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A long while ago ONCE
A noticeable improvement MORELIKEIT
A short while from now SOON
Apollo 11 landed in one MARE
Badger BAIT
Basic cable channel BRAVO
Clever move GAMBIT
Commissions SELECTS
Continuously ATALLTIMES
Daniel Radcliffe role in 2015's ''Victor Frankenstein'' IGOR
Dated, for short OBS
Descriptor defined by the National Institutes of Health OBESE
Escapist vehicle? RAFT
Expresses discontent, in a way STOMPS
Extremely SOSO
Frat initiation, e.g RITE
Gillette introduction of 1979 ERASERMATE
Great-aunt who takes in David Copperfield BETSEY
Has no use for ABHORS
House __ CAT
Hubby in ''Funny Girl'' OMARSHARIF
Ice Breakers alternative CERTS
Ideally TOAT
It's often seen between here and there NOR
Less-than-elegant exit BUMSRUSH
Mag with a Street Chic Daily web page ELLE
Martha Stewart makes them with basil leaves and homemade mayo BLTS
Mineral mined in the Mojave BORAX
Name that ''Sounds like a fish!'' in a 1982 movie GARP
Overused eBay adjective RARE
Palm product HULASKIRT
Person needing sets COMPLETIST
Place for a chin on a violin REST
Place to buy bowls and beds PETSHOP
Plans for the future IRAS
Projects needing sets FILMS
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Public persona FACE
Regrettably ALAS
Reminder starter NOTETOSELF
Remove for checking, perhaps DOFF
Respected elders GURUS
Reuben Award comic of 2004 ROSEISROSE
Ring, essentially HOOP
Role-playing game costume ROBE
Scene of the crime in ''A Few Good Men'' GITMO
Sculpture at St. Peter's PIETA
Shipwreck divers' mecca ERIE
Source of an ale's fruity flavor ESTER
Sources of some scratches HENS
Stretches, for example LIMOS
Strikingly different UNORTHODOX
Surname of three siblings who each wrote an 1847 novel BRONTE
Taxing STRENUOUS
The Romans' name for Turkey ASIA
The six single title characters of a TV Land series EXES
The UAW was founded within it CIO
They're formed for flattery ODES
They're outstanding in their fields MVPS
Tibetan for ''superior one'' LAMA
Valuables in certain Manila envelopes PESOS
Verbal nod ISEE
Voter in the news, 9/18/2014 SCOT
Was on AIRED
What a toolbox may hold TRAY
What the Lexington Minuteman statue holds RIFLE
Window-shade part ROLLER
Woodstock '99 poster designer PETERMAX
Word in the etymology of ''admiral'' EMIR
World's most popular transportation company OTIS
Wrongdoing EVIL
Yucca cousin AGAVE
__ gear RIOT