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Clues Answers
''Bottled poetry'' valley NAPA
''Check this out!'' LOOK
''Clear!'' procedure, briefly* DEFIB
''Front-of-house'' staff WAITERS
''Jungle Book'' bear BALOO
''Lunch is ready!'' LETSEAT
Alaskan peninsula KENAI
Albertan NHLer OILER
Alias introducer AKA
Basis of Jurassic Park DNA
Be of __ (assist) USETO
Bearded antelope GNU
Behind, bill-wise OWING
Cameo shape OVAL
Center of the earth CORE
Cheese choice SWISS
Compute by hand, perhaps TOTALUP
Desert retreats OASES
Desktop viruses, e.g MALWARE
Drive off OUST
Epoch AGE
Epoch ERA
Eventually reached* ENDEDUPAT
Faithless person INFIDEL
False fronts POSES
Finish, with ''through'' GET
Former name of Mongolia's capital* ULANBATOR
Gloomy darkness* MURK
Granny NANA
Greece, to Greeks* ELLAS
Green-lighted OKD
Guatemalan gal pal AMIGA
Hand-made communication: Abbr ASL
Homer Simpson's dad ABE
Hoover, for one GMAN
Illuminated rings HALOS
In good order NEAT
Insurance ad spokesperson FLO
Irish forebear CELT
Clues Answers
Just hung out LAZED
Like couches on casters MOVABLE
Maintained AVERRED
Most of the earth OCEAN
Negative connective NOR
Novelist O'Brien EDNA
Old Testament prophet HOSEA
Outwitted HAD
Parting word BYE
Performed perfectly NAILED
Place to eat* CAFE
Poetic form ODE
Region of eastern France ALSACE
Run __ light ARED
Scoffed at GIBED
Sealy alternative SERTA
Set off APART
Singly EACH
Skiing/shooting Olympian* BIATHLETE
Sorority letter ETA
Spot for chilling FREEZER
Sprayed in self-defense MACED
Star of the first ''King Kong'' WRAY
Statuary, for instance ART
Summer-camp snack bar CANTEEN
Swamp plant REED
The blues MOPES
Throng HOST
Tots WEEONES
Tragic accusatory question ETTU
Turmoils UNRESTS
Twenty, in Trentino* VENTI
Vichyssoise veggie LEEK
What fills some wells INK
What you must do, to answer each pair of starred clues BREAKALEG
Word before hall or house TOWN
__ Butterworth's (Log Cabin rival) MRS
__ hit (double) TWOBASE
__-the-play contract RUNOF