New York Times - Dec 14 2011

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'Cease' and 'desist,' e.g.: Abbr SYNS
'Chocolate' dog LAB
'Doesn't thrill me' MEH
'Gotcha!' ISEE
'Hänsel ___ Gretel' UND
'No Such Thing' blues rocker JOHNMAYER
'Proved!' letters QED
'Rude' sound LONGU
'Yoo-hoo!' HEY
Adrien of 'The Pianist' BRODY
Alphonse's comics partner GASTON
Annual parade honoree, informally STPAT
At a cruise stop, say INPORT
Backing strip LATH
Barbuda's island partner ANTIGUA
Barker and Kettle MAS
Black, to bards EBON
C.S.A. part: Abbr AMER
Camera type, in brief SLR
Chekhov uncle VANYA
Close by, in poems NIGH
Consumer products giant, briefly PANDG
Cornell of Cornell University EZRA
Cuneiform discovery site AMARNA
Descartes's 'therefore' ERGO
Euro fraction CENT
Fish-eating raptor OSPREY
Geisha's tie OBI
Get, as profits REAP
Helen's city TROY
Holy city of Iran QUM
Hoopster with six rap albums, for short SHAQ
Horse to be broken BRONC
Hurled weapon SPEAR
Ill temper IRE
Inconsistent root beer brand? UNEVENBARQS
Kind of fly, informally SAC
Like a D- POOR
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Local ascetic? COUNTYFAQIR
Make note of, with 'down' JOT
Mesopotamia? TRADITIONALIRAQ
Metrosexual's tote MANBAG
Motorola cell phone brand RAZR
Movie camera settings TSTOPS
Mr. America's pride PHYSIQUE
Pasadena posies ROSES
Pizzeria chain, informally UNOS
Popular swab QTIP
President who said 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' REAGAN
Put down, as a riot QUELL
Put the kibosh on END
Qaddafi's rise to power, e.g COUP
Red wine of Spain RIOJA
Regarding, on memos INRE
Ring foe of Manolete TORO
Role in 'Son of Frankenstein' YGOR
Run into unexpected trouble HITASNAG
Santa ___, Calif ANA
Sealer's stuff TAR
Sequence sung by kids EIEIO
Soapmaking compound OLEICACID
Some Mideast laptops? QATARICOMPUTERS
The New Yorker cartoonist Peter ARNO
They may be even, ironically ODDS
Top awards at los Juegos Olímpicos OROS
Trade center MART
Transplants, in a way REPOTS
U.F.O. crew ETS
Vintners' prefix OENO
Vintners' valley NAPA
Voodoo charm MOJO
W.W. I mil. group AEF
Wakens AROUSES
___ Paese cheese BEL
___ Quested, woman in Forster's 'A Passage to India' ADELA
___ vez (again: Sp.) OTRA