's 'Fantastic Voyage' role CORA
Refuge LIR
Reggae legend Peter TOSH
Remote location? SOF
Rick's pianist SAM
Ringmaster's place BIGTOP
Scotch Tape package feature PLID
Seasonal refrain FLLLLLLLL
Sign OMEN
Site of some of Caesar's campaigns GAUL
Sleazy paper RAG
Stare stupidly GAWK
Swiss chocolatier LINDT
Symbol of triumph ARCH
Taiwanese computer maker ACER
Texas's state tree PECAN
They make across-the-board cuts SAWS
Tierney of 'ER' MAURA
Took back to the impound lot RETOWED
Treaty-signing site of 1814 GHENT
TV exercise program from 1951 to 1985 THEJACKLLNNESHOW
Twistable treat OREO
Unpredictable ERRATIC
Unspoiled spots EDENS
USNA grad ENS
Virile MANLY
Winner's check? MATE
Word on a nametag HELLO
Work like a dog TOIL
Worked the kinks out of, maybe MASSAGED
___ Gras MARDI
___-Magnon CRO