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Clues Answers
''Exodus'' author URIS
''I want to know . . .'' TELLME
''I warned you!'' SEE
''Obviously!'' NODUH
''Telephone'' game of a sort TAG
''The Python Years'' diarist PALIN
2006 Court appointee ALITO
Academic periods TERMS
Al or Bobby of racing UNSER
Alerts from PDs APBS
Artichoke serving HEART
Attack from all sides BESET
Ave. crossers STS
Bag-screening agcy TSA
Ballet move PLIE
Barely passing grade DPLUS
Battery pole ANODE
Be worthy of RATE
Bearded beast GNU
Belief system CREED
Big talk BOAST
Bit of heredity GENE
Black, in verse EBON
Boot part TOE
Brassy BOLD
Briefly worded TERSE
Brigham Young University city PROVO
Bull Run battlefield MANASSAS
Calligrapher's tip NIB
Car's custom ID VANITYPLATE
Carpentry tools PLANES
Certain Ivy Leaguer ELI
Certain palm-tree fruit ACAI
Cheater's references CRIBSHEETS
Cheney successor BIDEN
Clucked disapprovingly TSKED
Committee leader CHAIRPERSON
Compose, as prose WRITE
Computer operators USERS
Cops' org PBA
Covers with concrete PAVES
Cozy spot NOOK
Cry of accomplishment TADA
Dairy sounds MOOS
Days __ (yore) OFOLD
Deer relative MOOSE
Demean ABASE
Easy life BEDOFROSES
Entertainer Bette MIDLER
Escorted to one's office HADUP
Espresso beverage LATTE
Evert of tennis CHRIS
Executive Department appointment CABINETPOST
Fabric quantities BOLTS
Felt sore ACHED
Filled and then some SATED
Fishing-line mishap SNAG
Floppy-eared dogs SPANIELS
Former ''Top Chef'' judge EMERIL
Game with kings and queens CHESS
Girl in the ''Little House'' series LAURA
Gladden ELATE
Go really fast TEAR
GPS reading ENE
Gravy holder BOAT
Greedy person TAKER
Gruff HARSH
Had a hankering YEARNED
Hardwood trees ELMS
Helper AIDE
High society ELITE
Clues Answers
Highway markers CONES
Historical span ERA
In unison ASONE
Islam's Almighty ALLAH
Italian wine region ASTI
Jag alternative VETTE
Keep hidden SECLUDE
King of rhyme COLE
Kissed quickly PECKED
Large lake since the 1930s MEAD
Laundry room bottle SOFTENER
LAX predictions ETAS
Leak slowly SEEP
Ledger entry DEBIT
Legendary trailblazer BOONE
Lute-shaped fruit PEAR
Milanese money EUROS
Milk mishap SPILL
Mine transports TRAMCARS
Molecule part ATOM
MS. enclosure SASE
Munched on ATE
Musk of Tesla Motors ELON
Name on the cover of ''The Odd Couple'' NEIL
Nearsighted toon MAGOO
New Testament king HEROD
News executive BUREAUCHIEF
Northeastern capital ALBANY
Odd-numbered page RECTO
Only just BARELY
Operatic selection ARIA
Paid promos ADS
Paper purchase REAM
Pectoral, e.g CHESTMUSCLE
Pheasant female PEAHEN
Place for a figurehead BOW
Poet Pound EZRA
Precedent setter TESTCASE
Publicity ploy STUNT
Quebec neighbor MAINE
Reacts angrily to SNARLSAT
Recipe amount TABLESPOON
Red-ink figure LOSS
Render inoperative VOID
Salad green CHARD
Scoundrel KNAVE
Shrek's love FIONA
Significant other MATE
Singing group CHOIR
Sleep symbols ZEES
Speak from a lectern ORATE
Spectrum revealer PRISM
Spine-tingling EERIE
Standards of excellence BENCHMARKS
Suffix in cellular biology PLASM
Summertime woe HEATRASH
SUV ancestor WAGON
Tampers with RIGS
Thrifty, in brand names ECONO
Tiresome talker BORE
To be: Lat ESSE
Turns to slush MELTS
Underway, to Sherlock AFOOT
Undue quickness HASTE
Unspoken TACIT
USPS deliveries LTRS
USPS deliveries PKGS
What encloses some cells IRONBARS
Whodunit informer STOOLPIGEON
Winslow Homer work SEASCAPE
Worker's raise WAGEHIKE