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''Good'' cholesterol HDL
''Likewise'' SOAMI
''Star Wars'' royalty LEIA
''The Simpsons'' airer FOX
''Venerable'' English saint BEDE
''__ put it another way . . .'' ORTO
25 Down VIP ELGRECO
A third of ''seis'' DOS
Acknowledge LETON
Acting before thinking RASH
Aleve alternative ADVIL
American Revolution mercenary HESSIAN
Angry outburst RANT
Antlered deer STAG
Baffled ATALOSS
Becomes harder to climb STEEPENS
Bit of telegraphy SOS
Bolster PROP
Boston-area university TUFTS
Brawny bunch HEMEN
Brought up REARED
Capone associate NITTI
Cardiology concern AORTA
Casual restaurant CAFE
Choose at the polls ELECT
Cleaver MEATAXE
Curtain raiser ACTI
Dark red WINE
Dictionary designation ARCHAIC
Downhill gear SKIS
Draped dress SARI
Dressable toy DOLL
Easy chore SNAP
Eggs: Lat OVA
Emphatic refusal NEVER
End-of-term rituals FINALS
Ending for ball OON
False witness LIAR
Family nickname SIS
Family nickname GRANDPA
Far from certain IFFY
Far out OUTRE
Feasts on EATS
First-century despot NERO
Fishing gear FLYROD
Flake art news PAINTFALLINGONARENOIR
Flake medical news DANDRUFFCUREANNOUNCED
Flake political news (Arizona, November 2012) JEFFISHEADEDFORSENATE
Flake supermarket news KELLOGGSCEREALSONSALE
Flake weather news TWOFEETOFSNOWEXPECTED
Flavor enhancer letters MSG
Four Holy Roman emperors OTTOS
Free of charge NOFEE
Freezing temperatures TEENS
French monarch ROI
From the neighborhood LOCAL
Furtive summons PSST
Fuzzy images BLURS
Gauged, with ''up'' SIZED
Get tired DROOP
Gets nosy PRIES
Gives access to OPENS
Golf hazards TREES
Great potential PROMISE
Great weight HEFT
Gym handout TOWEL
Half-rectangle shape ELL
Here right now INPERSON
Hideout LAIR
Holiday precursor EVE
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Interstate patroller TROOPER
Japanese Winter Olympics city NAGANO
Jazz instrument SAX
Job opening SLOT
Light brown ECRU
Lingo suffix ESE
Little by little GRADUAL
Madrid museum PRADO
Make into firewood SAWUP
Many profs DRS
Markings on some ziti LINES
Montezuma subject AZTEC
Namely TOWIT
Napping spots, perhaps SOFAS
Narrowly defeated EDGED
Nastase of tennis ILIE
Not in the dark about ALERTTO
Not the usual thing ODD
Novelist Salman RUSHDIE
Of Thor, Odin, etc NORSE
Old Ironsides, e.g FRIGATE
One of some rolls of 50 DIME
Online rating symbol STAR
Permission to go LEAVE
Pet advocacy org ASPCA
Phoned documents FAXES
Planted seeds SOWN
Poultry purchase CAPON
Prankster's expression GRIN
Properly presented INORDER
Ranch enclosures PENS
Ray of light SHAFT
Reef material CORAL
Refer casually (to) ALLUDE
Refer to CITE
Register-receipt roll TAPE
Revered one ICON
Role for Caine or Law ALFIE
Rowboat equipment OARS
Royal flush card TEN
Ruckus ADO
S&L offering IRA
School on the Thames ETON
School support grps PTAS
Screen legend Sophia LOREN
Solemn assent AMEN
Sorbet flavor LIME
Sound of a bark ARF
Stabilizes STEADIES
State-run game LOTTO
Station wagon descendant SUV
Still competing INIT
Take __ at (attempt) ASTAB
Telegraphy pioneer MORSE
Thomas Hardy heroine TESS
Threshold DOORSTEP
Thurman of film UMA
Tomato variety ROMA
Tooth pro's deg DDS
Top-drawer AONE
Travel agent offering TOUR
Try to cool, perhaps BLOWON
Underlying cause ROOT
USAF officer MAJ
Very unlucky HAPLESS
Vote seekers POLS
What some grills run on GAS
Wheel rod AXLE
Wonder Woman portrayer Gadot GAL
__ Romeo (Italian auto) ALFA