Newsday.com - Dec 25 2007

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Clues Answers
''. . . __ saw Elba'' EREI
''Hot'' Mexican food TAMALE
''That's too bad!'' ALAS
''__ want for Christmas is . . .'' ALLI
Act testy with SNAPAT
Author Jong ERICA
Be disposed (to) TEND
Be very fond of ADORE
Black-and-white cookie OREO
Carbonated drink SODA
Choral voices ALTOS
Controls the wheel STEERS
Cultured fellow GENT
Doozy BEAUT
Due to get INFOR
Electrified fish EEL
Exact duplicate TWIN
Extremely happy ONTOPOFTHEWORLD
Family diagram TREE
Flinch WINCE
Floor models DEMOS
Florida city OCALA
Fork prong TINE
Four-door car SEDAN
Fruity desserts PIES
German auto AUDI
Gym dances PROMS
In the center of AMID
Informal farewell TATA
Informal greeting HEYTHERE
Lake boat CANOE
Lariat LASSO
Lauder of cosmetics ESTEE
Like a fox SLY
Lowest-priority ''location'' BOTTOMOFTHEHEAP
Lowly chess piece PAWN
Mediocre SOSO
Mideast airline ELAL
Milky gem OPAL
Clues Answers
Most sensible SANEST
Mystic glow AURA
Neither left nor right, politically MIDDLEOFTHEROAD
Not doing anything IDLE
Not fooled by ONTO
Nothing, in Spain NADA
Occupied a chair SAT
Oil cartel OPEC
One who doesn't mingle LONER
Pod veggie PEA
Practice boxing SPAR
Prefix meaning ''three'' TRI
Prepare for publication EDIT
Pull with force TUG
Retired fast planes: Abbr. SSTS
Road bend CURVE
Ruckuses TODOS
Sicilian volcano ETNA
Singer Celine DION
Smith or Jones NAME
Snow vehicle SLED
Sour-tasting TART
Statuesque TALL
Store event SALE
Stuffed bear TEDDY
Sunbeams RAYS
Table extension LEAF
Take to court SUE
Three-stripe soldier, for short SARGE
To no __ (useless) AVAIL
Typeface FONT
Unrestricted ABSOLUTE
Vacuum-cleaner supplies BAGS
Vicinity AREA
West African nation GHANA
__ mater ALMA
__ Moines, IA DES
__ of the above NONE
__ to (should) OUGHT