New York Times - Dec 22 2013

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Clues Answers
'Cloud Shepherd' artist JEANARP
'Don Quixote' composer STRAUSS
'Say what?' HUH
'The Caine Mutiny' captain QUEEG
2-Down, for one ORE
Amarillo-to-Dallas dir ESE
Bach's '___, Joy of Man's Desiring' JESU
Beatles tune from 'A Hard Day's Night' IFIFELL
Bedub ANOINT
Big money units, in slang GEES
Bit of winter sports equipment SKI
Boo-boos ERRORS
Braced (oneself) NERVED
Bride of 1981 LADYDI
British rule in India RAJ
Broad DAME
Charge carrier ION
Charged RANAT
Chef Lagasse EMERIL
China producer SPODE
Common game piece DIE
Compact Olds ALERO
Cousin of 'aargh!' ACK
Cries of joy OOHS
Cry from Scrooge BAH
Departs GOES
Done: Fr FINI
Ear-related study OTOLOGY
Eastern holiday TET
European capital BERNE
Expulsion OUSTER
Expulsion, as of a foreign diplomat RENVOI
Extension ADDON
Fr. holy woman STE
Funny Anne MEARA
Futuristic weapon RAYGUN
Futuristic weapon PHASER
General ___ chicken TSOS
Give it the gas FUELTANK
Giving a boost UPRAISING
Good scores in diving NINES
Good source of aluminum BAUXITE
Gray ASHEN
Greek diner order GYRO
Greek earth goddess GAEA
Guest-star in, say APPEARON
Half of a noodle dish? MEIN
He's no Einstein MORON
Help to harm ABET
Hilarious types RIOTS
Home of Thunder Bay: Abbr ONT
House committee chairman Darrell ISSA
How-___ TOS
Hydrocarbon suffix ENE
Idiosyncrasies TICS
In the role of QUA
Iowa city AMES
It may be full of icons DESKTOP
Item in Santa's sack TOY
Jules or Jim in 'Jules et Jim' AMI
L.G.B.T. rights advocate ACLU
Lands DOCKS
Lead-in to while ERST
Like a rendition of 'Deck the Halls' SPIRITED
Like many coats and tunes BELTED
Lose traction SKID
Majority owner of Chrysler FIAT
Make calls REF
Many an early French settler in America HUGUENOT
Mercurial FICKLE
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Mexican sauces MOLES
Mideast capital SANA
Mideast national ISRAELI
Mideast ruler SAUD
Mideast ruler AMIR
Millennia on end EONS
Moneymaker for Money PRINTAD
More off-putting ICKIER
Mrs. ___ cow OLEARYS
Much FAR
Name on a swim cap SPEEDO
Nettle IRK
New hire, typically TRAINEE
Nile deity ISIS
Nuke ZAP
Number-crunching grp CPAS
One more ANOTHER
One of 11 pharaohs RAMSES
One ___ customer TOA
Overseas assembly SENAT
Part of a pharaoh's headdress ASP
Play callers, for short QBS
Preserve, in a way CAN
Ransacks LOOTS
Reproductive stock GENEPOOL
River of Pisa ARNO
Robe closer OBI
Rural storage SILO
See 27-Across III
Self-sealing bag ZIPLOC
Sister of Helios EOS
Slanting ATILT
Some H.S. math ALG
Some wings ELLS
Something it's not good to go to POT
Son of ___ GOD
Spanish cession in the Spanish-American War GUAM
Special mall event TENTSALE
Special seating area in an airplane EXITROW
Strain SIFT
Suffix with sentimental IST
Symbol of mass density RHO
Symbolic effort in support of equal rights TOKENISM
Tailors' inserts GUSSETS
Target number QUOTA
Taunt GIBE
Tease, with 'on' RAG
Termite's nemesis ANTEATER
Thriller writer Follett KEN
Throw for ___ ALOOP
Took up the slack in TAUTENED
Unknot DETANGLE
Unseen scenes OUTTAKES
Vintage wedding gown fabrics MOIRES
What cowlings cover ENGINES
Winter sports locale RINK
With 63-Down, 1997 P.G.A. champ who captained the 2012 U.S. Ryder Cup team DAVISLOVE
Without ___ (dangerously) ANET
Words that precede 'Born is the King ...' NOELNOEL
Worker with a trowel MASON
Writer Ann BEATTIE
[I'm mad!] GRR
[See blurb] MICHELANGELOSCULPTURE
[See blurb] TREETOPPER
[See blurb] AEROSMITHSONG
[See blurb] GOLFERCABRERA
[See blurb] SHOWBACKER
___ cheese BLEU
___ Rao, 'The Serpent and the Rope' novelist RAJA
___-Coeur (Paris basilica) SACRE