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Clues Answers
''A __ formality!'' MERE
''Beg pardon . . .'' AHEM
''Gladiator'' star CROWE
''When pigs fly!'' NEVER
After-school meeting org PTA
All eyes and ears ALERT
Ante- relative PRE
Baloney peddler LIAR
Barbershop call NEXT
Burning up ONFIRE
Capital of Bangladesh DHAKA
Cause of quaking FEAR
Compare LIKEN
Cyber-mag EZINE
Danish flavor PRUNE
Decorative water pitcher EWER
Dentist's request OPEN
Distort SKEW
Drum kit part SNARE
Dukes it out, in practice SPARS
Far from cramped ROOMY
Food Network hosts CHEFS
Give the thumbs down to NIX
Good with tools, say HANDY
Government honcho CZAR
Greek drink OUZO
Gumbo veggie OKRA
Hit the hammock REST
Huge expanse SEA
Impostors SHAMS
In need of a rubdown SORE
In position SET
Meadow mother EWE
Mine find ORE
Mosque book KORAN
Moves furtively SKULKS
Nada ZERO
Name of 23 popes JOHN
Nervous giggle TEHEE
Clues Answers
Nonpayer's risk, for short REPO
Not often FROMTIMETOTIME
Not often ONRAREOCCASION
Not often EVERYNOWANDTHEN
One of the Brontë sisters ANNE
Overly thin BONY
Parties with poi LUAUS
Perform perfectly NAIL
Pungent bulb ONION
Puppy pickup spot NAPE
Rationed, with ''out'' DOLED
Saver of the day HERO
Secured, as a victory ICED
Seer's reading PALM
Show off one's muscles FLEX
Sign of bad radio reception STATIC
Somewhat, in music POCO
Spain's longest river EBRO
Spiral shape HELIX
Sporting blade EPEE
State categorically AVOW
Street eatery CAFE
Striped equine ZEBRA
Stubble remover RAZOR
Sty cry OINK
Tandem bike's capacity TWO
Tell's missile ARROW
The lowdown INFO
Third-party account ESCROW
Time of anticipation EVE
Tom of Twain novels SAWYER
Towel material TERRY
Triangular sail JIB
Uncle Sam's land, humorously USOFA
Was in first place LED
Wiped clean ERASED
Yalies ELIS
[Not my mistake] SIC
__ room (place to play) REC