New York Times - Dec 5 2006

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Clues Answers
'Ho ho ho' fellow SANTA
'I had no ___!' IDEA
'Zip-___-Doo-Dah' ADEE
*Engineer from Cambridge MITGRADUATE
*Gilbert and Sullivan classic HMSPINAFORE
*Hospital diagnostic device MRISCANNER
*Where the Washington Nationals play RFKSTADIUM
Approach at a clip DASHTO
Basketry fiber RAFFIA
Before, to bards ERE
Buccaneers' home TAMPA
Calamine lotion target RASH
Carnivore's intake MEAT
Completely INTOTO
Cruel sorts OGRES
Cut out CEASE
Dean Martin's 'That's ___' AMORE
Director Howard RON
Drew in LURED
Ed of the Reagan cabinet MEESE
Eliot's 'Adam ___' BEDE
Fed. workplace watchdog OSHA
Floppy parts of a dachshund EARS
Folkie Guthrie ARLO
Forearm bones RADII
Gaynor of 'South Pacific' MITZI
Guitarist Lofgren NILS
Gung-ho feeling ZEAL
Intense dislike ODIUM
Iowa State's town AMES
Ivory source TUSK
King Minos, for one CRETAN
Lets up EASES
Longish dress MIDI
Loosen, as a corset UNLACE
Lung: Prefix PNEUMO
Machu Picchu builder INCA
Many a contract negotiator AGENT
Clues Answers
Metric feet IAMBI
Milne bear POOH
Montezuma, e.g. AZTEC
Neighbors of 43-Across ULNAS
Not so genial ICIER
Notebook projections TABS
Off-the-cuff response … and a hint to the answers to the four starred clues INITIALREACTION
Old Greek storyteller AESOP
Orders with schmears BAGELS
Page (through) FLIP
Pants part LEG
PBS funder NEA
Pestle's partner MORTAR
Place for an R.N. ICU
Prefix with structure INFRA
Prove successful PANOUT
Publicist's job HYPE
Puzzle with a start and an end MAZE
Recipe instruction STIR
Salty drop TEAR
Shows curiosity ASKS
Sigmund Freud's daughter ANNA
Sign of life PULSE
Skip past OMIT
Slave away TOIL
Something to debate TOPIC
Soprano Lehmann LILLI
Table scrap ORT
Takes a shine to LIKES
Teamsters, e.g. UNION
The year 1003 MIII
Too stylish, maybe ARTY
When lunch might end ONEPM
When said three times, a W.W. II film TORA
Word jumble: Abbr. ANAG
___ Gatos, Calif. LOS
___ l'oeil TROMPE
___ Stanley Gardner ERLE