New York Times - Dec 24 2005

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'I'm dying, Egypt, dying' speaker ANTONY
'The Four-Chambered Heart' novelist NIN
1906 novel that helped produce widespread social reforms THEJUNGLE
23rd of 24 letters PSI
Ambulance chasers SHYSTERS
Apt. specs RMS
Auspices OMENS
Blanco or Negro RIO
Bug with red and blue stripes HERBIE
Can LETGO
Canon rival RICOH
Capital served by Kotoka International Airport ACCRA
Certain League members ARABS
Chiropterologist's interest BAT
Christmas ___ EVE
Chromium use PLATING
Cissoid segment ARC
Clutch performer? TALON
Degree in martial arts DAN
Demonizing, with 'of' THINKINGEVIL
Dip IDIOT
Ellen who won three Emmys between 1973 and 1976 CORBY
Endangered Great Basin language UTE
Ends of the earth ANTIPODES
First star ever photographed, 1850 VEGA
First ___ (title for Napoleon) CONSUL
Fit ABLE
Floor exercise, in Britain PRESSUP
French writer who coined the phrase 'Facts are stubborn things' LESAGE
Froth producers YEASTS
Germany to Russia, in W.W. II EXALLY
Gloomy thistle-eater of children's lit EEYORE
Gob SCAD
Heavyweight champ, 1882-92 SULLIVAN
Clues Answers
Henry Higgins and others MALECHAUVINISTS
Hinge of a palindrome MIDDLELETTER
Hits hard, to no effect LINESOUT
It has some crust PIE
It may be blacked out TVGAME
Joke JAPE
Lively, on scores VIVO
Metric prefix ISO
Needle holders ETUIS
Nobelist who proposed a League of Peace ROOSEVELT
Old intelligence org. OSS
Ones seeking steady work? ACROBATS
Part of a modern soldier's address MIL
Pegbox holders LUTES
Pettifog NIGGLE
Post production? GRAPENUTS
Pounding, in a way PEENING
Prairie region in Kansas rich in gypsum and iron REDHILLS
Raise attentively PRICKUP
Relative of an avocet STILT
Salty hail AHOYMATE
Schlep LUG
Scrapbook fodder CLIPPINGS
Shell asset RIG
Soak GOUGE
Some driving tests ESSES
Spread out OPENED
Star of two of 1990's top 15 Nielsen-rated shows BOBSAGET
They greet each other by pressing their noses together MAORI
Thousands, slangily GEES
Troubling VEXATIOUS
Vinegar PEP
Where Elijah defeated the prophets of Baal MTCARMEL
Word of support AYE