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Clues Answers
''Checkmate'' IWIN
''Looking forward to our date!'' SEEYOUTONIGHT
''Pencils down!'' TIME
''Scarlet Letter'' protagonist HESTER
''Silas Marner'' author ELIOT
''SportsCenter'' broadcaster ESPN
''The Stranger'' author CAMUS
''The Thinker,'' for instance NUDE
''Today'' rival, briefly GMA
''Today'' weatherman ROKER
2014 Winter Olympics city SOCHI
About 11% NINTH
Add to the blend MIXIN
Advised of INON
Alias introducer AKA
Angry outburst RANT
Applies gently DABSON
Appreciate, as an investment GROWINVALUE
Apt rhyme for ''Eek!'' SHRIEK
Baby kangaroo JOEY
Bag-checking org TSA
Battle of Normandy city CAEN
Become desperate GRASPATSTRAWS
Begin to recover TURNTHECORNER
Believe an alibi, say BUYTHESTORY
Best-in-class AONE
Big bovines OXEN
Bring back on board REHIRE
Canyon's edge RIM
Caravan stop OASIS
Chief exec PREZ
Close who portrayed Cruella GLENN
Compass reading SSE
Consist of ARE
Country you're from HOMELAND
Criticize pettily FINDFAULTWITH
Curved entryways ARCHES
Defeats soundly ROUTS
Emerging adult TEEN
Equine gait TROT
Exited LEFT
Fax forerunner TELETYPE
Fedora feature BRIM
Fireplace framework GRATE
First sign ONSET
Formerly common way to phone COLLECTCALL
Freeloader MOOCH
Frequent website ending DOTNET
Garners GLEANS
Go up in smoke BURN
Good guy MENSCH
Grab suddenly SNATCH
GWB degree MBA
Herbal balm ALOE
HMO personnel RNS
Horror movie series addr ELMST
Hound's hand PAW
How most music was sold in the '90s ONCD
Ill-informed IGNORANT
Improve for publication EDIT
In the midst of AMONG
Insignificant MERE
Introduce arbitrarily INJECT
It may be read as a warning RIOTACT
Ivy, for instance VINE
Keep for later SAVE
Lackluster DRAB
Lavishes affection (on) DOTES
Lawnlike GRASSY
Leisurely pace LOPE
Limerick's locale EIRE
List of answers KEY
Little tricksters IMPS
Clues Answers
Location for relaxation SPA
Long swimmer EEL
Longing ITCH
Major 62 Down media partner NCAA
Minimal evidence SHRED
Miser's motivation GREED
MO city STL
Narrow bottle part NECK
Nary a soul NONE
Neurological junction SYNAPSE
Nifty KEEN
Nile queen, for short CLEO
No particular ANY
No sweetheart MEANIE
Notable period AGE
Over here, old-style HITHER
Paper dispenser NEWSRACK
PC ports USBS
Perceived, as a scent SMELLED
Pi, for one RATIO
Playfully shy COY
Popular slogan CATCHPHRASE
Port of Pennsylvania ERIE
Port on the Seine ROUEN
Pressing for URGING
Pulverize MASH
Quick look PEEK
Red Sea's Gulf of __ SUEZ
Rock singer Chrissie HYNDE
Rules, for short REGS
Russia news agency TASS
Seldom found RARE
Set of statutes CODE
Smoothie flavor ACAI
Software whiz HACKER
Something often served with soup SALTINE
Sort of sandal THONG
Sound of disdain SNORT
Sprightly PERT
Statehouse VIP LTGOV
Strains for baby food PUREES
Stretchy confection TAFFY
Suffix for switch EROO
Sums at risk BETS
Supervised RAN
Take charge LEAD
Tech support client USER
Tennis pro Roddick or Murray ANDY
Terse confirmation IAM
Thin coating FILM
Tic-tac-toe nonwinner OXO
Tightly curled, as a coif FRIZZY
Tons and tons SCADS
Took a hatchet to AXED
Trims (off) LOPS
Tulsan, for one OKIE
TV honors EMMYS
Two-Oscar Penn SEAN
UFO crew ETS
Ultimate degree NTH
Upper extremity ARM
Vacationer's rental CAR
Vase with a pedestal URN
Very long times EONS
Votes to accept ADOPTS
Walesa of Poland LECH
Whole bunch RAFT
With ulterior motives SLY
Without a pause ONEND
Wrongful acts SINS
Year-end season NOEL
Young activist Thunberg GRETA
__-K school PRE