Premier Sunday - King Feature Syndicate - Dec 16 2012

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Clues Answers
'-- afraid of that' IWAS
'Call -- taxi' MEA
'Can do' NOPROB
'Cincinnati' has three ENS
'Humbug!' BAH
'I -- your disposal' AMAT
'I'm an idiot!' DOH
'Matilda' author Roald DAHL
'Night' writer Wiesel ELIE
'Oh no, a mouse! EEK
'Pay -- mind' ITNO
'SOS!' HELP
'That is -- ask' ALLI
'The -- the limit' SKYS
'This -- sudden!' ISSO
-- -i-noor (big diamond) KOH
-- cum laude MAGNA
1986 Molly Ringwald film PRETTYINPINK
A little faster than largo ADAGIO
A, in Athens ALPHA
Acey- -- (great, in slang) DEUCY
Actor Lew AYRES
Actor Roger REES
Acutely cold ICY
Ad- -- (improvise) LIB
Backbone SPINALCOLUMN
Be partial to PREFER
Big zero GOOSEEGG
Boarding a jet ENPLANING
Brief slumber NAP
Calendar box DAY
Came to light AROSE
Chi lead-in PHI
Chicago loc ILL
Confer (on) BESTOW
Conifers widely grown as houseplants NORFOLKPINES
Connect, as peripherals HOOKUP
Copy Jay-Z RAP
Coral creatures POLYPS
Cpl.'s boss SGT
Cuba's Castro FIDEL
Danish seaport ODENSE
Dip -- in the water ATOE
Dissuaded DETERRED
Downs food EATS
Elev ALT
Elevated HIGH
Ending for buff or bass OON
Enhaloed Fr. woman STE
Errand runners LEGMEN
Et -- (plus more) ALIA
Filled with exalting emotion INSPIRED
From Canada, say NORTHERN
Furious state IRE
Furniture hardwood TEAK
General -- chicken (Chinese dish) TSOS
GI's hangout USO
Giant in chips INTEL
Govt. agents TMEN
Group values ETHOS
Hard-boiled crime genre NOIR
Hearing thing EAR
Hits with fibs LIESTO
Home of the Dream Team USA
Hot dog topping RELISH
Infamy ILLREPUTE
Inferior mark DEE
Interstate pull-off point RESTAREA
Iron-pumping count REPS
Italian sculptor Andrea PISANO
Jail rooms CELLS
Joyrode, e.g WENTFORASPIN
Judge's explanation LEGALOPINION
Clues Answers
Justice Samuel ALITO
Kabul native AFGHAN
Korbut of gymnastics OLGA
Like printing-press smudges INKY
Little drink SIP
Loan accrual INTEREST
Make fresh RENEW
Mao -- -tung TSE
Medium's gift ESP
Mideast gp PLO
Mil. officers LTS
Minneapolis suburb EDINA
Miserly sort PENNYPINCHER
Most moist and soft SPONGIEST
Narcotic painkiller OPIATE
Nike rival ASICS
None at all NIL
Nonneutral particle ION
Nullify UNDO
Octa- + two DECA
Of Peru's peaks ANDEAN
Old rival of MGM RKO
Old TV part KNOB
One living abroad EXPAT
Overflow mess SPILLAGE
Palm Pilots and Droids PDAS
Paving goop TAR
PC 'oops' key ESC
Perfect site EDEN
Piano pieces nicknamed 'Winter Wind' and 'Butterfly,' e.g CHOPINETUDES
Police logs BLOTTERS
Post-waking comment IMUP
Really fancy ORNATE
Relative of 'me neither' NORI
Road curve ESS
Rocker Pop IGGY
Rod on a car AXLE
Santa -- (hot California winds) ANAS
Seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma ELRENO
See 39-Down ONS
Simian APE
Sleuth Wolfe NERO
Smart -- (wiseacre) ALECK
Some glowing rings AURAS
Sominex or Nytol tablet SLEEPINGPILL
Speedy RAPID
Spiced tea with hot milk CHAILATTE
Sprite or Tab SODA
Surgery reminder SCAR
Systems MODES
Table tennis bouncer PINGPONGBALL
Taj Mahal's town AGRA
Tall and lean LANKY
The Great Lakes' -- Canals SOO
The Stooges, e.g TRIO
Toon Boop BETTY
Tubular pasta PENNE
Undisturbed ASIS
Uninebriated SOBER
USAF bigwig GEN
Vegetable in a pod PEA
Violated IMPINGEDUPON
Waitress on 'Alice' FLO
Welles of film ORSON
Winning tic-tac-toe row OOO
With 85-Down, elaborate hoaxes PUT
With one flat, musically INF
Wives, in Germany FRAUEN
Women's casual pants CAPRIS
Wordplay bit PUN
Worker welfare agcy OSHA
Yuppie deg MBA
Zool. or geol SCI