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#1 on the Mohs scale TALC
''Baseball Tonight'' channel ESPN
''Dies __'' (Latin hymn) IRAE
''Duck Soup'' surname MARX
''Excuses for Dummies'', e.g.? PRETEXTBOOK
''It's true!'' NOLIE
''Lassie'' character GRAMPS
''Mayor'' author EDKOCH
''Mighty __ a Rose'' LAK
''No Exit'' playwright SARTRE
''Spider-Man'' star MAGUIRE
''__ compare thee . . .'' SHALLI
''__ Solemnis'' (Beethoven work) MISSA
''__ Tu'' (1974 tune) ERES
'50s opera star CALLAS
Actress Hannah et al. DARYLS
Actress Ward SELA
Advance stealthily TIPTOE
Animation collectible CEL
Architectural add-on ELL
ATM request PIN
Back talk SASS
Basketball shots LAYUPS
Bishop's appearance? PRELATEARRIVAL
Blake of ''Gunsmoke'' AMANDA
Breathing sound RALE
Bygone flightless bird MOA
Cad ROUE
California fossil site LABREA
Capital of Eritrea ASMARA
Capitol Hill figure POL
Carol start OCOME
Chair repairer CANER
Chip's cartoon chum DALE
Chitchat PALAVER
Choice assignment PLUM
Come down LAND
Cone-shaped utensil FUNNEL
Corporate bigwig EXEC
Cowboys' ties BOLOS
Creator of Jo and Meg LOUISA
Deep contrition REMORSE
Distinctly imprinted ETCHED
Divine revelation ORACLE
Elevations: abbr. HTS
Excellent forecaster? MASTEROFPRESCIENCE
Falco of ''The Sopranos'' EDIE
Flight or floor follower PLAN
For fun ONALARK
Forerunner of Windows MSDOS
Former Mideast initials UAR
French physicist AMPERE
Game cube DIE
Garden tools RAKES
Guantanamo locale CUBA
Haberdashery item TIE
Have-not NEEDER
High-five, essentially SLAP
Highest-order angel SERAPH
Highly pleased with PROUDOF
Immediate successor HEIR
In the thick of AMID
Insignificant MERE
Iraqi city BASRA
Irritate RUFFLE
It means ''soil'' AGRO
John Wayne film of '62 HATARI
Judge Judy impersonator? LEGALPRETENDER
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Keyboard instruments ORGANS
Like the Vikings NORSE
Line on a weather map ISOBAR
Literary monogram RLS
Loos and Louise ANITAS
Madrid museum PRADO
Major cold spells ICEAGES
Mexican food TAMALE
Most merciless CRUELEST
Most serious, as a felony CLASSA
Moving vehicle VAN
Nebraska native OTOE
Needlecase ETUI
Neighbor of Belg. and Ger. LUX
Not in-house OUTSIDE
November honorees VETS
Of an armbone ULNAR
Oklahoma city TULSA
One atop a golf scoreboard LEADER
Onetime autocrats TSARS
Overly talkative GASSY
Part of some tennis scores LOVE
Party accessory COASTER
Performance by 121 Across ARIA
Play an intro? PREFACETHEMUSIC
Poetic preposition ERE
Pop choices COLAS
Popular pets, for short LABS
Positive aspects PLUSES
Prefix with system ECO
Prohibitionist DRY
Pryer's need LEVER
Put some bags in a can? PRESERVETEA
Puts on STAGES
Q-U connectors RST
Rarely encountered SCARCE
Region of Greece ATTICA
Repeats ITERATES
Request for calm COOLIT
Ripening agents AGERS
Santa-suit color RED
Seniors' org. AARP
Slovenly UNTIDY
Small and feisty BANTAM
Something stored KEEPER
Something to crack NUTSHELL
Sort of peninsula CAPE
Spacewalks, for short EVAS
Square-dance movement DOSIDO
State execs. GOVS
Suffix for Capri OTE
Supreme Court member SCALIA
Swamp wear HIPBOOTS
Tantalize TEASE
Those escaping ELUDERS
Tribal magician SHAMAN
Trucker, at times CBER
Trying new pasta sauce? HAVINGANOTHERPREGO
U. of Md. is in it ACC
USN bigshot RADM
Veteran sailors SALTS
Well ventilated AIRY
Went over, at the Olympics CLEARED
Western pact NATO
Word form for ''culture'' ETHNO
Writer Earl __ Biggers DERR
XM Radio alternative SIRIUS
__ Moines, IA DES