Newsday.com - Dec 22 2013

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Clues Answers
''Da Vinci Code'' setting LOUVRE
''Don't you cry, I'll be __'': ''Frosty the Snowman'' BACKAGAINSUNDAE
''Holy cow!'' BOY
''I hated it!'' UGH
''Julius Caesar'' costumes TOGAS
''Say hello to friends you know and __'': ''. . . Holly Jolly Christmas'' EVERYONEEWEMEAT
''Simpsons'' bartender MOE
''Smithsonian'' space seller ADREP
''The Dragons of Eden'' author SAGAN
32 Down rite of passage PUBERTY
Abandon SCUTTLE
Adolescent TEENAGE
American Legion member VETERAN
Arise (from) EMANATE
Astronomical cloud NEBULA
Attic spaces GARRETS
Baby's sock BOOTEE
Basic cable channel USA
Be boastful BRAG
Beseech ENTREAT
Besmirch MAR
Bryce __ National Park CANYON
Button on 11 Across REC
Cabbage concoction SLAW
Cape Town cash RAND
Cargo LOAD
Carpet fabric RAYON
Carve in glass ETCH
Chew on GNAW
Chiang adversary MAO
Chills in the air NIPS
Clip-on device PAGER
Close enough INRANGE
Collect dust SIT
Coral isle CAY
Criminal charge RAP
Curtain holder ROD
DC grid STS
Decline gradually EBB
Designer Cassini OLEG
Disagreed sharply CLASHED
Dragonfly prey BEE
Duplicity DECEIT
Eight-time Oscar nominee OTOOLE
Emphatic type: Abbr ITAL
Every other tropical storm SHE
Fictional submariner NEMO
Floorboard sounds CREAKS
Flower girl, perhaps NIECE
Football filler AIR
Frat letter ETA
Governess of fiction EYRE
Head of a violin SCROLL
Heredity component GENE
Hold up ROB
Hospital area PREOP
How you start something ESS
Hugs, in a love letter OOO
Humdrum PROSAIC
Is obliged to OWES
Italian article UNO
Italian wine MARSALA
Jai-alai cheer OLE
Join forces ALLY
July birthstones RUBIES
Justice Kagan ELENA
Kid's talking toy SEENSAY
Kind of comparison ANALOGY
Largest Amer. union THENEA
Lasso loop NOOSE
Lauder of lipstick ESTEE
Law school course ETHICS
Clues Answers
Layered rock GNEISS
Leaked through SEEPED
Line from ''. . . All Ye Faithful'' OHCOMELETTUCEADOREHIM
Line from ''Silent Night'' SLEEPINHEAVENLYPEAS
Lunchtime for many NOONDAY
Make a connection TIE
Make illegal BAN
Makes over REMODELS
Mariner's signal SOS
Marshes BOGS
Metallic rock ORE
Mickelson's org PGA
Microscope part LENS
Mideast airline ELAL
Moist, as at sunrise DEWY
More than sore IRATE
Musical lament DIRGE
NBA team, for short MAVS
Netanyahu predecessor OLMERT
Novelist Hunter EVAN
Object of some cable TV ''Wars'' STORAGE
Oil ministers' org OPEC
Olympics blade EPEE
One of 88 PIANOKEY
Online sales ETAIL
Our appropriate year-end wish HAPPYHOLLANDAISETOYOU
Outspoken VOCAL
Parting words BYENOW
Perfume holder VIAL
Place for toys CHEST
Plant pests APHIDS
Poetic preposition ERE
Poker ploy RERAISE
Prefix meaning ''green'' ECO
Public uproar RIOT
Ran ahead of LED
Rude fellow CAD
Rum cocktail MAITAI
Say from memory RECITE
Second sight ESP
Shakespeare contemporary BACON
Singer whose name is an anagram of ''enlarge'' ALGREEN
Sonoran's shawl SERAPE
Start from scratch with REDO
Steer clear of ESCHEW
Struggle to hold GRASPAT
Suffix for 119 Down ITE
Tailors, at times DARNERS
Takes the plunge WEDS
Target of some spectator boos BADUMP
Teamwork disrupter EGO
Telescope's target SKY
Tenth-anniversary gift TIN
Three, in Bonn DREI
Thumbs-up vote YEA
TiVo's, e.g DVRS
Tweak text EDIT
Typical Al-Jazeera viewer ARAB
Vivaldi concerto soloist OBOE
Warm-up act OPENER
Watched Fluffy CATSAT
Way of walking GAIT
Well-put APT
What shirt collars cover NAPES
Wheels on a track RACECAR
Whichever you want ANY
Whodunit pioneer POE
Written reminder MEMO
Yogurt flavor BANANA
__ Britain (London art museum) TATE
__ Hill (San Francisco area) NOB
__ Trapp (''Sound of Music'' surname) VON