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''Real'' thing ESTATE
''__ Variations'' (Beethoven piece) EROICA
10-time '''Muscle & Fitness'' cover subject FERRIGNO
4.184 gigajoules, vis-à-vis TNT ONETON
Age ERA
Becomes careless NODS
Blame takers GOATS
Brit's gold coin SOV
Burning sensation IRE
Chafes RUBSRAW
Cheaters SPECS
Cherished DEAR
City on New Providence NASSAU
Color close to cream ECRU
Consist of ARE
County northeast of London ESSEX
Cuts short CROPS
Exceptional RARE
Fine drawer features TENONS
Flavors TASTES
Flop DUD
Fully INTOTO
Galleries TIERS
George I predecessor ANNE
Go before ANTECEDE
Hall of Famer, by definition ENSHRINEE
Hall of Famers, by definition GREATS
Havana? No STOGIE
Having bounced once ONAHOP
HHH successor as VP STA
Honker SNOOT
Ibsen character ASE
Laugh, perhaps REACT
Less windy TERSER
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Like a lot, perhaps AUCTIONED
Main point THRUST
Marimba mallet material RATTAN
Murphy, per O'Toole's Corollary OPTIMIST
Not as practical DREAMIER
Not for here TOGO
Odin's wife in 2011's ''Thor'' RENERUSSO
Of rest SABBATIC
Ottoman conquest of 1458 ATHENS
Peace Nobelist after Anwar and Menachem TERESA
Plenty of nothing GOOSEEGGS
Proteus, e.g SEAGOD
Realize NET
Salon offerings ARTSONGS
Second-string players? CHARACTERACTORS
Serving and protecting ONPATROL
Shakespearean title character CRESSIDA
Ship in a Longfellow poem HESPERUS
Sound effect REVERB
Spousal __ IRA
Stimulus CUE
Suit tag letters REG
Tchaikovsky's ''Souvenir de Florence,'' e.g SEXTET
The least bit of concern HOOT
Took in ATE
Tot's coat attachment MITTEN
Tried HADAGO
US stamp series subject of 1945-46 FDR
Venerable boarding school ETON
Video category ANIME
Waited SAT
War zones SECTORS
What botanists call ''Ambrosia'' RAGWEEDS
Works with a certain stick GLUESON