Newsday.com - Dec 24 2011

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Clues Answers
''Bad'' checkup letters LDL
''Ex __, scientia'' (Apollo 13 motto) LUNA
''In your dreams!'' NOHOW
''My __!'' HERO
''The Old Man and the Sea'' craft SKIFF
''We are less than __ in this universe'': Gandhi ATOMS
Backs ISFOR
Becomes insipid CLOYS
Big house COOLER
Bums FREELOADS
Cheek INSOLENCE
Climber's sheer challenge ELCAPITAN
Coach TUTOR
Coin collector's spot TOLLHOUSE
Common comebacks OHS
Defensive line? ALIBI
Deliberate REFLECT
Digs for a count MANOR
Displaying more discernment SANER
Dominant idea THEME
Don't do anything LOAF
Doorstep delivery CAROL
Eminence NOTE
Empty INANE
Enlightenment figure KANT
Exit line TATA
Fabulous Bhutanese beasts YETIS
Film-crew VIP EDITOR
First native-born leader of his country NETANYAHU
First team to win five Super Bowls NINERS
Friend of Job ELIHU
Gather INFER
Gave a rash response to? TALCED
Ginger ELAN
Clues Answers
Implicit, perhaps UNSAID
Kazakhstan's capital ASTANA
Letter extender PPS
Make good ATONE
Manager of Pavlova and Peerce HUROK
Meanie STINKER
Melodramatic SUDSY
Microscope-slide sample SMEAR
Moon of Uranus TITANIA
Mythical South American ''giants'' ANACONDAS
Name on an 1851 classic MOBY
Name thought to be derived from the Phoenician for ''furnace'' ETNA
Oldest Best Actress Oscar winner TANDY
Plants with molds FOUNDRIES
Preserve, in a way RECORD
Principal of Chinese philosophy DUALISM
RL Stine alma mater OHIOSTATE
Rustle SWISH
Sang like the birdies sing TWITTERED
Sched. B entry INT
Small hide-bottomed boat CORACLE
Some Persians TOMS
Some UN vetoes NYETS
Statue at the FDR Memorial FALA
Stop stonewalling, maybe CONFESS
Stopgap INTERIM
Succeed ENSUE
Surname of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame brother act ISLEY
They're never picked up INSTINCTS
Thing in a holster CELLPHONE
Thought right SEENFIT
Unit of force NEWTON
Word on all US paper money TREASURER
__ bath HALF