New York Times - Dec 23 2011

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Clues Answers
'Evita' narrator CHE
'I'm very impressed!' BRAVO
'The Luck of Roaring Camp' writer HARTE
'Trinity' novelist URIS
Actress Tierney MAURA
Add numbers to, say PAGINATE
Albert's love in 'Bye Bye Birdie' ROSIE
Battled WARRED
Birthplace of Virgil MANTUA
Blood shed on Mount Olympus ICHOR
Bolted MADEARUNFORIT
Branch of mathematics LOGIC
Bread box? SAFE
Change for the better AMEND
Couldn't stop obsessing about GOTHUNGUPON
Creator of many talking animals AESOP
Cross SORE
Decides to try INDICTS
Did Jeeves's job VALETED
Flower named for its resemblance to a turban TULIP
Game you can't lose twice RUSSIANROULETTE
How Pyrrhic victories are won ATAPRICE
Initiated, as an undertaking SPEARHEADED
Insects HEXAPODS
Irving Berlin's 'Always,' e.g BALLAD
It grows older and then croaks POLLIWOG
Largest moon in the solar system with a retrograde orbit TRITON
Maintain AVER
Man of steel? STATUE
Manufacturer of bar code scanners NCR
Material for the Guinness Book ODDITIES
Clues Answers
Member of a caste system ANT
Morning weather phenomena MISTS
Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera 'A Little Nightmare Music' SALIERI
Nationwide Series events STOCKCARRACES
Nehru jackets have them MANDARINCOLLARS
Nobody SCHMO
Org. whose roots go back to the Civil War IRS
Overhead light, perhaps UFO
Part of a service TEACUP
Paul in politics RON
Poor Clares member NUN
Popular test animal in medical research RHESUS
Rap sheet abbr AKA
Renaissance painter Botticelli SANDRO
River flowing between two Great Lakes NIAGARA
Secret Service agent's accouterment EARPIECE
Seller of supplements GNC
Slaphappy, say ADDLED
Stadium shout RAH
Stealing from the collection plate, e.g SACRILEGE
Steering system components PINIONS
Sticks GORES
They put half the world down SEXISTS
Trail SCENT
Trees sought by leaf peepers MAPLES
Turns out EVERTS
Twig used in wickerwork OSIER
Typesetting no-no WIDOW
Violent upheaval THROES
Visitor at the beginning of 'The Hobbit' GANDALF
Woollike acrylic fiber ORLON