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Clues Answers
''Big Brother'' host CHEN
''Facto'' forerunner IPSO
''Pencils down!'' TIME
''Princess Bride'' pirate portrayer ELWES
''Repeat that slower, please'' IMLOST
'80s Philippine leader AQUINO
850+-episode NBC series SNL
Alternative puzzle title GOINGTOEXTREMES
Assessment measurement METRIC
Avid for INTO
Banjo kin UKE
Barely achieves EKESOUT
Barrel of laughs RIOT
Billboard's ''Queen of Adult Contemporary'' DION
Christmas tree ornaments ICICLES
City that sounds spooky ERIE
Clear, as cash NET
Coloring used in chemistry LITMUS
Composer Stravinsky IGOR
Cottage cheese morsel CURD
Dashed away BOLTED
Edges for jumpers HEMS
Emperor/lyrist NERO
Emphatic rebuttal IDOSO
End of range SUBLIME
Fee for flats RENT
Feudal superior LORD
Furthermore ALSO
Germ-free STERILE
German-born Literature Nobelist HESSE
Get moving ROLL
Gulf War missile SCUD
Gym tallies REPS
Held up ROBBED
High school math class PRECALC
High-jumping birds EMUS
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High-ranking job for a CPA CFO
Hilfiger competitor IZOD
Hold back STEM
Hotel room freebie SHAMPOO
India's Capital Territory DELHI
Keats' ''friend to man'' URN
Less expected ODDER
Like some contracts ORAL
Make esteemed ENDEAR
Measures of work ERGS
Middle of range RIDICULOUSTOTHE
Model train component COALCAR
Most snug COZIEST
Muse of comedy THALIA
No nickname for Twist OLLIE
One __ (unlikely odds) INTEN
Pack in new sacks REBAG
Paradisaical place EDEN
Picnic fare BURGERS
Put away dishes ATE
Rather late lunch hr TWOPM
Repeats precisely QUOTES
Revered figure ICON
Seat, so to speak USH
Senator at 30 BIDEN
Son of Jacob ASHER
Spirit made from Swedish wheat ABSOLUT
Start of a range FROMTHE
These: Sp ESTOS
Turntable meas RPM
Typical taxis SEDANS
Unimportant information MINUTIA
Unmasks EXPOSES
What Wharton is part of PENN
Whom Rick toasts in Morocco ILSA
__ Desert (Tucson's locale) SONORAN