Newsday.com - Dec 8 2006

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Clues Answers
''Cheers'' regular CLIFF
''Drab'' color OLIVE
''New Yorker'' cartoonist ARNO
'80s sitcom ALF
14th of Adar PURIM
Almost there SONEARYETSOFAR
Almost there CLOSEBUTNOCIGAR
Almost there NOTEXACTLYRIGHT
Almost there JUSTABITOFFKEY
Ambiance AURA
Ancient fabulist AESOP
Basketry willow OSIER
Boomer progeny GENX
Brilliance ECLAT
Bucks CASH
Chum PAL
Courage HEART
Cut corners SKIMP
Donkey sound BRAY
Double reed OBOE
Dressed (in) CLAD
Eagle's egg site AERIE
Exploit GEST
Farm machine GIN
Floundering ATSEA
Flowed into FED
Fly alone GOSOLO
For all time EVER
Get rid of LOSE
Get wind of LEARN
Gibbons, for example APES
Greek vowels ETAS
Ineffectual LAME
Intelligence gatherer SPY
It's a little over a foot SHIN
Judy's daughter LIZA
Jumble HASH
Lilliputian TEENY
Long story SAGA
Clues Answers
Low-tech propeller OAR
Made to fit SIZED
Mantle teammate BERRA
Med. specialty OBGYN
Mideast bigwig EMIR
Network of four British galleries TATE
No gentleman CAD
Northern Indian city AGRA
Not up SAD
Other ELSE
Partakes of USES
Pasta : al dente :: porterhouse : __ RARE
Perry's penner ERLE
Persian poet OMAR
Personal reps. AGTS
Polka cousin REEL
Principal CHIEF
Property claim LIEN
Pun responses GROANS
Read, as ''Le Monde'' LIRE
Really soak SOP
Robin's partner BATMAN
Rope fiber JUTE
Rose fast SOARED
Russo of ''Ransom'' RENE
Salon specialists DYERS
Saucy PERT
Say again ECHO
Situate BASE
Sony competitor SANYO
Source of dog distress FLEA
Striated marble AGATE
Tie up tightly TRUSS
Treble-staff starter GCLEF
Upper-heart chambers ATRIA
Very small sum SONG
Word before Major or Minor URSA
Work of praise ODE
__-deucy ACEY