New York Times - Dec 24 2006

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Clues Answers
'Don't get any ___' IDEAS
'Encore!' ONEMORE
'Get ___ get out' INOR
'Law & Order' figs. DAS
'March of the Penguins' director ___ Jacquet LUC
'Mazel ___!' TOV
'Peter Pan' writer BARRIE
'___ Rollo' (popular Mexican variety show) OTRO
'___ the season to be jolly' TIS
1957 hit for the Bobbettes MRLEE
1962 Paul Anka hit ESOBESO
1994 sci-fi writer's memoir IASIMOV
8-Down, with 'the' SON
A long, long time EONS
Adjusts, as laces RETIES
Amazon's home THEWEB
Attest SWEAR
Away's partner FAR
Baseball's Moises ALOU
Big test MIDTERM
Big top? AFRO
Bog down MIRE
Brooks Robinson, e.g. ORIOLE
Call at sea AVAST
Cancels ABORTS
Celebrates EXALTS
Chemical ending ANE
Chinese symbols on Santa's vehicle? SLEIGHDRAGONS
Christmas gift easily identifiable by shaking? JIGSAW
Christmas laughs HOS
Christmas quaffs set atop a board? NOGSONWOOD
Co. that makes Band-Aids JANDJ
Comedian ___ Mac BERNIE
Common green house gift FERN
Corner piece ELL
Court minutes ACTA
Cross-out DELETION
Dandy FOP
Delay TIMELAG
Dish ladled out hot or cold BORSCHT
Dispatch boats AVISOS
Do some tailoring RESEAM
Dominant dogs ALPHAS
Dorm overseers, for short RAS
Dot follower COM
Draw out ELICIT
Early seventh-century year DCII
Everything, on the Ems ALLE
Expired RANOUT
Father Time prop SCYTHE
Fetch SELLFOR
Film buff's cable channel TMC
Fleur-de-___ LIS
Fortuneteller's opening ISEE
G8 member USA
Genesis man ADAM
Gifts you only think about giving? PRESENTSOFMIND
Goodwill AMITY
Greek height OSSA
Grp. with the 1977 hit 'Do Ya' ELO
Handler of gifts for the kids on the 'naughty' list? COALPORTER
Hearst's San ___ castle SIMEON
Hedingham Castle locale ESSEX
Hgts. ALTS
Home's counterpart OFFICE
Hot dog WEENIE
Hunter's meat VENISON
In myth, killer of his own mother, Clytemnestra ORESTES
In use TAKEN
It might leave tracks MUD
Clues Answers
Italian tragic poet Vittorio ALFIERI
Itsy-bitsy door decoration? PEEWEEWREATH
Kansas City suburb LENEXA
Kind of terrier SKYE
Kraft Nabisco Championship org. LPGA
Like dishwater SUDSY
Like some chiefs TRIBAL
Makings of a coup PLOT
Manger figure JESUS
Melodic pieces ARIOSI
Military trial, briefly NTEST
Mincemeat ___ PIE
N.J. summer setting EDT
Never, in Nürnberg NIE
Obligation ONUS
One who might grab the bull by the horns TORERO
Opposite of should OUGHTNT
Paleontological wonder at a natural history museum TREX
Part of old French Indochina LAOS
Per se ASSUCH
Pivots FULCRA
Place to get a reaction in school? CHEMLAB
Played some songs, say DIDASET
Pogo, e.g. OPOSSUM
Popular record label EMI
Precede LEADTO
Punching devices AWLS
QB Hasselbeck MATT
Refuges OASES
Relaxed ATPEACE
Relief provider REDCROSS
Rescues FREES
River of Devon EXE
Rolling rock LAVA
Samuel's teacher, in the Bible ELI
Santa reindeer-turned-zombie? DONNERTHEDEAD
Sauntered MOSEYED
Scratch DOREMI
Second string BTEAM
Sell to a new audience, say REMARKET
Serengeti grazer GNU
Sight from Messina ETNA
Snooker need CUE
Sold out, in a way RATTEDON
Some 1960's coupes GTOS
Spigot site URN
Spiny cactus CHOLLA
Spoke at great length SPIELED
Squinted (at) PEERED
Star wearer: Abbr. GEN
Stephen Hawking's alma mater OXFORD
Stephen of 'V for Vendetta' REA
Stern parent's reply ISAIDNO
Stretch (out) EKE
Suffix with form ULA
Sunburnt Santa? LOBSTERCLAUS
Texas city ODESSA
Three in one TRIUNE
Thrice, in Rx's TER
Throws a Christmas tree? MAKESTHEFIRFLY
Tokyo-based carrier ANA
Tremor SEISM
Two qtrs. SEM
U.S.N. officer ENS
Variety ILK
Venusians, e.g. ETS
Whitish ASHEN
Woman in Sartre's 'No Exit' ESTELLE
___ speak SOTO
___-Caps SNO