New York Times - Dec 23 2009

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'I dare you' JUSTTRYME
'Oh yeah ...,' in a text message BTW
'Uh-uh, bad!' TSK
'Without ___, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable': Shaw ART
'___ be an honor' ITD
+ end ANODE
1935 Triple Crown horse OMAHA
1970 Santana hit BLACKMAGICWOMAN
A writer may work on it SPEC
Animal with striped legs OKAPI
Answer to an old riddle alluded to by the starts of 17-, 32-, 42- and 64-Across NEWSPAPER
Article in El Mundo UNA
Artist Lichtenstein ROY
Ball-rolling game BOCCE
Barely making (out) EKING
Become blocked JAMUP
Break point score, perhaps ADOUT
Brief swim DIP
Buckingham Palace letters HRH
Burgundy or Chablis VIN
Campus areas QUADS
Card game for 11-Down WAR
Carrier to Copenhagen SAS
Charlie Chaplin persona TRAMP
Christmas ___ EVE
Christopher who directed 'The Dark Knight' NOLAN
Conscious AWAKE
Design deg. MFA
Erin of 'Happy Days' MORAN
Evidence in the Watergate scandal WHITEHOUSETAPES
Extinct cousin of the kiwi MOA
Finnish architect Alvar ___ AALTO
France's second-busiest port LEHAVRE
Frequent Canadian interjections EHS
Gandalf, for one MAGE
Have turkey-serving duty, say CARVE
Idol worshiper? GROUPIE
Impulsively ONAWHIM
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In vitro cells OVA
Instantly fry ZAP
It facilitates replying to a MS. SAE
It might pass une loi SENAT
Kind of pit, briefly BARBQ
Lone Star State cowboy TEX
Lungful AIR
Macho types REDBLOODEDMALES
Medical insurance portion of Medicare PARTB
Midwinter phenomenon, sometimes THAW
Misanthrope HATER
Nitrous ___ OXIDE
Onetime realm of central Eur. HRE
Orch. section STR
Org. that used to bring people to court? USLTA
Orthographer's ref. OED
Part of a postal address for Disneyland ANAHEIMCA
Pointed criticisms JABS
Reuters competitor UPI
Sam Spade type TEC
Schmo BOZO
See 32-Down TWO
Start of a counting rhyme EENIE
Strangely, it's shorter than a day on Venus YEAR
Stretch of grass SWARD
Tach reading RPM
The Hawks of the Atlantic 10 conference, informally STJOE
This very moment ASWESPEAK
Tiny recipe amount ADASH
Took care of business SAWTOIT
Trekkies' genre SCIFI
U.S. dance grp. ABT
Varying wildly ALLOVERTHEPLACE
Vim PEP
Votes for YEAS
Washington pro POL
___ Fail, Irish coronation stone LIA
___ Reader UTNE