New York Times - Dec 9 2012

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'Benny & ___' (1993 rom-com) JOON
'Girls' creator Dunham LENA
'Have You Seen ___' (1971 hit) HER
'Holy cats!' EGAD
'Love Train' group, with 'the' OJAYS
'The Christmas That Almost ___' (1966 holiday film) WASNT
'Vissi d'arte' opera TOSCA
'___ that' ROGER
1975 TV debut, briefly SNL
Ankle-length MAXI
Antipasto tidbit OLIVE
Barrelful at a hardware store NAILS
Befuddled ATSEA
Benevolent Narnia denizen ASLAN
Beverage made by squeezing fruit-filled cookies? NEWTONJUICE
Bit of news ITEM
Busybody MEDDLER
California's San ___ County MATEO
Carpal or tarsal starter META
Central parts INNARDS
Certain female grouse SAGEHEN
Checks (out) SCOPES
Chewing gum ingredient CHICLE
Claim findings ORES
Click again, maybe DESELECT
Coffee from Big Sky Country? MONTANAJOE
Conniving sergeant of 1950s TV BILKO
Copies from CD to PC RIPS
Country's Acuff or Clark ROY
Coxswain's teammates OARS
Cry from Homer DOH
Debating choice SIDE
Device with a click wheel IPOD
Distresses AILS
Early fratricide victim ABEL
Ed who wrote the 87th Precinct novels MCBAIN
Entry in a metalworker's personal planner? WELDTUESDAY
Exercised caution TOOKCARE
Exhaust TIREOUT
Fibbie GMAN
Filmmaker Lee ANG
Fishing spear? BASSLANCE
Forum wear TOGA
Frightened, in dialect AFEARD
Funnywoman Boosler ELAYNE
Furnace worker STOKER
G8 nation USA
Gall IRK
Goes under SINKS
Hanes competitor BVD
Hard water ICE
Has a capacity of HOLDS
High-flown poetry ODES
Holds up ROBS
Honey DEAR
Insurance seller AGENT
Iroquois factions TRIBES
It flows through Orsk URAL
It's suitable for framing PANE
Lagoon encloser ATOLL
Last Oldsmobile to be made ALERO
Lessened PARED
Like biopsies INVASIVE
Like Cuzco's builders INCAN
Like movies and bonds RATED
Like superfans AVID
Logical things to study? SCIENCES
Longing URGE
Looked bad in comparison PALED
Loop locale, informally CHI
Clues Answers
Loud osculations SMACKS
Low class PEONS
Meaning reverser NOT
Minor suit? GSTRING
Minor-league classification AAA
Moocher's most valuable acquaintance? RICHBUDDY
More than none ANY
Mr. ___ (old soft drink name) PIBB
Musician Shankar RAVI
Napoleon, e.g., prior to exile? FRENCHVICTOR
Nose wrinkler ODOR
Number one priority? EGOMANIA
Official seal on a Havana cigar? CUBANMARK
Oklahoma city ENID
Old photo's tone SEPIA
One called upon to talk? PHONE
Partook of ATE
Passenger ship LINER
Petroleum component ETHANE
Place to rest a guitar KNEE
Player's trophy OSCAR
Plenty LOTS
Portable diversion BOOK
Pounds and pence? LONDONJACK
Private action? SALUTE
Proctor's charge TESTEE
Refresher NAP
Rest area BEDROOM
Roast a red-breasted bird? COOKROBIN
Sacred piece ORATORIO
Sent texts to, in bygone days TELEXED
Shirt front clip-on IDTAG
Simulate FEIGN
Small sandwich OREO
Smarmy preprandial blessing? SLICKGRACE
Soprano role in 'Il Trovatore' LEONORA
Source of irritation NETTLE
Soweto uprising figure BIKO
Specifically TOWIT
Spoke to one's flock? BAAED
Stock holder BARN
Striped pet TABBY
Stuff SATE
Suffix with fatal ISM
Suspicion IDEA
Tae ___ do KWON
The Salt, in Arizona? PHOENIXRIVER
They might not be on the charts ISLES
Tick off VEX
Timeline divisions ERAS
Timeworn AGEOLD
Timid swearword DARN
Trade magazines? RELOAD
Try for a hit BAT
Turn signal? FOGHORN
Unable to pass muster, say AWOL
Undergo HAVE
Up to now YET
Uppercut target JAW
Variety show overseers MCS
Venn diagram sets, usually CIRCLES
Verizon forerunner GTE
W. Hemisphere alliance OAS
What misbehaving kids must have inherited from their parents? WILDERGENE
Where many last names start with 'O' ERIN
Wind chime location EAVES
Word written across a bad check VOID
___ Cassidy, 1970s teen heartthrob SHAUN
___ judicata RES
___ law (acronymic 1970 measure) RICO