Universal - Dec 16 2006

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Clues Answers
''... with ___ of thousands!'' ACAST
''Sommersby'' star GERE
Alternative to pizzicato ARCO
Apportion DOLE
Beginning of a tape LEADER
Born yesterday NAIVE
Buchner's ''Leonce and ___'' LENA
Calculator that doesn't need batteries ABACUS
Certain Italian navigator VERRAZZANO
Chart table LEGEND
Chop down HEW
Chronicle SAGA
Chronology component, perhaps ERA
City howler SIREN
Completely demagnetize, e.g. ERASE
Congregational response AMEN
Curtain color, often ECRU
Digs of twigs NEST
Doppler device RADAR
Downhill aids SKIS
Eve's grandson ENOS
Far from friends FOES
Fraught with danger DIRE
Greenland explorer ERICTHERED
Humidor item, perhaps HAVANA
Humphrey's nickname BOGIE
Intent AIM
It goes over the road TAR
It touches the Pacific Rim ASIA
Item in a cheek pouch, sometimes ACORN
Kind of drink or tale TALL
Knot up ENTANGLE
Like a squid's squirt INKY
Make scholarly revisions, e.g. EMEND
Miser's pronoun MINE
Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald ZELDA
Mudder's father SIRE
Nanook's coat PARKA
Nautical hazard REEF
Clues Answers
Neck warmers BOAS
Nene and brant GEESE
New World explorer COLUMBUS
No-cal drink WATER
Nob or Bunker, e.g. HILL
Old-time transportation HORSE
Oldest of the Baldwin brothers ALEC
One place to get fresh water LAKE
Opera features ARIAS
Opposed ANTI
People rush to get in here FRAT
Place to seek sanctuary HAVEN
Poet Khayyám OMAR
Portuguese navigator MAGELLAN
Pound and Cornell EZRAS
Prepare mushrooms, in a way SAUTE
Relaxation EASE
Remove water from CONDENSE
Rocky Rockies ridge ARETE
Set apart INSULATE
Sheepish farewell? BAABAA
Show scorn, in a way SNORT
Smart-mouthed SASSY
Social class CASTE
St. ___ Cathedral, London PAULS
Stun with brilliance DAZZLE
Super duper? LIAR
That, in El Salvador ESA
They handle a lot of returns IRS
Title for Helmut Kohl HERR
Transpire OCCUR
Unafraid FEARLESS
Urgency HASTE
Usher's objective SEAT
Wear the disguise of GOAS
Where one may wallow MIRE
Wings on buildings ELLS
Word with ''bank'' or ''student'' LOAN
___ contendere NOLO