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Clues Answers
''All kidding __ . . .'' ASIDE
''Little __ Fauntleroy'' LORD
After-dinner candies MINTS
An hour after noon ONE
Any carbonated soft drink SODA
Asparagus piece SPEAR
Berets and bonnets HATS
Book's backbone SPINE
Capital of Arkansas LITTLEROCK
Casual conversation SMALLTALK
Cole __ (side dish) SLAW
Comfy shoe insert HEELPAD
Common practice USAGE
Coupe or sedan CAR
Deceptive plan RUSE
Edible ice-cream holder CONE
Evaluated RATED
Fictional Van Winkle RIP
Fishing-rod attachments REELS
Flat-topped hills BUTTES
Fringe benefit PERK
From that time SINCE
Gemstone weight CARAT
German auto AUDI
Grad ALUM
Hair ringlet CURL
Half a quart PINT
Hold the deed to POSSESS
Impolite RUDE
In any way ATALL
Jogged RAN
Kindhearted HUMANE
Letter before tee ESS
Loan officer, for example BANKER
Major tourist draw MECCA
Make revisions to EDIT
Mascara mishaps SMEARS
Military no-show, for short AWOL
Misstep MINORERROR
Clues Answers
Office fund for odds and ends PETTYCASH
Passed, as legislation ENACTED
Placed in the mailbox SENT
Portion of butter PAT
Prepare, as potatoes MASH
Pulls apart, as paper TEARS
Quick swims DIPS
Quite a few MANY
Rabbit relatives HARES
Racetrack shapes OVALS
Robins and wrens BIRDS
Santa's helpers ELVES
Scissors sound SNIP
Scratches up MARS
Self-esteem EGO
Sharpshooter's magnifier SCOPE
Sheet of glass PANE
Skin-cream ingredient ALOE
Small sofa SETTEE
Snake SERPENT
Snapshots, for short PICS
Spill the beans BLAB
Sports shoe attachment CLEAT
Start a poker pot ANTE
Steam bath SAUNA
Suffix for luncheon ETTE
Table-tennis implement PADDLE
Toward sunrise EAST
Twilled suit material SERGE
Undecorated BARE
Underground coal source MINE
United Nations goal PEACE
Untidiness MESS
Unwanted garden plant WEED
Verse writers POETS
Viewpoint ANGLE
Where Des Moines is IOWA
__ fish sandwich TUNA
__ Star State (Texas) LONE