Newsday.com - Dec 23 2012

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Clues Answers
''Are not!'' rejoinder AMSO
''Hi-__, Hi-Lo'' LILI
''Il Trovatore'' heroine LEONORA
''Little Women'' woman BETH
''Norma Rae'' director RITT
''Sometimes you feel like __ . . .'' ANUT
''The medium __ message'' ISTHE
''The Mikado'' prop PARASOL
''The Wizard of Oz'' star JUDYGARLAND
''The wolf __ the door'' ISAT
''Yuck!'' EWW
''Yummy!'' MMM
''__ a hug!'' INEED
''__ helpless as a kitten . . .'' IMAS
1990s collectibles POGS
Acquired relatives INLAWS
African antelopes IMPALAS
Allow LET
Alphabetic trio RST
Ancient Peruvian INCAN
Artist using acid ETCHER
Attorney's deg LLM
Audit, as a class SITINON
Australian wild dog DINGO
Author Vidal GORE
Baby seal PUP
Become rhapsodic ENTHUSE
Becomes faint DIMS
Blues singer James ETTA
Bronze Age culture of Crete MINOAN
Call into question IMPEACH
Camper's fastener TENTPEG
Cardinal's cap BIRETTA
Cassini of fashion OLEG
Celestial sci ASTR
Chopped down HEWN
Clean air agcy EPA
Colgate competitor ORALB
Colo. neighbor NEB
Comer RISINGSTAR
Cut off gradually WEAN
De __ (too much) TROP
Decline to vote ABSTAIN
Do an alteration REHEM
Does research DIGS
Doorway part JAMB
Dorm supervisors, for short RAS
Dressing selection ITALIAN
Driver's lic., for instance IDENT
Election surprises UPSETS
Espionage org CIA
Expressive rock genre EMO
Farm tower SILO
Feathered friends AVIANS
Female rabbit DOE
Figure of speech IDIOM
Finale ENDING
Fixed allotments RATIONS
Futurist author FAITHPOPCORN
Give up, as territory CEDE
Glutted SATED
GNP, e.g STAT
Henri's health SANTE
Himalayan legend ABOMINABLESNOWMAN
Hoity-toity group SNOBS
Hotel posting RATES
Image receiver RETINA
In __ (fully) TOTO
Inedible orange OSAGE
Invitation exhortation RSVP
Iraqi port BASRA
Clues Answers
Jewelry designer Picasso PALOMA
Kissing pair LIPS
Less flexible STERNER
Lexus competitor ACURA
Listen to HEED
Lofty level ATTIC
Make a serious effort GETONTHEBALL
March Madness org NCAA
Memory slips LAPSES
Middle of the second century CLI
Misplace LOSE
Move forward PROGRESS
Nation on the Adriatic ALBANIA
Navel variety INNIE
Needle hole EYE
New start REBIRTH
Nintendo game console WII
Not quite right AMISS
October birthstone OPAL
Officially choose ANOINT
On and on ATLENGTH
Oral vaccine developer SABIN
Out of harm's way SAFE
Pack only the essentials TRAVELLIGHT
Parisian pronoun ELLE
PC linkup LAN
Piano piece ETUDE
Placing as a bet STAKING
Plumlike fruit SLOE
Poetic preposition ERE
Powerful protector GUARDIANANGEL
Powers (up) REVS
Prerecorded NOTLIVE
Presidential nickname ABE
Prong TINE
Prosecutorial aides: Abbr ADAS
Pull down EARN
Quiznos competitor BLIMPIE
Remnants TRACES
Rock guitarist Eric CLAPTON
Sam of ''Jurassic Park'' NEILL
Saturates STEEPS
School support org PTA
Seize GRAB
Silk substitute RAYON
Singing syllable TRA
Skier's course TRAIL
Soft pitch LOB
Software test version BETA
Source of an aromatherapy oil TEATREE
Speedy shark MAKO
Stick in the water OAR
Stuck in __ ARUT
Subj. for recent immigrants ESL
Suffix for fraud STER
Suffix meaning ''vision'' OPIA
Suitor WOOER
Talk big BRAG
Tango or twist DANCE
Temps SUBS
Twofold DUAL
Type of terrier CAIRN
Underwater research vessel DIVINGBELL
Valet's collection CARKEYS
Visual blowup: Abbr ENL
West Point sch USMA
Where the last words of the long answers may be found CHRISTMASTREE
Without any guarantees ASIS
Wooden runner SKI
__ colada PINA
__-European languages INDO