Newsday.com - Dec 9 2011

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Clues Answers
''Rio'' contents AGUA
Analogy phrase ISTO
Arrange in a series STRING
Aviation? WRIGHTFIELD
Bandy words SPAR
Becomes adept at MASTERS
Big brass TUBA
Break in relations RIFT
Byron or Keats ODIST
Catch a glimpse of ESPY
Charge RUSH
Cleans, as the deck SWABS
College major ENGLISH
Conscious of ONTO
Creel contents FISH
Dental stuff FLOSS
Desire desperately CRAVE
Despicable BASE
Diamond, essentially CARBON
Do damage to HARM
Door device HINGE
Downhill racer SLED
Driving need GAS
Eagerly expectant AGOG
Eerie sighting UFO
Ethnic RACIAL
Extended family CLAN
Fills with glee ELATES
First-rate AONE
Forcible takeaway zone? WRESTAREA
Frozen treat ICEPOP
Gang territory TURF
Green or blue shade NILE
Hair treatment RINSE
Head honcho BOSS
Helps in a heist ABETS
Hurl SLING
Insistent rejoinder ARESO
Intimated HINTED
Clues Answers
Kid's constant query WHY
Lay on the line RISK
Like the backwoods RURAL
Literary alter ego HYDE
Love to pieces ADORE
Man of the hour HERO
Mooring place BASIN
Morning ringer ALARM
Nonstandard contraction AINT
Not as busy SLOWER
Not very much ATAD
Oklahoma city ADA
Old hat STALE
Ordeal TRIAL
Pasture plaint BAA
Prefix for lock ANTI
Riding garb HABIT
Rugged rock CRAG
Salsa holder NACHO
Scolds, with ''out'' BAWLS
Seasonal song CAROL
Small cove INLET
Social equal PEER
Songs about stoles? WRAPMUSIC
Sorts KINDS
Sound of distress YELP
Source of enjoyment TREAT
Spanning ACROSS
Spouse of a countess EARL
Story connections STAIRS
Strange glow AURA
Tabula __ (clean slate) RASA
Toot one's horn BRAG
Top towel-twister? WRINGLEADER
Use yeast on LEAVEN
Was on the ticket RAN
Wild guess STAB
Wild time SPREE
__ Cruces, NM LAS