Newsday.com - Dec 28 2006

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Clues Answers
''Ars gratia __'' ARTIS
''My __, the doctor'' SON
''We're in trouble'' UHOH
Aardvark's morsel ANT
Abrasive stuff GRIT
Accomplish ATTAIN
Aerial stunt LOOP
Andean flier CONDOR
Back talk LIP
Bakery loaves RYES
Ballgame delayer RAIN
Bestowed kudos on LAUDED
Big Apple tennis stadium ASHE
Blubbered BOOHOOED
BMW competitor AUDI
Chinese-born architect PEI
Choice word ELSE
Coagulate CLOT
Completely unfamiliar ALIEN
Contaminant-free PURE
Cooing bird TURTLEDOVE
Crackerjack ADEPT
Does batik DYES
Does something ACTS
Donald Duck nephew LOUIE
Elks' home LODGE
Fair-to-middlin' SOSO
First of a doubleheader OPENER
Forest foragers DEER
French river bank RIVE
Fruit coat PEEL
Give 10% TITHE
Hold for later SETASIDE
Ill-mannered LOUTISH
Info-gathering exchange QANDA
Intellectual's retreat IVORYTOWER
Inventor Howe ELIAS
Jacques of ''Mon Oncle'' TATI
Lean and muscular WIRY
Clues Answers
Lena of ''Chocolat'' OLIN
Like butter OILY
Loses firmness SAGS
Lunar valley RILLE
More crafty SLIER
Mucky stuff MIRE
Netman Agassi ANDRE
Neural transmitter AXON
Nobel author Wiesel ELIE
Nolo condendere, e.g. PLEA
Noodlehead DOLT
Off the mark WIDE
Old phone feature ROTARYDIAL
Old South DIXIE
Old Trevi toss-in LIRA
Perform an aria SING
Propel, as a shot PUT
Put into service USE
Rescue, with ''out'' BAIL
Resell illegally SCALP
Rigging support SPAR
Scavenging beast HYENA
Shore-defense group COASTGUARD
Shows disdain for SCORNS
Soda-bottle size LITER
State one's view OPINE
Stood up ROSE
Sunni Triangle locale IRAQ
Taking five RESTING
Threw forcefully HURLED
Toledo's lake ERIE
Tony or Oscar AWARD
Tot's ''piggies'' TOES
TV handyman VILA
Wheels, so to speak AUTO
Work hard TOIL
Working hard ATIT
Wows, in comedy SLAYS
__ mater ALMA