Wall Street Journal - Dec 21 2012 - December 21, 2012 - Chillin' Out

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Clues Answers
'...___ man put asunder' LETNO
'Back in Black' rockers ACDC
'Catalan Landscape' painter MIRO
'Elementary' airer CBS
'It's possible' COULDBE
'Must've been something ___' IATE
'Once There Was ___' (Steinbeck book) AWAR
'So that's your little game!' OHO
'When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it' speaker SAMSPADE
'White Noise' novelist Don DELILLO
'Zip-___-Doo-Dah' ADEE
'___ Fine' (hit for the Chiffons) HESSO
1961 hit for the Shirelles MAMASAID
1997 bestseller by Charles Frazier COLDMOUNTAIN
Abu ___ DHABI
Act the heckler JEER
Adams, Grant and Carter AMYS
Afresh DENOVO
Amahl's creator MENOTTI
Astringent fruits SLOES
Audie Murphy movie '___ Crooked Trail' RIDEA
Basketball victory souvenir NET
Bernanke's domain, with 'The' FED
Big brute APE
Bluffer's giveaway TELL
Bookstore section SCIFI
Brit's bouillons BEEFTEAS
Broadway biodrama of 1989 TRU
Bullring bravos OLES
Burnt to a crisp, say INEDIBLE
Catcher's posture SQUAT
Check the fit of TRYON
Christmas tree, often FIR
City near Monte Vesuvio NAPOLI
Conical tent TIPI
Craggy peak TOR
Creator of the Grinch DRSEUSS
D.C. baseballer NAT
December 21, and the occasion for this puzzle's theme FIRSTDAYOFWINTER
Designer Oldham TODD
Destroys gradually ERODES
Diplomatic success ACCORD
Director Preminger OTTO
Easy ___ ASABC
Emphatic ending for yes or no SIREE
End of the third qtr SEPT
Exec. level MGT
Face on a fiver ABE
Finland, to a Finn SUOMI
First lady before Michelle LAURA
First name at Woodstock ARLO
Flier to Ben Gurion International ELAL
Flower's sepals, collectively CALYX
Former gambling spots in NYC OTBS
Former steel giant ARMCO
Fusion MIX
George Clooney's Max and others PETPIGS
Goatlike mammal of Asia SEROW
Golden rule preposition UNTO
Golf's Ernie ELS
Good and evil, e.g POLAROPPOSITES
Good, to Guillermo BUENO
Grab bag OLIO
Graceful antelope ORIBI
Guitarist Cooder and namesakes RYS
Handpick SELECT
Hanging on every word RAPT
Has a slow flow OOZES
He lost the popular vote to Tilden HAYES
He lost to Franklin in 1936 ALF
Home to the town of Christmas: Abbr FLA
Clues Answers
Horizon happening MOONSET
How presents are often opened EAGERLY
In an opulent way LUSHLY
Inscribed slab STELA
Instrument with metal keys OBOE
Intravenous solution SALINE
It merged with Minolta in 2003 KONICA
Joined the crew ROWED
Kids' guessing game ISPY
Knocker's reply ITSME
Left half of the home keys ASDF
Letter writing, some would say LOSTART
Life partner? TIME
Like a seventh of the world's people AFRICAN
Lincoln or Rockefeller: Abbr CTR
Long cigars CORONAS
Made a concerted effort STROVE
Made ends meet somehow SCRAPEDBY
Maker of the Royale sedan REO
Money maker PRO
Mount Kosciuszko setting AUSTRALIA
MPs' quarries AWOLS
Name on many a hospital STLUKE
Norse pantheon AESIR
Not opt REQD
Oilfield sight WELL
Omaha Beach event DDAY
Parisian possessive MES
Paul Prudhomme cuisine CAJUN
Pinball stopper TILT
Pou ___ (base of operations) STO
Priam's home TROY
Prone to prying NOSY
Qatar's capital DOHA
Quiet 'Hey!' PSST
Salon jobs DOS
Satirist Mort SAHL
School near Windsor ETON
Sharon of 'Dreamgirls' LEAL
She played Leslie Howard's wife in 'Intermezzo' EDNABEST
Shortage DEARTH
Site offering Wi-Fi HOTSPOT
Skater's surface ICE
Small songbird TIT
Some reindeer ARCTICCARIBOU
Song first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950 FROSTYTHESNOWMAN
Spot for a Santa STORE
Stadium sections TIERS
Succotash tidbit BEAN
Sudden movements STARTS
Sunday seats PEWS
They can't readily be cashed in FROZENASSETS
Threatened to topple TEETERED
Till GLACIALDEPOSIT
Tim Roth TV series LIETOME
To the extent that ASFARAS
Tosspots SOTS
Track part CROSSTIE
Unspoken TACIT
Wasn't truthful TOLDAFIB
Wells and Tarbell IDAS
West Yorkshire city LEEDS
Western U. message TELEG
Wimbledon surface GRASS
Winegrowing region of France COTEDOR
Winnebago owner, for short RVER
Zellweger of 'Chicago' RENEE
___ about (around) ONOR
___ dire (juror examination) VOIR
___ mater ALMA
___-Meal (vacuum food storage system) SEALA