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Clues Answers
''Be happy to!'' SURE
''Beware the __ of March'' IDES
''Porgy and __'' BESS
1002, in old Rome MII
37 Down teacher GURU
Alexander __ Bell GRAHAM
Aussie greeting GDAY
Avoiding STEERINGCLEAROF
Bad-luck animal, supposedly BLACKCAT
Beer steins MUGS
Behaved ACTED
Belly muscles ABS
British noble EARL
Business-envelope abbr. ATTN
Business-school subj. ECON
Checker color RED
Chilean mountains ANDES
Cincinnati's state OHIO
Color variation SHADE
Compass pt. ESE
Country in the Himalayas NEPAL
Deer in a Disney film BAMBI
Degrade ABASE
Distracting TURNINGONESHEAD
Dobbs of CNN LOU
Dresses of India SARIS
Egg on INCITE
Election Day mo. NOV
Elephant tooth TUSK
Ensnare TRAP
Explosion sound BANG
Football officials REFS
Get __ a good thing INON
Go-getter's motivation DRIVINGAMBITION
Good for farming ARABLE
Happiness GLEE
Heavy hammer SLEDGE
Imitate APE
In the midst of AMONG
Clues Answers
Italian wine region ASTI
Lloyd Webber musical EVITA
Location PLACE
Lumber-mill delivery LOGS
Make a mess of BUNGLE
Mediterranean and Caribbean SEAS
More competent ABLER
Office conferences MEETINGS
Otherwise ELSE
Pesky ANNOYING
Phonograph records: Abbr. LPS
Pioneer's path TRAIL
Pliers or wrench TOOL
Pottery fragment SHARD
Prefix meaning ''opposed to'' ANTI
Prince Charles' sister ANNE
Rat relatives MICE
Restaurant activity EATING
Rip TEAR
Run off for love ELOPE
Sharpen HONE
Short-term government security TBILL
Soda containers CANS
Solemn vow OATH
Sprinted RAN
Squeezing snakes BOAS
Star of Bethlehem followers MAGI
Stinging insects BEES
Suit to __ ATEE
Synagogue scroll TORAH
Thickly packed DENSE
Under the weather ILL
Vicinity AREA
Vincent van __ GOGH
Waiter's handout MENU
Where Norfolk is VIRGINIA
Yoga practitioner HINDU
Zhivago's love LARA
__ and desist CEASE