New York Times - Dec 12 2014

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Clues Answers
'Home Alone' star, 1990 CULKIN
'Stop right there!' HEY
21-Across, e.g RAREGAS
9-5, e.g SAAB
All hits all the time? FIGHT
Annual event held in the Theresienwiese OKTOBERFEST
Big name in retail PENNEY
Brand behind the mouthwash Plax COLGATE
Broadway character who sings 'The Rumor' YENTE
Car modified for flying in 'The Absent-Minded Professor' MODELT
Ceiling CAP
Certain branches SECTS
Certain tube filler NEON
Common ground? BOSTON
Credo BELIEFS
Excited AMPEDUP
Fan's output COOLAIR
Fictional corporation that made a jet-propelled unicycle ACME
Half a nursery rhyme couple JACKSPRAT
Influential figure in upward mobility? ELISHAOTIS
Iowa politico Ernst JONI
It has points of interest LOAN
John in a studio ELTON
Judo ranking DAN
Land east of Babylonia ELAM
Licensing requirement, maybe EYETEST
Mohamed ___, Egyptian president removed from power in July 2013 MORSI
N.H.L. players' representative Donald FEHR
Not that bright PALE
Number of weeks in il Giro d'Italia TRE
Ones trying to prevent stealing BASEMEN
Person at the top of the order ABBESS
Person with important clerical duties VICAR
Planes, quaintly AEROS
Clues Answers
Politico who wrote 'The Truth (With Jokes)' FRANKEN
Pop ___ IDOL
Psych 101 subject EGO
Put up with ACCEPT
Reduces to bits RICES
Relative of a harrier ERN
Reply on the radio WILCO
Robert Goulet, e.g CROONER
Romeo's was 'a most sharp sauce' WIT
Run through the gantlet, say HAZE
Series of drug-related offenses? THEWIRE
Skin cream ingredient RETINOL
Slangy goodbye KEEPITREAL
So says PER
Square snack SALTINE
Start to play? ACTONE
Stud muffin ADONIS
Talk show V.I.P BOOKER
Talk show V.I.P.'s SIDEKICKS
Tex-Mex item TOSTADA
The tropics and others ZONES
Their best-selling (23x platinum) album had no title LEDZEPPELIN
Thickening agents? PLOTTWISTS
This is the end FINISHLINE
Time Lords on 'Doctor Who,' e.g ALIENS
Tomfoolery HIJINKS
Tree huggers? VINES
Trojan competitor UTE
Tuber grown south of the border JICAMA
Uses maximally MILKS
Wee TEENSY
When le Tour de France is held ETE
___ Ball (event at Hogwarts during the Triwizard Tournament) YULE
___ bath SITZ