NY Times, Sun, Dec 21, 2003 MESSAGE FROM SANTA

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1. Select : CHOOSE 7. "Kojak" star : SAVALAS 14. When Romeo talks to Juliet on the balcony : ACTTWO 20. They can dish it out : LADLES 21. Sans sense : INANELY 22. Bit of progress : INROAD 23. Start of a Christmas verse : OHIINTENDTOGOMYROUNDS 26. Large baskets : PANNIERS 27. Fleming or Hunter : IAN 28. ___ Park : ESTES 29. Meadow : LEA 30. Fairy tale start : ONCE 31. Downed a sub, say : ATE 32. Indian council setting : TEPEE 36. Like tears : SALTY 38. Watchdog's greeting : GRR 39. Spill the beans : BLAB 43. Skater's jump : AXEL 44. "Ad ___ per aspera" (Kansas' motto) : ASTRA 46. Indonesian vacation destination : BALI 47. Fashionable beach resort : LIDO 48. Verse, part 2 : BUTIAMHEAVIERBYPOUNDS 53. "To the Poets," for one : ODE 54. The good earth : LOAM 55. Grayish : DRAB 56. Cambodian money : RIELS 57. "___ the fields we go" : OER 58. Use a wok : FRY 59. Age following the Stone Age : BRONZE 61. "Under the Volcano" star, 1984 : FINNEY 62. Certain bridge : TRESTLE 64. Laundry job : SORTING 66. Donnybrooks : MELEES 69. Unspontaneous ones : ROBOTS 71. "Wheel of Fortune" buy : ANO 72. What Eng. majors get : BAS 75. Cousin of a gnu : ELAND 76. Summers on the Seine : ETES 77. One of the Waughs : ALEC 78. Often-repeated abbr. : ETC 79. Verse, part 3 : SODOUNLATCHADOORORTWO 85. Unwrap, as a gift : OPEN 86. Not manually, after "on" : AUTO 87. Female donkey : JENNY 88. "L'___ c'est moi" : ETAT 89. Crimefighter of early '60s TV : NESS 90. "___ Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" : ITS 91. Trumpet sound : BLARE 93. Lifeless : INERT 94. 11th-century date : MLI 95. Grizzly : BEAR 96. Goat-legged god : PAN 98. Dust busters : MAIDS 100. 50 Cent piece : RAP 101. Some wedding embellishments : CORSAGES 106. End of the verse : ICANNOTFITINSIDEAFLUE 111. "Later" : NOTNOW 112. Of the lymph glands : ADENOID 113. Undivided : ENTIRE 114. Nonresident doctor : EXTERN 115. Kind of strength : TENSILE 116. Sappho's home : LESBOS		1. Sound effect in a western : CLOP 2. "That's hysterical!" : HAHA 3. God who presided over the Aesir : ODIN 4. Actor Ken : OLIN 5. In one's dotage : SENILE 6. Cosmetician Lauder : ESTEE 7. Confession recitals : SINS 8. "___ a partridge in a pear tree" : AND 9. Winery sight : VAT 10. Officially designate : ANOINT 11. Inheritance : LEGACY 12. How Santa travels : ALONE 13. Orchestra: Abbr. : SYM 14. Touchdown site : AIRSTRIP 15. Place to see a Ben Franklin portrait : CNOTE 16. Constant : TRUE 17. A huge amount : TONS 18. Real mouthful : WAD 19. Some hosp. cases : ODS 24. Span of time : ERA 25. Like Santa's visit : YEARLY 30. Norwegian king : OLAV 32. Off-limits : TABOO 33. Display : EXUDE 34. Pumpkin eater of the nursery : PETER 35. Yalie : ELI 36. Hold back : STEM 37. Neighbor of Scorpius : ARA 38. Gossip : GABBER 39. Wash whitener : BLUING 40. Table covers : LINEN 41. Confuse : ADDLE 42. High-handed : BOSSY 44. Ovid's love elegies : AMORES 45. Rural carriages : SHAYS 46. Texas river : BRAZOS 49. Sch. in upstate N.Y. : ALFREDU 50. Courtroom affirmation : IDO 51. "Ninotchka" director ___ Lubitsch : ERNST 52. Part of the Venezuela/ Colombia border : ORINOCO 59. Pie-eyed : BLOTTO 60. Renaissance fiddle : REBEC 61. Sunday best : FINERY 62. Mortise insertions : TENONS 63. Sugar plums and candy canes : TREATS 65. Claw : TALON 66. Quark-plus-antiquark particle : MESON 67. Skip off : ELOPE 68. Puts on, as cargo : LADES 70. Kyrgyz city : OSH 72. Davis of "Jezebel" : BETTE 73. Battling : ATWAR 74. "Ivanhoe" author : SCOTT 77. Top-rated : AONE 80. Settle once and for all : NAILDOWN 81. Elizabethan musician : LUTIST 82. Slightly open : AJAR 83. Wagner's "___ fliegende Hollander" : DER 84. Stimpy's TV pal : REN 91. Defeated : BEATEN 92. Rabbit furs : LAPINS 93. Bonkers : INSANE 94. Nondrinker by law : MINOR 95. Mrs. Santa Claus, long ago : BRIDE 96. Pea's place : POD 97. Dancing giddily : AREEL 98. Drudge of the Internet : MATT 99. Last of the House of Stuart : ANNE 101. Funny ___, 2003 Derby winner : CIDE 102. Ship positions : AFTS 103. Smooth-tongued : GLIB 104. Foreign money : EURO 105. Dates : SEES 106. Suffix with elephant : INE 107. Loser to Harding in 1920 : COX 108. Like Santa : FAT 109. "___ do not!" : NOI 110. Part of R.S.V.P. : SIL