New York Times - Dec 10 2006

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Clues Answers
'Beauty and the Beast' role GASTON
'Di quella pira,' e.g. ARIA
'Is that a fact?!' GEE
'Nemesis' novelist ASIMOV
'Oh, give ___ home …' MEA
'Wheel of Fortune' purchase ANI
10,900-foot European peak ETNA
1950 World Cup host, with a stadium for 180,000+ people RIO
Adequate, old-style ENOW
Advice to Claudius, in 'Hamlet'? WATCHYOURSTEPSON
Africa's ___ Tomé SAO
Applications USES
Astroturf alternative GRASS
Author Bagnold ENID
Backs REARS
Barrel-shaped marine mammals EAREDSEALS
Battery number VOLTS
Be under, as an officer REPORTTO
Become unhinged SNAP
Big name in trading cards TOPPS
Big petrol seller ESSO
Birthplace of 41-Across: Abbr. RUS
Bluish gray SLATY
Breakdown on a Hyundai assembly line? SONATASTANDSTILL
Buss SMACK
Call for help SOS
Cambodia's Lon ___ NOL
Celtic rival NET
Check for typos, e.g. REREAD
Chop ___ SUEY
Chow EATS
Cold response? BRR
Comment after looking at one's cards IMIN
Commonly accepted as such PUTATIVE
Company on the move TROUPE
Coolers, for short ACS
Decorate with pointy figures ENSTAR
Decrees UKASES
Dishonest sort BADEGG
Driver's lic., e.g. IDENT
Dubai or Houston PORT
Edit for TV, say RECUT
Eggheady sort NERD
Ewe said it BAA
Far out RAD
Final, e.g. EXAM
Flop FIASCO
Formerly, once ERST
Future seed OVULE
Gets rid of ERASES
Go on stage ENTER
Go ___ (start fighting) TOWAR
Grisham's '___ to Kill' ATIME
Hidey-hole LAIR
High point AERIE
Hit hard SMITE
Home of El Nuevo Herald MIAMI
Horse ridden by Hotspur in 'King Henry IV, Part I' ROAN
Instance CASE
It starts in Yellowstone National Park SNAKERIVER
It's found in seams ORE
Jazzy James ETTA
Jet part NOSE
Laugh syllable HEE
Leaves at a luau LEI
Like baseball covers SEWN
Like the emperor Atahualpa INCAN
Long bones ULNAE
Long in the tooth AGED
Mad staff: Abbr. EDS
Mad., e.g. AVE
Clues Answers
Many applications GELS
Meager SCANTY
Meager SPARSE
Memorable 2004 hurricane IVAN
Miss GIRL
Most insolent BRASHEST
Musical with the song 'N.Y.C.' ANNIE
N.B.A. legend Kareem Abdul-___ JABBAR
NBC inits. SNL
Newly mortared bricks and stones? VIRGINMASONRY
November through April, to vacationers? CARIBBEANSEASON
Obstruct DAMUP
Old Roman's boast after a deer hunt? VENISONVIDIVICI
On and after ASOF
One needed to bestow a blessing on a golf club? PARSONFORTHECOURSE
Oscar winner for 'Separate Tables' NIVEN
Oscar-winning Irene CARA
Out of place INAPT
Palindromic writer NIN
Person making unauthorized reports MOLE
Pharaoh, for one REDANT
Phase of life before retirement LATECAREER
Pick up LEARN
Popular vodka, informally STOLI
Put together UNITE
Rafting area RAPIDS
Reason for a flood of calls to the police dept., maybe UFO
Rejections NOES
Rev. Jesse on Sundays? JACKSONINTHEPULPIT
Reward for going home? RUN
Runners at the corners, say, in baseball TWOON
Seat of Washoe County, Nev. RENO
See 117-Down ISI
See 83-Across VOICE
Shrewdness ACUMEN
Some of Shakespeare's income? SONNETPROFITS
Splits hairs NITPICKS
Spoils LOOT
Spoke in a poke? OINKED
Sponge MOOCH
State of confusion SNAFU
Stickers BARBS
Submarine base? DELI
Supersized EXTRALARGE
Symbol of worthlessness SOU
TABLET PAD
Tailback's stat: Abbr. YDS
Thanksgiving dishes YAMS
Till bill TEN
To be played in unison ADUE
Took notice SATUP
Town north of Anaheim BREA
Travel items VISAS
Truss TIE
Tudor queen, informally BESS
TV part TELE
Unveil, in poetry OPE
V.I.P.'s opposite PEON
Volkswagen model EOS
Wedding band, maybe OCTET
Where 'yes' is 'ioe,' pronounced in three syllables SAMOA
With 37-Down, popular book on grammar WOE
With 74-Down, unanimity ONE
Words of confidence ICAN
Words said with a raised hand IDO
World Series game POKER
Yellow ball YOLK
___ Circus (ancient Roman arena) NEROS
___ florentine ALA
___-frutti TUTTI
___-Rooter ROTO