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Clues Answers
''The Red, White and Blue'' USA
Add to the team HIRE
Amusingly unexpected IRONIC
Baseball manager's aide THIRDBASECOACH
Be a cast member of ACTIN
Bewilder ADDLE
Bit of body art TAT
Cajun veggie OKRA
Candymaker Willy WONKA
Charitable donation ALMS
Chicken/egg dilemma WHICHCAMEFIRST
Clears (of) RIDS
Cola-bottle size LITER
Confident poker phrase IRAISE
Connect with TIETO
Copper-coated coin CENT
Cosmetic in a pencil EYELINER
Curtain holder ROD
Explosive-regulating agcy ATF
Fishing gear TACKLE
Gets some down time RESTS
Going on, to Sherlock AFOOT
Gold ingots, e.g BARS
Golf pegs TEES
Gung-ho AVID
Heavy blow SWAT
Hockey or handball SPORT
Hourly pay WAGE
Huffy mood SNIT
In this location HERE
Kids' room clutter TOYS
Kudrow of ''Friends'' LISA
Large monkey BABOON
Large-scale MASS
Lee of Marvel Comics STAN
Lose traction SKID
Meeting's agenda item ORDEROFBUSINESS
Minestrone, for instance SOUP
Clues Answers
Mountie, for one CANADIAN
Naval lockup BRIG
Nearby, in poems NIGH
Not as much LESS
Offshore drilling structure OILRIG
Opinion piece ESSAY
Performs DOES
Persistently pesters NAGS
Picnic spoiler RAIN
Pre-adolescent TWEEN
Prefix for virus ANTI
Probabilities ODDS
Prof.'s degree, often PHD
Put faith in RELYON
Ranch workers HANDS
Reduce drastically SLASH
Rescue mission, for short EVAC
Sand bar SHOAL
Scores by QBs TDS
Scratch up MAR
Self-conscious question ISITME
Sent flying THREW
Share one's views OPINE
Shrek, for one OGRE
Slalom slope SKIRUN
Synagogue scholar RABBI
Threefold TRIPLE
Tiny amount IOTA
Tiny dot SPECK
Trial runs TESTS
Undue pressure DURESS
Vase with a pedestal URN
Vintage tune OLDIE
What fills sleeves ARMS
Windshield coloring TINT
Woodland forager DEER
Worker safety org OSHA
__ Ness monster LOCH