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Clues Answers
''Just as I predicted'' TOLDYA
''Motor Trend'' specialty AUTOS
13 Across, e.g EXEC
42 gal. of oil BBL
76 suffix, in sports ERS
About 1.25'' in diameter HALFDOLLAR
About 2.5'' in diameter TENNISBALL
About 3'' in diameter LARGEAPPLE
About 4.5'' in diameter GRAPEFRUIT
Absorb information LEARN
Accumulated stake POT
Adapted (to) USED
Any jazz instrument AXE
Artistic knack EYE
Before today AGO
Benefits option HMO
Bit of barking ARF
Bridge support of a sort TRESTLE
Broadband offering DSL
Chinese green, e.g TEA
Clueless query HUH
Covered with leaves FOLIATE
Crepe cousin BLINTZ
Cuisine with fried rice THAI
Decides as a body VOTESON
Doughy ring BAGEL
Easter Island's claim to fame STATUES
Epic with Achilles ILIAD
Erstwhile orbiter MIR
Even now STILL
Filled and folded fare OMELET
French sponge cake GENOISE
Full-stake bet ALLIN
General associated with chicken TSO
Grasp mentally SEE
Hemingway nickname PAPA
High-pH chemical LYE
Intrinsically PERSE
It means ''in a way'' ISH
Clues Answers
It's a boy LAD
Japanese pizza topping EEL
Leftover ODD
Luxury hotel amenity SPA
Maine thing LOBSTER
Make good on ACHIEVE
Makes better HEALS
More than miffed IRATE
Novelist Kellerman FAYE
Ole Miss rival BAMA
Ominous comment UHOH
Optimal PEAK
PD rank SGT
Physical sparkle PEP
Pinocchio, at story's end REALBOY
Pokes at PRODS
Proof of innocence ALIBI
Purpose of a convoy ESCORT
Rather like ALA
Resource for many a collector EBAY
Ring shapes TORI
Side track SPUR
Slender wind OBOE
Specifics, informally DEETS
Spherical seed PEA
Staunch TRUEBLUE
Stay behind the leaders HANGBACK
They may push you to buy ADS
Throws on the floor RUGS
Tip for a calligrapher NIB
Took evasive action ZAGGED
Top of an org chart CEO
Towards the tail AFT
Wall installation PANE
Water beside Gibraltar STRAIT
What each of the four longest answers is a term for HAILSTONE
Woman's name on an historic B-29 ENOLA
Word associated with nouns PLACE
YMCA class ESL