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''Airport'' author HAILEY
''Numb3ers'' network CBS
''Simpsons'' grandpa ABE
''Star Wars'' series villain JABBA
''The Scream'' artist MUNCH
''Your Show of Shows'' luminary COCA
Architectural wings ELLS
Authentic REAL
Author Bellow SAUL
B-flat equivalent ASHARP
Basket on a desk INBOX
Be dismissed GETTHEBOOT
Be just right FITLIKEAGLOVE
Belgrade resident SERB
Bistro CAFE
Bit of salt PINCH
Blackthorn berry SLOE
Blown away by INAWEOF
Brazen SAUCY
By barter INTRADE
Campus marchers ROTC
Carry-alls TOTES
Cather title character ANTONIA
Chekhov title character OLGA
Chinese ''way'' TAO
Clown of renown BOZO
Clucked in disapproval TSKED
Coll. dorm overseers RAS
Colombian city CALI
Compute, sometimes ADD
Computer graphics-file format JPEG
Confuses TIESUPINKNOTS
Crankcase contents OIL
Crunchy veggie CELERY
Deck cleaners SWABS
Dining group PARTY
Disreputable SEEDY
DMV ritual EYETEST
DNA source GENEPOOL
Doing nothing IDLE
Drawer freshener SACHET
Dread FEAR
Dust-up SETTO
Dust-up STIR
Dust-ups ROWS
Early 20th-century anarchist SACCO
Eat ravenously SCARFDOWN
Editor's elimination DELE
Elapse GOBY
Emulate a peacock PREEN
Exchange SWAP
Finish up END
Flying start AERO
Football player's protection KNEEPADS
Fully expects to SHALL
Funny business HANKYPANKY
Furry marsupials KOALAS
Garage job LUBE
Get away from ELUDE
Give as an example CITE
Goof MESSUP
Green land's nickname ERIN
Gumbo chefs' needs OKRAS
In the offing AHEAD
Increase GOUP
Is dazed REELS
Israeli statesman EBAN
It means ''straight'' ORTHO
Jog TROT
Lager alternative ALE
Light brown ECRU
Like a twang NASAL
Loads ALOT
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Luau activity HULA
Luck's title LADY
Mag publisher Forbes STEVE
Major portion BULK
Many profs. DRS
Maritime greeting AHOY
Mature AGE
Medieval weapon CROSSBOW
Messy places STIES
Mexican uncle TIO
Mission-scrapping phrase NOGO
Morn's opposite EEN
Most with August birthdays LEOS
Mother-of-pearl sources ABALONES
Mouse sound SQUEAK
Narrative TALE
Nasal appraisal ODOR
Naval builder SEABEE
Needed directions GOTLOST
Nev. neighbor ORE
Nigeria's former capital LAGOS
Not fooled by ONTO
Number for an acid LOWPH
Oaxaca women SENORAS
Old-time oath EGAD
One-half of a fluid oz. TBSP
Overstuff CRAM
Painter Matisse HENRI
Paradise EDEN
Pat on gently DAB
Peck, for one KISS
Persuades COAXES
Play in a play ACT
Preeminent existentialist SARTRE
Prince Charles, e.g. HEIR
Quaint stops INNS
Rib KID
Saves SOCKSAWAY
Schemes PLOTS
Score signs CLEFS
Script departure ADLIB
Seattle Storms' org. WNBA
See eye to eye AGREE
Send SHIP
Shakespearean nickname KATE
Sharp ACUTE
Shoemaker's inventory SOLES
Showy display ECLAT
Sinai Peninsula's Gulf of __ AQABA
Singer Merman ETHEL
Sings like Sinatra BELTSOUTABALLAD
Solid shape SPHERE
Some ABITOF
Southeast Asians THAIS
Spiritual leader GURU
Splinter group SECT
Start of a Mother Goose rhyme PATACAKE
Struck down, long ago SMOTE
Styles MODES
The A in EAP ALLAN
The first second son ABEL
Topic for debate ISSUE
Treats, as a sprain ICES
Tyrant DESPOT
Unprocessed RAW
Walking the line ONSTRIKE
Western Belle STARR
Whiskers groomer RAZOR
Wicker source RATTAN
With very little encouragement ATTHEDROPOFAHAT
Yap MOUTH
__ Arena (Sacramento Kings' home) ARCO
__ Street (Memphis blues center) BEALE