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Clues Answers
''Bald'' birds EAGLES
''Not guilty,'' for one PLEA
Adolescent TEEN
Audio system STEREO
Become frosty ICEUP
Believer in many gods PAGAN
Bird's home NEST
Bit of DNA GENE
Border EDGE
Boy Scout group TROOP
Boyfriend BEAU
Bread with a pocket PITA
Bring an end to STOP
Brownish gray TAUPE
Chew like a rodent GNAW
Churn up ROIL
Clear a windshield, perhaps DEFOG
Criticize severely JUMPALLOVER
Daddy PAPA
Doctors' grp. AMA
Doing nothing IDLE
Eastern Europeans SLAVS
Egg-shaped OVAL
Falling-out RIFT
Fan club's focus IDOL
Feeling of dread ANGST
Fender flaw DENT
Fire starter SPARK
First-aid course: Abbr. CPR
Fits to __ (is just right) ATEE
Flash of light GLEAM
Formerly ONCE
Go inside ENTER
Goes out with SEES
James __ (fifth U.S. president) MONROE
Japanese dog AKITA
Like some collisions HEADON
Makes an attempt TRIES
Moral code ETHIC
Clues Answers
Naval Academy graduate ENSIGN
Norway's capital OSLO
Not fooled by ONTO
Ornamental tree POPLAR
People in a couple TWO
Phrase of denial NOTI
Pigsties PENS
Pilot light FLAME
Poetic daybreak MORN
Point of view ANGLE
Prepare flour SIFT
Raring to go EAGER
Reddish hair dye HENNA
Remove the wrinkles from IRON
Resulted in LEDTO
Scoundrels CADS
See 24 Across BOO
See to a necktie KNOT
Seize an opportunity LEAPATTHECHANCE
Sharp as a tack KEEN
Signs of things to come OMENS
Squelched SATON
Stare open-mouthed GAPE
Start dripping, as a water pipe SPRINGALEAK
Suspect's story ALIBI
Swiss mountains ALPS
The ''T'' in TV TELE
Tidy NEAT
Tip of an airplane NOSE
Topic: Abbr. SUBJ
Tropical fruit MANGO
Twangy-voiced NASAL
Ultimatum ending ELSE
US alliance NATO
West Coast sch. UCLA
Wicked EVIL
With 65 Down, game played with tots PEEKA
__ game (pitcher's dream) NOHIT
__-do-well NEER