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Clues Answers
''Tall'' story TALE
''__ to worry'' NOT
Acquire GET
All-important KEY
Annoyingly slow POKY
Astronaut's insignia NASA
Author Harriet Beecher __ STOWE
Blowtorch wielder WELDER
Broad street AVENUE
Burn slightly CHAR
Central New York lake ONEIDA
Command to Fido SIT
Coral island ATOLL
Earl of tea GREY
Early afternoon TWO
Early afternoon ONE
Elevator pioneer OTIS
Estrange ALIENATE
Exist ARE
Fencing weapon EPEE
Group offered at auction LOT
Hand over formally CEDE
Homer's Trojan War epic ILIAD
Hunter's weapon SHOTGUN
Immense HUGE
Indulges HUMORS
Infant's ailment COLIC
Infomercials, e.g ADS
JFK successor LBJ
Kennel club classification BREED
Leather variety SUEDE
Long-running NBC weekend show SNL
Lowly chess pieces PAWNS
Mai __ cocktail TAI
Mother Teresa, for one NUN
Oceanic movement TIDE
On the road AWAY
One's good name, for short REP
Ordering for dinner HAVING
Clues Answers
Paradises EDENS
Placates APPEASES
Place for protons ATOM
Plays a part ACTS
Positive response YES
Propelled with oars ROWED
Pub beverages ALES
Puppy sounds YELPS
Regarding ASTO
Reverend Jackson JESSE
Salon application DYE
Scold, with ''out'' CHEW
Scribble (down) JOT
Seeks permission ASKS
Socially smooth SUAVE
Some baseball pitches CURVES
Sore spot ACHE
Spaghetti or ziti PASTA
Speaks frankly TALKSTURKEY
Speaks frankly TELLSITLIKEITIS
Speaks frankly LAYSITONTHELINE
Spiral shape CURL
Spur, with ''on'' URGE
Squirrel's hangout TREE
Straightens (up) TIDIES
Sums to TOTALS
Take exception to RESENT
Topped, as an ''i'' DOTTED
Trite saying CLICHE
Under the weather ILL
Unlit DARK
Very pale ASHY
Website connection LINK
When summer starts JUNE
Wholesale quantities CASES
Wild equine ASS
Window coverings DRAPES
__ Jones Industrial Average DOW
__ Piper of Hamelin PIED