Newsday.com - Jan 6 2013

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Clues Answers
''A spider!'' EEK
''Airport'' actor Van HEFLIN
''Beauty and the Beast'' girl BELLE
''Curiosity'' org NASA
''Green'' prefix ECO
''Julius Caesar'' costume TOGA
''Let us know,'' initially RSVP
''Li'l Abner'' cartoonist ALCAPP
''Paradise Lost'' villain SATAN
''Paula's Home Cooking'' host DEEN
''The Lion King'' cub SIMBA
''The Planets'' composer HOLST
''Winning __ everything'' ISNT
2012 British Open champ ELS
About .035 ounces ONEGRAM
African snakes ASPS
Airport alternative to JFK LGA
All fired up AVID
Alpaca relatives LLAMAS
Any Buddy Holly tune OLDIE
Appear that way SEEMSO
Armor, shields, etc BATTLEGEAR
Artist's digs LOFT
Baseball execs GMS
Bulk buy CASE
Bumstead's nickname DAG
Calendar notation: Abbr APPT
Carpentry tool STAPLEGUN
Ceramic squares TILES
Cheese dish RAREBIT
Climbing plant IVY
Concords, for example PURPLEGRAPES
Creaks and squeaks NOISES
Danger PERIL
Debussy's sea MER
Decree EDICT
Dinghy movers OARS
Dollar, so to speak CLAM
Earthquake SEISM
Far from land ATSEA
Finger or toe DIGIT
Football plays DOWNS
Frat letter ALPHA
Free-for-all MELEE
Furtive movements STEALTH
Gallery event ARTSALE
Garage job LUBE
Garth Brooks, by birth TULSAN
Gazed upon BEHELD
Geeks NERDS
Glitzy, briefly GLAM
Glossy fabric SATIN
Go like hotcakes SELL
Go off course YAW
Goldfish propellers FINS
Grasslands LEAS
Gymnast Rigby CATHY
Halloween decorations SKULLS
Hardly surprising TYPICAL
High-tech med. scanner MRI
Image consultant PRMAN
Immediately adjoining ENSUITE
JFK's successor LBJ
Kitchen appliances MIXERS
Large wine bottle MAGNUM
Least taxing EASIEST
Like some waves TIDAL
Line of seats ROW
Long footrace, for short TENK
Look forward to AWAIT
Luau souvenir LEI
Luggage carrier CART
Make watertight SEALUP
Clues Answers
Makes the first move STARTS
Mauna __ LOA
Meir of Israel GOLDA
Microscope part LENS
Mixed breed MUTT
Mormons' grp LDS
Move slowly CREEP
Moved furtively SNEAKED
Neck of the woods AREA
Neutral tone ECRU
Neutral tone BEIGE
Not sanctioned ILLEGAL
Novelist Zola EMILE
Numerical datum STAT
Oil-drilling equipment RIG
Oklahoma sch ORU
Olympic symbol FLAME
On ice CHILLED
On the __ (fleeing) LAM
Once more AGAIN
Outstanding STELLAR
Paint layer COAT
Palm, for one TREE
Part of USNA NAVAL
Pass, as legislation ENACT
Pasture measures ACRES
Pen pals, perhaps PIGS
Per piece EACH
Pie chart, e.g CIRCLEGRAPH
Place for compromise MIDDLEGROUND
Playground structures JUNGLEGYMS
Poet Ogden NASH
Prepare for takeoff TAXI
Producer brothers' surname COEN
Pungent-smelling ACRID
Regatta entry YACHT
Removed suds RINSED
Reporter's reference STYLEGUIDE
Room for relaxation DEN
S&L conveniences ATMS
Seesaw complement TWO
Sgt.'s superiors LTS
Shelters with stakes TENTS
Shoulder muscle, for short DELT
Show satisfaction SMILE
Single-strand molecule RNA
Sousaphone, for one TUBA
Southwest scenery MESAS
Speedy RAPID
Spiral: Pref HELIC
Sports bar fixture TVSET
Sticky stuff GLUE
Strainer SIEVE
Swampy grounds BOGS
Take forcibly USURP
Tease TWIT
Techie's campus hangout PCLAB
Time in office TERM
Tremendously ALOT
Tricolor pooch BEAGLE
Trojan War epic ILIAD
Tube trophy EMMY
Unfortunate SAD
Vague quantity SOME
Violin pins PEGS
Vivacity, in music BRIO
Warehouse platforms PALLETS
Water-cooler talk IDLEGOSSIP
Word on Irish euro coins EIRE
Worms and flies BAITS
Wreck completely TOTAL
Young ladies LITTLEGIRLS
__ chi (martial art) TAI