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Clues Answers
''Beat it!'' SCRAM
''Finally, the weekend!'' TGIF
''Half'' prefix for sphere HEMI
''Help __ the way!'' ISON
''I __ the opinion that . . .'' AMOF
''__ know you?'' (''Have we met before?'') DONTI
Adore LOVE
Albacore and yellowfin TUNAS
Allow LET
Amiable NICE
Any two-legged creature BIPED
Ark builder NOAH
Awake into the wee hours UPLATE
Baby's after-meal sound BURP
Be sorry about REGRET
Brown ice cream flavor: Abbr CHOC
Business attire SUIT
Capital of Bolivia LAPAZ
Castle on a chessboard ROOK
Centers for mail: Abbr POS
Christmas song CAROL
Clay pigeon sport SKEET
Dirt in a flowerpot SOIL
Donut's center HOLE
Dunks chips into salsa DIPS
Far from enjoyable NOFUN
Flaws FAULTS
Fractions of a pound OUNCES
Frankenstein's assistant IGOR
Freight train rider HOBO
Geeky person NERD
Gets the point of SEES
Ginger ale or cola SODA
Gravity-powered snow vehicle SLED
Great enthusiasm ZEST
Gunk GOOP
Hindu teachers GURUS
Hotel's swimming spot POOL
Jeweler's weight measure CARAT
Clues Answers
Jobs cast for a film ACTINGROLES
Just slightly ABIT
Lab rat's pathfinding challenge MAZE
Male pal in Paris AMI
Most immense LARGEST
Occupies the throne REIGNS
Painter or sculptor ARTIST
Place to apply gloss LIP
Plants with fronds FERNS
Police car's wail SIREN
Primary parking area MAINLOT
Protective atmospheric layer OZONE
Quaint collectibles CURIOS
Radiate, as light EMIT
River near the Sphinx NILE
Run-down neighborhood SLUM
Rustic hotel INN
Scarlett of ''Gone With the Wind'' OHARA
Scottish girl LASSIE
Sealed up, as a carton TAPED
Shade trees ELMS
Shirts and blouses TOPS
Shooting star METEOR
Signal from a night-table clock ALARM
Skilled speechmaker ORATOR
Software buyer USER
Stand that holds a portrait EASEL
Throat-clearing sound AHEM
Thundery weather STORM
Vampire novelist Rice ANNE
What a witch casts for a hex MAGICSPELL
What an angler casts into the water FISHINGLINE
Wicked EVIL
Without an escort ALONE
Words cast to criticize someone ASPERSIONS
__ and rave (throw a tantrum) RANT
__ Baba (Arabian Nights hero) ALI
__ bar (mixes drinks) TENDS
__ for (chooses) OPTS