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''That's unlikely'' IDOUBTIT
''__ directed'' (medicine warning) USEAS
American Express rival VISA
Arctic ice sheets FLOES
Attach, as a button SEWON
Baby's sock BOOTEE
Backpacker's shelter TENT
Basics to learn ABCS
Birchbark boat CANOE
Blood vessel ARTERY
Brief craze FAD
By oneself ALONE
Cal. summer hours PDT
Chilly COLD
Christmas song NOEL
Cold War initials USSR
Cornstalk features EARS
Deceptive tactic RUSE
Declares openly AVOWS
Defeat BEAT
Design theme MOTIF
DNA locales CELLS
Do in, as a dragon SLAY
Eagle's claw TALON
Egg on URGE
Equivalent of A sharp BFLAT
Exist ARE
Facing the pitcher ATBAT
Fence stake POST
First man ADAM
Food court site MALL
Full of life EXUBERANT
Full of life VIVACIOUS
Full of life ENERGETIC
Full of life SPRIGHTLY
Gem surfaces FACETS
Grad ALUM
Greenish blue TEAL
Gung-ho AVID
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Happy GLAD
Hole __ (golfer's dream) INONE
Item of value ASSET
Long gun RIFLE
Lubricate GREASE
Made lasting curls, as with hair PERMED
Make ready, briefly PREP
Maritime rescue org USCG
Navigation aid, for short GPS
Nile vipers ASPS
Noose, for example LOOP
Not busy at all IDLE
Not long past RECENT
Nothing special SOSO
Nothing, informally ZIP
Pepsi or Coke COLA
Princess' crown TIARA
Put a curse on JINX
Quaint oath EGAD
Ready for picking RIPE
Rebuke harshly BERATE
Rushed SPED
Semesters TERMS
Ship securer ANCHOR
Snow glider SLED
South Pacific nation FIJI
Speeders' penalties FINES
Square or circle SHAPE
Standing upright ERECT
Start over with REDO
Stick around STAY
Successful show HIT
T. Rex, for one DINO
Tattletale RAT
Treetop home NEST
Tubular pasta ZITI
Turn out to be ENDUP
Unwraps impatiently RIPSOPEN
Vine-covered IVIED