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Clues Answers
''Make getting together effortless'' site EVITE
''Mother of the Blues'' who sang with Satchmo MARAINEY
''Unfading'' flower eaten by Aztecs AMARANTH
Anteater cousin ARMADILLO
Antonym of ''apathetic'' AVID
Apply incautiously SLAPON
Apt name for a pet Mexican lizard IGGY
Bilingual mashup SPANGLISH
Canoe-building tool ADZE
Capital near Lake Titicaca LAPAZ
Charged or invested ENTRUSTED
Cognac companion AMI
Dark part of a sunspot UMBRA
Discomfited episodes ANGSTS
Distresses AILS
Drift away NOD
Duck, say REACT
Embroidering expert LIAR
Find rain in Iran, e.g ANAGRAM
Finn, memorably RAFTER
Four-lettuce entrée COBBSALAD
German Dada artist GROSZ
Giant of French Renaissance literature RABELAIS
Go easy AMBLE
Gradual, in product names SLO
Guy discomfited by progressive attitudes BROFLAKE
Historic event FIRST
Inventory, for short GDS
Keep away BAN
Kitchen sink attachment SPRAYER
Latter-day case breaker DNA
Lenten art project DYEDEGG
Like many movie speakeasies RAIDED
Made aware of a hack, maybe CCED
Made shorter or leaner PARED
Make an important delivery ORATE
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Makes chaotic DISARRAYS
Malia __ Obama ANN
Medal rec'd by Earhart and Lindbergh DFC
Metaphor for management REINS
Milanese patron of da Vinci SFORZA
Modernized, maybe UPGRADED
Mosquito look-alike MIDGE
Mysterious to most ARCANE
Nautically agile YARE
One on the winner's side, supposedly LADYLUCK
Oral ''OMG'' EEK
Ostentatious, in Oxford DASHY
Play Asimov called ''immortal for that one word'' RUR
Pollen pouch SAC
Popular Super Bowl party centerpiece HERO
Pseudo-surfers HODADS
Rather small swimmer AMOEBA
Recently reconstituted protest org SDS
Rhythm readout EKG
Sack with malice RAVAGE
Science of versification PROSODY
Setting for many mass movements MINORKEY
Signs not to sing RESTS
Slot-machine bonus FREESPIN
Something you want to turn over ENGINE
Stairlike SCALAR
Swashbuckling sound CLANK
Tahini-based confection HALVA
Ten-time Pro Bowl quarterback ('50s and '60s) UNITAS
Those spurning their outfits DESERTERS
Tips off ALERTS
Traditional Buckeyes rival ILLINI
What's under your hat PATE
Whom Gershwin dedicated his ''I Got Rhythm'' Variations to IRA
Whom Philbin calls ''Pippa'' RIPA
Word from the Hindi for ''viceroy'' NABOB