Newsday.com - Dec 14 2015

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Clues Answers
''It must've been something __'' IATE
''Let's get out of __!'' HERE
''Not guilty,'' for one PLEA
Alternative to suspenders BELT
Bartlett or Bosc PEAR
Basic belief TENET
Basic earrings STUDS
Birds flap them WINGS
Black-and-white cookie OREO
Blissful regions EDENS
Clown's height enhancer STILT
Colts' fathers SIRES
Cry of woe OHNO
Discontinue CEASE
Do great on a test ACEIT
Duplicate made with an office machine PHOTOCOPY
Enjoying others' company SOCIAL
Entertains at home HASIN
Feel pessimistic about DOUBT
First claim, informally DIBS
Freeze over ICEUP
Giggle sound TEHEE
Go right or left TURN
Harbor boat TUG
Have another go at RETRY
Have in mind MEAN
Have sore muscles ACHE
Husband's spouse WIFE
Initial poker payment ANTE
Kentucky Derby contender HORSE
Lasting mark SCAR
Make a trade SWAP
Male children SONS
Math proportion RATIO
Meat in a sausage PORK
Medal of Honor recipient HERO
Medical doctor PHYSICIAN
Mexican food in a shell TACO
Minor quarrel SPAT
Clues Answers
Money CASH
Mosquito attack BITE
Mountain climber's starting place BASECAMP
Newspaper articles STORIES
Out of town AWAY
Paying attention ALERT
Pebble or boulder STONE
Perform on stage ACT
Performer lists CASTS
Person filling prescriptions PHARMACIST
Pets that purr CATS
Playthings TOYS
Police's arrest list RAPSHEET
Process, as flour SIFT
Ray of sunlight BEAM
Region AREA
Religious offshoot SECT
Removes suds from RINSES
Right away, in a memo ASAP
Running-track circuits LAPS
Sauces made with basil PESTOS
Sealed up, as a carton TAPED
Shape of a wedding ring CIRCLE
Sharp pull YANK
Sloppy stack HEAP
Soft throw TOSS
State formally DECLARE
State south of NJ DEL
Stop marching HALT
Stroked, as a dog PETTED
Study of the nature of knowledge PHILOSOPHY
Tampa neighbor, for short STPETE
Tot's drink WAWA
Try to lose weight DIET
Undercover agent SPY
Unmannerly guy CAD
Venetian-blind strip SLAT
__ new world's record SETA
__ of measure (pound or mile) UNIT