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Clues Answers
''Black gold'' TEXASTEA
''Famous'' cookie man AMOS
''Flintstones'' pet DINO
''La Bohème'' character MIMI
''Me too'' ASAMI
''My mistake!'' OOPS
''Oliver Twist'' villain FAGIN
35th anniversary gift CORAL
Actor Rob or Chad LOWE
Actress Merrill DINA
Advanced degrees: Abbr. PHDS
Ancient Mideast civilization ELAM
Approximator's phrase ORSO
Arizona Indian HOPI
Arrive at GETTO
Author Fleming IAN
Baker who sings ANITA
Banquet hors d'oeuvres SWEDISHMEATBALLS
Beer variety LIGHT
Biological grouping SPECIES
Blazing AGLARE
Body builder HEMAN
Breakfast bread ENGLISHMUFFIN
Breakfast order CANADIANBACON
Brief missive NOTE
Bringing up the rear LAST
Brother of Prometheus ATLAS
Bygone bird DODO
Change for a five ONES
Charlton Heston role ELCID
Closet array ATTIRE
Cologne's river RHINE
Course hazard SANDTRAP
Crude group OPEC
Devour EATUP
Diary length, often YEAR
Digital forerunner ANALOG
Din from a crowd CLAMOR
Do a vet's job SPAY
Doc bloc AMA
Doo-wop group at Woodstock SHANANA
Drescher of ''The Nanny'' FRAN
Exist ARE
Expeditious RAPID
Fast-food order FRENCHFRIES
Female prophets SIBYLS
Fence made of stakes PALISADE
Floor noise CREAK
Frayed WORN
Gives a title to NAMES
GNP, e.g. STAT
Gold-medal skater Rodnina IRINA
Got to work BEGAN
Had aspirations HOPED
Hatcher or Polo TERI
Have the lead STAR
Helper: Abbr. ASST
High point ACME
Hire ENGAGE
Holiday event PARADE
Hot times on the Riviera ETES
India of R&B ARIE
Inedible orange OSAGE
Ineffectual one WIMP
Insult, informally DIS
Internet address URL
It may be bright IDEA
Jane Austen novel EMMA
Kimono closer SASH
Knock for a loop STUN
License plates TAGS
Clues Answers
Loathe HATE
Long-eared leapers HARES
Lynx or leopard CAT
Menu phrase ALA
Mideast dish PILAF
Mythical king MIDAS
Narc's org. DEA
NASA spacewalk EVA
NBC show since 1975 SNL
Nose-in-air type SNOB
One way to be paid INCASH
One's ''who's who'' ALIST
One-dimensional LINEAR
Opposite of paleo- NEO
Oxen link YOKE
Pacific island kingdom TONGA
Pantry feature SHELF
Pellet precipitation HAIL
Plain, in a way UNCOLORED
Porpoise SEAHOG
Prefix for legal PARA
Puts the collar on NABS
QB's mishaps INTS
Qum resident IRANI
Rank above Major: Abbr. LTCOL
Record holders SLEEVES
Remove, as rinds PARE
Rent-__ ACAR
Rescued damsel's cry MYHERO
Rich dessert GERMANCHOCOLATECAKE
Royal address SIRE
Sales rep. AGT
Saudi Arabia neighbor YEMEN
Ship of the desert CAMEL
Shore bird GULL
Sociologist Shere HITE
Solitary LONE
Some verse writers ODISTS
Sort of stock-market order STOPLOSS
Spicy side dish SPANISHRICE
Spicy stew HUNGARIANGOULASH
Spiny houseplant ALOE
Spread in a tub OLEO
Stair component TREAD
Starts asking questions FIRESAWAY
State of matter SOLID
Take steps ACT
Tango quorum TWO
These: Sp. ESTAS
Time period ERA
Tomato type ROMA
Traditional knowledge LORE
Transfixed RAPT
Transgressions SINS
Trebek on TV ALEX
Tributes HOMAGES
Trumpet call CLARION
TV equine MRED
Vegan staple TOFU
Video-game pioneer ATARI
Where K2 is ASIA
Withstand ENDURE
Words of wisdom ADAGES
Writer Rand AYN
You must remember this ALAMO
Zero NIL
__ Alto, CA PALO
__ annum PER
__ lazuli LAPIS
__ out a living EKE
__-cone SNO