Newsday.com - Dec 24 2006

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Clues Answers
''Israel in __'' (Handel oratorio) EGYPT
''Look'' rival LIFE
''Quiet down!'' SHH
''Romeo and Juliet'' character BENVOLIO
''Times of Your Life'' singer ANKA
'80s First Son RON
Actor Arkin ALAN
Actor Baldwin ALEC
Actor Keach STACY
Actress McDowell ANDIE
Afternoon network fare SOAPS
Alternatively ELSE
And PLUS
Applies, as finger paint SMEARSON
Arrival from overseas EMIGRE
Author Ellison RALPH
Avoids a big wedding ELOPES
Baseball-card stats. HRS
Be a benefactor ENDOW
Ben-Hur, for one SLAVE
Bit of ''cartographie'' ILE
Blunted blades EPEES
Bran source OAT
Brother or sister SIB
Brown shade TAN
C-E-G, e.g. TRIAD
Candied, on menus GLACE
Cardinal point NORTH
Charles de Gaulle alternative ORLY
Checkout scanning: Abbr. UPC
City near St. Bonaventure OLEAN
Civil War side THEGRAY
Closes securely SEALS
Commercials TVADS
Common Market abbr. EEC
Compass reading NNE
Computer-game name NINTENDO
Conductor from India MEHTA
Confine HEMIN
Cooking meas. TBSP
Cozy corners NOOKS
Croupiers' devices RAKES
Daddy Warbucks henchman THEASP
Deposed OUSTED
Droxie alternative OREO
Easter entres HAMS
Ending for ethyl ENE
Engineer of the comics DILBERT
Existence BEING
Fashionable TRENDY
Fifth word of the Koran ALLAH
Fish with charges EELS
Fully expended SHOT
Gaucho's weapon BOLO
Gear on a rooftop rack SKIS
Get stuck BOGDOWN
Grazing place LEA
Group in a loft CHOIR
Hassle ADO
Health club SPA
Hibachi residue ASH
High point APEX
Homophone for ''air'' ERE
Icicle spot EAVE
Installs, as 113 Down SODS
Interject ADD
Japanese vegetable UDO
Junction point NODE
Just like ALA
Keep tabs on TEND
Keep tabs on EYE
Kicker's target, perhaps SHIN
Kyoto cash YEN
Clues Answers
Legacy recipient HEIR
Light punishments SLAPS
Line from ''Frosty the Snowman'' ILLBEBACKAGAINSOMEDAY
Line from ''Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'' HAPPYGOLDENDAYSOFYORE
Line from ''Jingle Bells'' DASHINGTHROUGHTHESNOW
Line from ''Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!'' THEFIREISSODELIGHTFUL
Line from ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town'' HEKNOWSWHENYOUREAWAKE
Ma's instrument CELLO
Mah-jongg tile BAM
McAn of shoedom THOM
Monty Python member CLEESE
Moral standard ETHIC
Needles, as a comic HECKLES
New York Mets' home SHEA
Nonsocial type LONER
Not nearly enough SCANT
Offered in abundance LAVISH
One of the Fab Four RINGO
Painter Cassatt MARY
Part of USC UNIV
Passed out DEALT
PDQ ASAP
Pern portrayer in ''Evita'' PRYCE
Pinot Noir partner EDAM
Pizza topping MEATBALL
Place of refuge HARBOR
Places for tennis LAWNS
Pop singer Paula ABDUL
Prepare for work DRESS
Product mention PLUG
Pullman or caboose CAR
Quaint hotel INN
Rds. without traffic lights HWYS
Republic that became a state TEXAS
Right-angle shape ELL
River to the Mediterranean NILE
Ruffian GOON
Sci-fi flyer UFO
Sea trip VOYAGE
Seer's asset ESP
Shirt fabric POPLIN
Signing off on OKAYING
Size up ASSESS
Soccer Hall of Fame city ONEONTA
Soprano's pride HIGHC
Sounds of fright EEKS
State bordering Baja SONORA
States firmly AVERS
Stir-fry pan WOK
Stowe character EVA
Tailor SEWER
Take a bough LOP
That guy HIM
Thunder Bay's loc. ONT
Time at the plate ATBAT
To the __ degree NTH
Toast starter HERESTO
Trees in an O'Neill title ELMS
Trespass, as a hunter POACH
Trim down PARE
Very fine NIFTY
Vocal one SAYER
Well-attired NATTY
Wharton deg. MBA
Where 41 Down originated HOLLAND
Whole bunch TONS
Word often following ''long'' AGO
Word-processor command HELP
Writer Shute NEVIL
WWII sub UBOAT
XXVI doubled LII
Yellowstone beast ELK
__ Baba ALI