Newsday.com - Dec 5 2011

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Clues Answers
''I'm stumped!'' DUNNO
''If all __ fails . . .'' ELSE
''__ Mio'' (classic Italian song) OSOLE
Accelerator or brake PEDAL
Ahead by a point UPONE
Air-quality org EPA
Aretha Franklin's music SOUL
Army division UNIT
Bad habit VICE
Bar of gold INGOT
Barnyard cacklers HENS
Beijing's country CHINA
Book jacket DUSTCOVER
Brief period of time MOMENT
Brief rainfall SHOWER
Brings home from the store BUYS
Business owner's goal PROFIT
Change for a $20 bill TENS
Chilled, as a drink ICED
Cluster of grass CLUMP
Crows' cries CAWS
December song NOEL
Elevates LIFTS
Emcee's opening remarks INTRO
Female deer DOE
Fine sweater material CASHMERE
Great Salt Lake state UTAH
Had a snack ATE
Hamburger topping ONION
Handbag part STRAP
Icy precipitation SLEET
Identical SAME
In a meddlesome manner NOSILY
In the know AWARE
Israeli airline ELAL
Ladies WOMEN
Late afternoon hour FIVE
Lean-__ (sheds) TOS
Long sandwiches HEROS
Clues Answers
Loud thuds BAMS
Manage somehow GETBY
Midafternoon hour THREE
Military no-show, briefly AWOL
Neighbor of Tampa, Fla STPETE
Not doing anything IDLE
Oodles ATON
Oolong and pekoe TEAS
Overwhelm with work SNOWUNDER
Poison-ivy reaction RASH
Poker-pot starter ANTE
Poodle or peke DOG
Possibly MAYBE
Read a bar code SCAN
Respectful title SIR
Rocklike STONY
Sabbaticals, for example LEAVESOFABSENCE
Sand hill DUNE
Sandwich spread, for short MAYO
School corridors HALLS
Seattle clock setting: Abbr PST
Snooty one SNOB
Strike, as with hailstones PELT
Strongly recommend URGE
Sunbather's goal TAN
Tenant's contract LEASE
The ones there THOSE
Tie up, as a boat MOOR
Took a taxi RODE
Topic of discussion THEME
Toy on a string YOYO
Unemotional STOIC
Unlocks OPENS
Wall socket OUTLET
What libraries do LEND
Wine-list choices REDS
Wise __ owl ASAN
Zealously earnest VEHEMENT
__ so (nevertheless) EVEN