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''A Christmas Carol'' cry BAH
''Bolero'' composer RAVEL
''Carmen'' solo ARIA
''Deck the Halls,'' e.g NOEL
''Here's looking at you'' speaker RICK
''Jabberwocky'' starter TWAS
''Marat/Sade'' playwright WEISS
''Take it!'' HERE
13 Down platform GOLFTEE
A single occasion ONCE
ABA member ATTY
Actress Mendes EVA
Alexander the artist CALDER
Ancient legend MYTH
Appointed NAMED
Assent (to) ACCEDE
Astound FLOOR
Athletes with agents PROS
Atlanta school EMORY
Attention to detail RIGOR
Aunt, in Argentina TIA
Author Dinesen ISAK
Authored WROTE
Basker's goal TAN
Be temporarily ACTAS
Beef in some burgers ANGUS
Birth of a notion IDEA
Birth of a notion GERM
Blaze of glory ECLAT
Bloke CHAP
Brake part SHOE
By means of VIA
Cinema-snack brand SNOCAPS
Close by NEARTO
College math class CALC
Coming-of-__ film AGE
Commandments verb SHALT
Common infomercial hour TWOAM
Country retreat VILLA
Cowboy, frequently ROPER
Critical cry BOO
Criticizes RAPS
Decide is best SEEFIT
Dedicated verses ODES
Deep faith PIETY
Diatribe SCREED
Diner menu section PASTA
Disparage SNEERAT
Disposed (of) RID
Drive away REPEL
Dueling swords EPEES
Each, informally APOP
Ending for opal INE
Expect back LEND
Facebook milestone of 2012 IPO
Feathery scarf BOA
Fields of knowledge AREAS
Focus of physics ATOM
Gallic girlfriend AMIE
Genetic copy CLONE
Genetic ID DNA
Gift-box decorations BOWS
Giggle sound TEHEE
Herbal drink TEA
Honey source NECTAR
Hoops great Shaq ONEAL
Household tools before refrigerators ICEPICKS
Hunter's quarry PREY
In great demand HOT
Initiation ceremony RITE
Intensely VERY
It first ran ''Breaking Bad'' AMC
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Jargon suffix ESE
Jazz-playing event NBAGAME
Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom VEEP
Kingly address SIRE
Lament BEMOAN
Letters after © at the end of ''Shrek'' MMI
Line from ''Do You Hear What I Hear?'' WITHATAILASBIGASAKITE
Line from ''It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas'' SOONTHEBELLSWILLSTART
Line from ''Jingle Bells'' INAONEHORSEOPENSLEIGH
Line from ''Rockin Around the Christmas Tree'' ANDWELLDOSOMECAROLING
Line from ''We Need a Little Christmas'' SANTADEARWEREINAHURRY
Links org PGA
Live and breathe EXIST
Long fish EEL
Longest-serving current Justice SCALIA
Major accumulations PILEUPS
March parade VIP STPAT
Marginal jotting NOTE
Massive mammal RHINO
Microsoft's calling company SKYPE
Misrepresent SKEW
Murphy of movies EDDIE
Needs a rubdown ACHES
New frat brothers, perhaps SOPHS
New Orleans cuisine CREOLE
Norwegian coins KRONER
Obsolescent skill LOSTART
On-demand planes AIRTAXIS
Painting technique IMPASTO
Part of TGIF ITS
Phone-bk. listings NOS
Pitched superbly against NOHIT
Place to build on SITE
Plaster backing LATH
Plumlike fruit SLOE
Political pamphlets TRACTS
Protective suit ARMOR
Purely ALL
Reliable STEADY
Requirements DOS
Romanian tennis star of the '70s NASTASE
Scarlett O'Hara portrayer LEIGH
Schoolbook TEXT
See 19 Across RING
Self-possession POISE
Showy flower PHLOX
Snoops (around) POKES
Solitary LONE
Sound of leaves RUSTLE
Stinging remarks BARBS
Sundial numeral III
Swelter ROAST
Take to court SUE
Telltale sign ODOR
Telltale sign SMELL
Tennis officials UMPS
Tourist destinations SIGHTS
Tree in front of the White House ELM
Trio on older phones PRS
Typical Woodstock attendee HIPPIE
Ultimate cause ROOT
Upper hand EDGE
USMC one-striper PFC
Versace rival ARMANI
Voicemail sound TONE
Watch the grandchildren SIT
Well-put APT
What a wife may be called MRS
With 21 Across, bit of a fried side ONION
Woodland goat-man SATYR
Zodiac symbol SCALE
__ Arbor, MI ANN