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Clues Answers
''Beats me!'' IDUNNO
''Ciao!'' TATA
''Common sense __'' ISNT
''Star Wars'' princess LEIA
''What a pity'' ALAS
''__ Misérables'' LES
Advil alternative ALEVE
Air of mystery AURA
Alphabetic trio STU
Ankle-length dress MAXI
Arizona Native American HOPI
Ashley Judd's sister WYNONNA
Aurora's Greek counterpart EOS
Austen novel EMMA
Bank take-back, for short REPO
Be EXIST
Be equal (to) AMOUNT
Become cohesive GEL
Brings to bear USES
Bump into MEET
Car with a four-ring logo AUDI
Categorize SORT
Center of activity LOCUS
Circus performer ACROBAT
Classic castaway CRUSOE
Classroom accessory ERASER
Coffee tidbit BEAN
Cotton bundle BALE
Cynical response IBET
Doubt-ridden INSECURE
Drive-__ window THRU
Dutch river AMSTEL
Engage HIRE
Envelope abbr ATTN
Fall back RECEDE
Fiber source BRAN
Fir tree BALSAM
Flash-drive plug-in place PORT
Fledgling NESTER
Formal orders DECREES
Friend in the 'hood HOMIE
Frigidaire alternative AMANA
Fritter away WASTE
From here __ (henceforth) ONIN
Gave up a seat STOOD
Genesis peak ARARAT
Golf standards PARS
Got smart, with ''up'' WISED
Grazing ground LEA
Greatly ALOT
Group of Girl Scouts TROOP
Hardships WOES
Highest sudoku digit NINE
Hold in check REIN
Holiday lead-ins EVES
In better order TIDIER
In two APART
In-basket sheet MEMO
Ink mishap BLOT
Innkeeper HOST
Iowa State's city AMES
iPhone add-ins APPS
Kanye West's music RAP
Keg contents BEER
Key with four sharps: Abbr EMAJ
Knocks on the noggin BOPS
Lasagna features LAYERS
Lavish parties FETES
Lease signer RENTER
Literary celebrity LION
Lofty dignity MAJESTY
Long-legged shorebird AVOCET
Lost beasts of rhyme SHEEP
Clues Answers
Lowest sudoku digits ONES
Lures successfully ENSNARES
Maritime predator ORCA
Money-back offer REBATE
Monocle glass LENS
Most populous NATO member USA
Move suddenly DART
Multitude LEGION
Mystery novelist Buchanan EDNA
National hero of 39 Down ELCID
Neighbor of Francia ESPANA
Night school subj ESL
Noah Webster went there YALE
Old enough to vote OFAGE
Operatic solo ARIA
Optical device LASER
Overload preventer FUSE
Overly TOO
Painter Wyeth ANDREW
Part of ''GWTW'' GONE
Part of a simplicity simile ABC
Part of ICBM INTER
Party giveaways SWAG
Paycheck deduction fig FICA
Percolate OOZE
Places to build on SITES
Poke fun at KID
Pork cut LOIN
Practically undetectable BARELYTHERE
Predatory bird SHRIKE
Pretended to be APED
Prickly flora CACTI
Professorial employment feature TENURETRACK
Prove suitable for BEFIT
Quite similar AKIN
Real estate abbr RMS
Register total COST
Rooster's walk STRUT
Rug rat TOT
Salsa ingredient ONION
Save for later STORE
Scholar's award GRANT
Selected OPTEDFOR
Set straight ORIENT
Shell game SCAM
Shifter's choice GEAR
Sleepwear part PAJAMABOTTOMS
Smeltery supplies ORES
Soldier's battle dress COMBATFATIGUES
Some commercial ferries HYDROFOILS
Some Halloween décor WEBS
Stallion or stag MALE
Steam engine inventor WATT
Subordinate: Abbr ASST
Successor of the mark EURO
Suffix for slogan EER
Suffix like -let ETTE
Surnames hidden backwards in the six other long answers PRESIDENTS
Takes down a peg ABASES
Tear down RAZE
Three-hulled boat TRIMARAN
Tie at anchor MOOR
Title given to Hitchcock SIR
Toledo's water ERIE
Tot's plea CANI
United Kingdom citizen, formerly BRITISHSUBJECT
Vegas entertainment REVUE
Verdi opera AIDA
Was successful DIDIT
Wide-ranging BROAD
Worker protection agcy OSHA
Yearn (for) ACHE
__ Scott decision DRED