New York Times - Dec 21 2003

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Clues Answers
'Ad ___ per aspera' (Kansas' motto) ASTRA
'Ivanhoe' author SCOTT
'Kojak' star SAVALAS
'L'___ c'est moi' ETAT
'Later' NOTNOW
'Ninotchka' director ___ Lubitsch ERNST
'That's hysterical!' HAHA
'To the Poets,' for one ODE
'Under the Volcano' star, 1984 FINNEY
'Wheel of Fortune' buy ANO
'___ a partridge in a pear tree' AND
'___ Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas' ITS
'___ do not!' NOI
'___ the fields we go' OER
11th-century date MLI
50 Cent piece RAP
A huge amount TONS
Actor Ken OLIN
Age following the Stone Age BRONZE
Battling ATWAR
Bit of progress INROAD
Bonkers INSANE
Cambodian money RIELS
Certain bridge TRESTLE
Claw TALON
Confession recitals SINS
Confuse ADDLE
Constant TRUE
Cosmetician Lauder ESTEE
Courtroom affirmation IDO
Cousin of a gnu ELAND
Crimefighter of early '60s TV NESS
Dancing giddily AREEL
Dates SEES
Davis of 'Jezebel' BETTE
Defeated BEATEN
Display EXUDE
Donnybrooks MELEES
Downed a sub, say ATE
Drudge of the Internet MATT
Dust busters MAIDS
Elizabethan musician LUTIST
End of the verse ICANNOTFITINSIDEAFLUE
Fairy tale start ONCE
Fashionable beach resort LIDO
Female donkey JENNY
Fleming or Hunter IAN
Foreign money EURO
Funny ___, 2003 Derby winner CIDE
Goat-legged god PAN
God who presided over the Aesir ODIN
Gossip GABBER
Grayish DRAB
Grizzly BEAR
High-handed BOSSY
Hold back STEM
How Santa travels ALONE
In one's dotage SENILE
Indian council setting TEPEE
Indonesian vacation destination BALI
Inheritance LEGACY
Kind of strength TENSILE
Kyrgyz city OSH
Large baskets PANNIERS
Last of the House of Stuart ANNE
Laundry job SORTING
Lifeless INERT
Like Santa FAT
Like Santa's visit YEARLY
Like tears SALTY
Clues Answers
Loser to Harding in 1920 COX
Meadow LEA
Mortise insertions TENONS
Mrs. Santa Claus, long ago BRIDE
Neighbor of Scorpius ARA
Nondrinker by law MINOR
Nonresident doctor EXTERN
Norwegian king OLAV
Not manually, after 'on' AUTO
Of the lymph glands ADENOID
Off-limits TABOO
Officially designate ANOINT
Often-repeated abbr. ETC
One of the Waughs ALEC
Orchestra: Abbr. SYM
Ovid's love elegies AMORES
Part of R.S.V.P. SIL
Part of the Venezuela/ Colombia border ORINOCO
Pea's place POD
Pie-eyed BLOTTO
Place to see a Ben Franklin portrait CNOTE
Pumpkin eater of the nursery PETER
Puts on, as cargo LADES
Quark-plus-antiquark particle MESON
Rabbit furs LAPINS
Real mouthful WAD
Renaissance fiddle REBEC
Rural carriages SHAYS
Sans sense INANELY
Sappho's home LESBOS
Sch. in upstate N.Y. ALFREDU
Select CHOOSE
Settle once and for all NAILDOWN
Ship positions AFTS
Skater's jump AXEL
Skip off ELOPE
Slightly open AJAR
Smooth-tongued GLIB
Some hosp. cases ODS
Some wedding embellishments CORSAGES
Sound effect in a western CLOP
Span of time ERA
Spill the beans BLAB
Start of a Christmas verse OHIINTENDTOGOMYROUNDS
Stimpy's TV pal REN
Suffix with elephant INE
Sugar plums and candy canes TREATS
Summers on the Seine ETES
Sunday best FINERY
Table covers LINEN
Texas river BRAZOS
The good earth LOAM
They can dish it out LADLES
Top-rated AONE
Touchdown site AIRSTRIP
Trumpet sound BLARE
Undivided ENTIRE
Unspontaneous ones ROBOTS
Unwrap, as a gift OPEN
Use a wok FRY
Verse, part 2 BUTIAMHEAVIERBYPOUNDS
Verse, part 3 SODOUNLATCHADOORORTWO
Wagner's '___ fliegende Hollander' DER
Wash whitener BLUING
Watchdog's greeting GRR
What Eng. majors get BAS
When Romeo talks to Juliet on the balcony ACTTWO
Winery sight VAT
Yalie ELI
___ Park ESTES