New York Times - Dec 15 2008

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Clues Answers
'Aw, quit your joshin'!' PSHAW
Activity in a darkened room SEANCE
Actress O'Neal TATUM
Afternoon TV fare SOAPS
Alternative to MasterCard and Visa, informally AMEX
Antiwar advocate DOVE
Attempt at getting a tan SUNBATH
Aware of ONTO
Bank offerings, briefly CDS
Become established SETIN
Belgrade's land SERBIA
Book often stored horizontally ATLAS
Call to a calf MOO
Christmas carol NOEL
City with ships at docks SEAPORT
Contentedly confident SMUG
Copycat APER
Decked out (in) CLAD
Depot: Abbr. STA
Electric current unit AMPERE
Erie Canal city UTICA
Essayist Charles's favorite entree? LAMBSHANKS
Exercise with crossed legs YOGA
Eye parts UVEAS
Gas in arc lamps XENON
Give in (to) ACCEDE
Hatcher of 'Desperate Housewives' TERI
Have a gander LOOK
Hebrew month ELUL
Hollywood's Dennis or Randy QUAID
Impressionist Edgar DEGAS
In need of a nap DROWSY
It transcends sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch ESP
Jong who wrote 'Fear of Flying' ERICA
Lady's man GENT
Lemon-___ (Kool-Aid flavor) LIME
Like a bug in a rug, according to an expression SNUG
Magician Henning DOUG
Main part of a knife BLADE
Clues Answers
Minus LESS
Money drawers TILLS
Not scheduled to compete IDLE
Officials who cry 'Yer out!' UMPS
Opposite of dry, as hair OILY
Parker ___ (game co.) BROS
Perfect tennis serves ACES
Plant with tendrils VINE
Playtex product BRA
Poet Ezra's favorite desserts? POUNDCAKES
Prefix with phobia ACRO
Prefix with present OMNI
President after Grant HAYES
Purse the lips, with 'up' PUCKER
Put up with ABIDE
Puts an end to CEASES
QB's cry after a string of numbers HIKE
Reacts to yeast RISES
River to the Caspian VOLGA
Satisfy, as thirst QUENCH
Secular LAIC
Skin of a fruit RIND
Sky-blue AZURE
Slanted type: Abbr. ITAL
Spy from within MOLE
State west of Mo. KAN
Stinging flier WASP
Stubbornness or kindliness, e.g. TRAIT
Stupefy DAZE
Taboo NONO
Tennis's Kournikova ANNA
Thingamajig DOODAD
Tug-of-war TUSSLE
Voice quality TONE
War's opposite PEACE
When said three times, a film about Pearl Harbor TORA
Winter coat material WOOL
Writer Anne's favorite dessert? RICEPUDDING
Writer Jack's favorite entree? LONDONBROIL