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Clues Answers
''Rudolph . . .'' rhyme for ''history'' GLEE
''The greatest,'' per FIFA PELE
''The greatest,'' per himself ALI
Apt to flip MAD
Be a busy business HOP
Boss doing training and fighting FIRECHIEF
Branch manager's bosses CORPORATE
Capital on the world's most populous island JAKARTA
Circulation mainstay AORTA
Come loose RAVEL
Common celeb adoption STAGENAME
Contraction lacking three letters GDAY
Convention of dramatists TROPE
Darling IDOL
Difference between oo and OO CASE
Digs deeply LOVES
Econometric standard PERCAPITA
Exemplar of awesomeness, a century ago BEESKNEES
Fish catchers NETS
Get behind ENDORSE
Goes out for a while FAINTS
Have dreams ASPIRE
Herbivore of long ago DINO
Home of Dover AFB DEL
ID scanner's target IRIS
It helps a startup start up LOAN
It's a swell thing SURF
It's seen at the end of ''A Beautiful Mind'' MMI
Leaflike part SEPAL
Legal alternative, for short LTR
Many Greek-made planters OLIVEJARS
Molasses-based beverage RUM
Mom in the ''Thor'' franchise RENERUSSO
More vertical SHEERER
Most minimal of options AORB
Clues Answers
National Camping Mo JUN
Neutralize, with ''out'' ROOT
No longer in business SHUTTERED
No time at all MOMENTS
Not unwilling AMENABLE
Obviously elated AGLOW
Off the table EATEN
Peak where Moses saw the Promised Land NEBO
Pick out; add an ''s'' for a synonym ELECT
Pressure measure named for an Italian physicist TORR
Price __ CUT
Prime-time fare of old RADIODRAMA
Remark re roughness ITSNOTEASY
See from the outside PEERIN
Sign of condensation ETC
Slowdown en route TRAFFICJAM
Small pleasure boat RUNABOUT
Small remote FOB
Smiley twosome DOTS
Something pressed to suppress MUTEBUTTON
Subject to bumping, perhaps OVERBOOKED
Synth-pop band name that's German for ''power plant'' KRAFTWERK
Taking for granite STONY
Talking a lot, saying nothing GASSY
They're often seen on greens POLOS
Touristy spot between Italy and France MONTECARLO
UK's best-selling female album artist of the century ADELE
Umbrella handle, often CROOK
Way up a slope TBAR
Weighing with care ASSESSING
Wet bars, often SOAPS
What adorns many Indy cars STP
Word from the Italian for ''stalk'' TORSOS
Word seen with ''curd'' BEAN
__ dancing LINE