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Clues Answers
''Absolutely!'' INDEED
''Get it?'' YOUSEE
''Les __'' (musical, familiarly) MIZ
''Private Practice'' network ABC
''The Bells'' poet POE
''Unto us __ is given'' ASON
Actor Rickman ALAN
Acute distress ANGUISH
Arctic ice FLOE
Arguments against CONS
Arid region of Israel NEGEVDESERT
Armory supply AMMO
Back muscle, for short LAT
Baking soda meas TSP
Barbecue application RUB
Bathtub part DRAIN
Beef cut LOIN
Bird feeder filler SEEDS
Bit of parsley SPRIG
Blessing BOON
Bring about CAUSE
Burned a bit SINGED
Calligrapher's buy INK
Cheese-topped snack PIZZASLICE
Choir contingent ALTOS
Circus stars TAMERS
Classify ASSORT
Cockpit announcement ETA
Color close to turquoise CYAN
Com preceder DOT
Comics cry YEOW
Commando weapon UZI
Conical abodes TEPEES
Corp. officers VPS
Denny's alternative IHOP
Depicted unfairly SKEWED
Dispensable candy PEZ
Domineering BOSSY
Drop back EBB
DVR button REC
Egyptian goddess ISIS
Eight-ball need BILLIARDSRACK
Elgin __ (British Museum display) MARBLES
Encls. to editors SASES
Endangered TV species SOAPS
Entice TEMPT
Eyebrow shape ARC
Faintest hint TRACE
Fallen orbiter MIR
Falstaffian OBESE
Far from eager LOATH
Fashion monogram YSL
First female Nobelist CURIE
Fodder holders SILOS
Fond of using paragraphs when a sentence will do WORDY
Frat letter RHO
Grazed, perhaps ATE
Guided trips TOURS
Gung-ho AVID
Health club class YOGA
Heredity molecule DNA
Hidden catch SNAG
Hiked, as a price UPPED
Honoree's spot DAIS
Ignited LIT
Image on water bottles RECYCLESYMBOL
Impart LEND
Insurance payment PREMIUM
Italy's shape BOOT
Itinerary ROUTE
Joins, as metal WELDS
Keep after HOUND
Kitchen pest ANT
Clues Answers
Land measure ACRE
Leak symptom DRIP
Least moist DRIEST
Leave, so to speak SPLIT
Let out of the sty UNPEN
Makes one UNITES
Map detail INSET
Medal-worthy VALIANT
Mixed up MUDDLED
More cagey SLIER
Most letters of the alphabet, in DC STS
Never-before-seen ALLNEW
Newspaper notices OBITS
Ocean feeder, often RIVERDELTA
Part of a nativity scene MANGER
Part of many rappers' names LIL
Part to play ROLE
Pay attention to NOTE
Peacekeeping grp NATO
Peeled off FLAKED
Pepsi alternative COKE
Permissible LICIT
Picture puzzle REBUS
Places to build on SITES
Playing hooky ABSENT
Prompt on stage CUE
Pseudonym ALIAS
Put a stop to BAN
Quarterback Manning ELI
Religious group SECT
Religious groups CULTS
Reply to ''That so?'' ITIS
Response to a slight SLAP
Roughs up MAULS
Run smoothly PURR
Safe place VAULT
Sales pitches SPIELS
Salsa partner NACHOCHIP
San __ Obispo, CA LUIS
School in Troy, NY RPI
Seasonal temp SANTA
Set upright RAISE
Shelley selection ODE
Short putt TAPIN
Simple song DITTY
Ski area rental AFRAMEHOUSE
Some cyber-reading EZINE
Sound of contempt SNORT
Spanish king REY
Sphinx, in part LION
Statue part BASE
Stir up AROUSE
Stock deals TRADES
Street performers MIMES
Stretchable ELASTIC
Strummer's need GUITARPICK
Super, slangily UBER
Teachers' org NEA
Top-of-the-line BEST
Traffic-merge posting YIELDSIGN
Tupperware sound BURP
Unclear, as vision BLEARY
Up for grabs, politically INPLAY
Van Gogh hangout ARLES
Venerable computer language COBOL
Walked nervously PACED
Walker who wrote ''The Color Purple'' ALICE
Wall St. debut IPO
What the long answers all are, more or less TRIANGULAR
Wields a spatula FLIPS
Wispy clouds CIRRI
Witches' concoctions BREWS
Word sung on 1/1 AULD