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Clues Answers
''Iliad'' divine messenger IRIS
45 Down rival ELLE
Adept ACE
All NFL uniforms, since 2012 NIKES
Apt PROPER
Apt to start SKITTISH
Bathe in light ENHALO
Canyon Vistas Ride transportation MULE
Coauthor of Bogart's Oscar role AGEE
Cocktails named for a mayor of Dijon KIRS
Cow SCARE
Cry before you spill TELLME
Deceived, as a Duck DEKED
Drilling expert, for short NCO
Ending like -aceous INE
Exemplar of kitschy art VELVETELVIS
Fairbanks, for Teddy Roosevelt VEEP
First female prof at the Sorbonne MMECURIE
Forte __ (strong-minded: Fr.) TETE
Frat letter PHI
Gripe KVETCH
Hangs (on) RELIES
Harry ally in ''Deathly Hallows'' ERNIE
Heart-shaped sewing machine parts CAMS
Iguana predator OCELOT
Important reign, perhaps ERA
Initial venture FORAY
Intimate quiz purveyor COSMO
Is found LIES
Letters on some ''Welcome to'' signs ELEV
Lingering trace ECHO
Livorno-to-Florence dir ENE
Lofty status EMINENCE
Lott successor as Senate majority leader DASCHLE
Lower yourself, in a way CURTSY
Maker of the first cell-phone color displays NEC
Clues Answers
Maker of the first curved-front fridge AMANA
Man-cave must-have TVSET
Metaphorical danger zone THINICE
Modern hospital staffer CONCIERGE
Morals-for-money FAUSTIAN
Much LOTS
Nonstandard SLANGY
One of its ''Welcome to'' signs is a giant gold pan NOME
One of the top four automakers, circa 1907 REO
Part of many valentines LACE
Pessimistic DARK
Pizazz DASH
Plain MANIFEST
Plastic cap CREDITLIMIT
Possible punch accompaniment TAKETHAT
Premiums RATES
Produce bin CRISPER
Rationed METED
Repentance RUE
Rung STEP
Scathing ACID
Sci-fi device SHRINKRAY
Shelters HAVENS
Show renewed energy SURGE
Small-screen swan song of 2015 CSI
Sold for FETCHED
Symbol of spring NEST
Targets of some fundraising campaigns ALUMNI
Title first used for shoguns TYCOON
Two-time Explorers Club president PEARY
Wannabe ASPIRANT
What often tops jambalaya HOTSAUCE
What some looks cure SOREEYES
Winner of some Olympic competitions HOSTCITY
Word from the Italian for ''cherish'' CARESS
__-plié (ballet movement) DEMI