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Clues Answers
''Little'' '60s singer EVA
''Sunflowers'' setting ARLES
Advanced BETTERED
Attach, as a 20 Across PINON
Attempts to displace HORNSINON
Baby food PUREE
Bands together MERGES
Basket willow REDOSIER
Big Apple eatery ELAINES
Byte beginning TERA
Contractor's offering ESTIMATE
Cowardly Lion's acquisition MEDAL
Cut, as film EDIT
Declined SLID
Disney character DOC
Educ. auxiliary PTA
Ellipsoid OVAL
ER figures DRS
Facing TOWARD
Feared mosquito AEDES
First choice DRUTHERS
France's patron STDENIS
Frist predecessor LOTT
Greystoke's foster family APES
Hackneyed CORNY
Hardly bare ORNATE
Impudence BRASS
Judge missing since 1930 CRATER
King David's father JESSE
Like a cat on a hot tin roof JUMPY
Like a fireball ENERGETIC
Like George Clooney in ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' POMADED
Like some journalists EMBEDDED
Lofty quarters AERIE
Clues Answers
Longhorn TEXAN
Make fast LASH
Marquis name DESADE
Melvyn Douglas Oscar film HUD
Mendel's concern GENES
Moon of Uranus OBERON
Not as good EVILER
Number DEADENER
Ordering option ALACARTE
Party type SURPRISE
Patch COBBLE
Personal acceptance, slangily CRED
Pick up WIN
Place of contentment XANADU
Rice, for one DIPLOMAT
Score line OBOEPART
Show that introduced ''My Heart Belongs to Daddy'' LEAVEITTOME
Singers and dancers ARTISTES
Social sites of ancient Rome BATHS
Sports artist NEIMAN
Stanley Kowalski, e.g. LEADROLE
Stings CONGAMES
Stretch STINT
Students abroad ELEVES
Talk, talk, talk NATTER
Tarnish MAR
Tent item COT
They might be under vows EREMITES
They spoil DOTERS
Tree native to North Africa CEDAR
Understand GETSTRAIGHT
Write a score NOTATE
You and others SOLVERS
Zoological feet PEDES