NY Times, Sun, Dec 14, 2003 BRANCHING OUT

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Across		Down
1. Creepy sort, for short : LECH 5. View from a lighthouse : SEA 8. Lobster ___ diavolo : FRA 11. Pit stop can : STP 14. Fountain treat : MALT 18. Native Nebraskan : OTOE 19. Antiapartheid org. : ANC 20. Scale notes : RES 21. Onassis, in tabloids : ARI 22. Skating star Kulik : ILIA 23. "___ it the truth!" : AINT 24. Oxford, for one: Abbr. : HMO 25. Phone no. add-on : EXT 26. Magazine article : GUN 27. Healthful retreats : SPAS 28. Sandy tract, in Britain : DENE 29. Movie cowboy Lash ___ : LARUE 31. "Halt!" to a salt : AVAST 33. What that isn't : THIS 34. Mortimer, a real dummy : SNERD 36. Maximally chi-chi : SNAZZIEST 38. Clear the slate : ERASE 39. No longer stops? : UNCORKS 41. Tuckered out : WEARY 42. Airport city near Montreal : MIRABEL 44. Rover and Tabby, e.g. : PETNAMES 46. Tiny Tim played it : UKE 47. Scrooge overcame this : MEANNESS 48. Get-up : TOGS 49. Software program, briefly : APP 51. Sermon subject : SIN 53. Cozy retreat : NEST 54. Noodlehead : SCHMO 56. N.F.C. gridder : BUC 57. Lush : SOT 59. Diets : SLIMS 62. Attach with laces : TIEON 63. Gift exchange requirement: Abbr. : RCPT 65. Not an orig. : REPR 66. Undeclared : TACIT 67. It's heard in Islamabad : URDU 68. Kind of date : DUE 69. ___-Mère-Église, France : STE 71. Abu ___ Bay, site of Horatio Nelson's naval victory, 1798 : QIR 73. "The Gift of the Magi," e.g. : TALE 74. Sgt. and sgt. maj. : NCOS 75. Done, to Donne : OER 76. Rainbow : ARC 77. Itinerary abbr. : RTE 78. Allure competitor : ELLE 79. King in a 1978 pop hit : TUT 80. Pudding ingredient : FIG 81. Antique auto : REO 82. Directly across from: Abbr. : OPP 84. Spearheaded : LED 85. Sound from a wok : SSS 86. Hurrah for El Farruco : OLE 87. Leg bone : TIBIA 89. Hide-hair link : NOR 90. Timeline info: Abbr. : YRS 91. Salute : HAIL 92. Starting Harvard law students : ONELS 93. Without exception, after "to" : AMAN 95. Choir practice : SCALES 97. Croupiers' tools : RAKES 98. "Leave me alone!" : LAYOFF 101. Colors in cave paintings : OCHRES 102. Bourbon and others: Abbr. : STS 103. "Law & Order" type: Abbr. : DET 105. "Nobody's Fool" star Paul : NEWMAN 107. Window item : BLIND 108. Skater Midori : ITO 109. Satisfied : MET 111. One with a thick skin : RHINO 112. Ballet leap : JETE 113. Seasonal air that celebrates this puzzle's theme : OTANNENBAUM 118. Carbon compound : ENOL 119. Love symbol : EROS 120. Not give a definite answer : STRINGALONG 121. Huge win : ROUT 122. Beach shades : TANS 123. Western-themed films : HORSEOPERAS 124. Art Deco designer : ERTE		1. Fills : LOADSUP 2. Stephen, in France : ETIENNE 3. With 15-Down, what to do to reveal this puzzle's theme : CONNECTTHEDOTS 4. Subject to external controls : HETERONOMOUS 5. Satirist Mort : SAHL 6. How lemmings move : ENMASSE 7. It's often squirreled away : ACORN 8. Succumb to stage fright : FREEZEUP 9. Name fit for a king? : REX 10. Dancing siblings : ASTAIRES 11. Big stories : SAGAS 12. "Would I lie?!" : TRUSTME 13. Amount of eggnog : PINT 14. Botch the subtitles, maybe : MISTRANSLATE 15. See 3-Down : ALPHABETICALLY 16. Is a go-between : LIAISES 17. Fringe material : TASSELS 30. Motor City org. : UAW 32. "Oy ___!" : VEY 35. Chinese zodiac sign : DRAGON 37. Drummer Starkey, Ringo's son : ZAK 38. English poet Dowson : ERNEST 40. Tour de France units: Abbr. : KMS 43. "At Seventeen" singer Janis : IAN 45. It holds one cup : SAUCER 47. Alphabet sextet : MNOPQR 50. Narc's find, for short : PCP 52. British verb ending : ISE 54. Evel doings? : STUNTS 55. Ring setting : CIRCUS 56. Noted family of Flemish painters : BRUEGELS 58. Like some chords : TRITONAL 60. One whose job is a grind? : MILLER 61. War horses : STEEDS 64. Winter Palace residents : TSARINAS 65. Sprang back : RECOILED 68. Linen closet stack : DOILIES 70. Game show host who was once a CBC newsman : TREBEK 72. Car tower : REPOMAN 80. Gave birth, as on a ranch : FOALED 83. "God bless us every one," e.g. : PRAYER 87. Trattoria desserts : TORTONIS 88. Rally : ASSEMBLE 91. It will hold your horses : HARNESS 94. The boonies : NOWHERE 95. White of the eye : SCLERA 96. Ancient Greek tunic : CHITON 99. Key of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 : FMINOR 100. Disperse : FANOUT 101. Antiquaire's item : OBJET 102. Brenda of the comics : STARR 104. "Coffee, ___ Me?" : TEAOR 106. Nick of "Lorenzo's Oil" : NOLTE 108. Stick ___ : ITTO 110. ___ sandwich : TUNA 113. Kyrgyz city : OSH 114. Phoenix-to-Flagstaff dir. : NNE 115. Mania subject? : EGO 116. Brief time out? : NAP 117. Some old roadsters : MGS