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Clues Answers
''Humboldt's Gift'' author* SAULBELLOW
''I think,'' to texters IMO
''Muppet Show'' host KERMIT
''My Way'' singer SINATRA
''Six-pack'' muscles ABS
''The First Lady of Song''* ELLAFITZGERALD
''Toy Story'' boy ANDY
90-degree shapes ELLS
A question of procedure HOW
Abrade CHAFE
Act of binding LIGATURE
Actor Rob LOWE
Actress Celeste HOLM
Aide: Abbr ASST
Alice's cat DINAH
AMA members DRS
Andorra neighbor SPAIN
Art in a park STATUE
Betting figures ODDS
Big rigs SEMIS
Billiards bounces CAROMS
Bishop of Rome POPE
Bit of wordplay PUN
Buddy FELLA
Builds up AMASSES
Caballero's title SENOR
Cape Cod town TRURO
Capri or Wight ISLE
Carmine and crimson REDS
CBS franchise CSI
Celebratory nights EVES
Cheer for a diva BRAVA
City near Tahoe RENO
Civil War soldier REB
Cleveland's lake ERIE
Cobbler's inventory SOLES
Coup d'__ ETAT
Crack pilots ACES
Dan Quayle successor* ALGORE
Designer Perry ELLIS
Director Brooks MEL
Don't toss RETAIN
Drains of energy SAPS
Drill sergeant's order FALLIN
Early afternoon TWO
Either Apple cofounder STEVE
Experiment TEST
Fashion initials DKNY
First-aid device SPLINT
Five-star reviews RAVES
Frighten (off) SCARE
Frightens off DETERS
Gave testimony SWORE
H.G. Wells, re ''atomic bomb'' COINER
Havana coin PESO
Have __ (be connected) ANIN
Heckle RAZZ
Holds, as a 117 Across SEATS
Hoo-ha TODO
Hurled weapon SPEAR
Hybrid feline LIGER
In the direction of TOWARD
In the vicinity of CLOSETO
Informed about INON
Inventor Sikorsky IGOR
iPod models NANOS
Job detail, briefly SPEC
Ladder rung STEP
Lasso feature SLIPKNOT
Legendary Venetian voyager POLO
Lends a hand to AIDS
Like some chocolate SWISS
Longfellow subject REVERE
Clues Answers
Looked frightened PALED
MacArthur nickname DOUG
Made firewood SAWED
Making all stops LOCAL
Mark the hour, maybe TOLL
Maximal height PEAK
Messing of ''Will & Grace'' DEBRA
Mixed martial artist Rousey RONDA
More like mackerel SCALIER
Motionless INERT
Muscle that tightens TENSOR
Navigational shortcut CANAL
Ne'er-do-well LOSER
New Deal agcy WPA
New Haven collegian YALIE
No longer the rage PASSE
Nonstandard negative AINT
Norfolk sch ODU
One on foot, in signs PED
Onetime Joint Chiefs chairman* COLINPOWELL
Online music source ITUNES
Ostrich cousin EMU
Person with the most Oscars* WALTDISNEY
Photos, informally PICS
Photos, informally SNAPS
Place for change PURSE
Poet Sandburg* CARL
Poker card TREY
Prefix like equi- ISO
Prohibition supporters DRYS
Real-estate measure AREA
Rio beach IPANEMA
Rock concert venue ARENA
Rock singer Warren ZEVON
Secret suffix IVE
Sharp rebuke SLAP
Showers RAINS
Sitar master* RAVISHANKAR
Sits alongside ABUTS
Small salamander NEWT
Smirnoff rival STOLI
Snug retreat NEST
Solemn ''Yes'' IDO
South Pacific islander TONGAN
Sprite in ''The Tempest'' ARIEL
Starring role LEAD
State since 1864 NEVADA
Subtle glow AURA
Syria neighbor LEBANON
Take down a peg DEMEAN
Take down a peg ABASE
Talk too much YAP
Televised plugs ADS
Title bestowed on Gielgud SIR
Took from the top REDID
Top-ranking CLASSA
Transport SHIP
Traveler's stop INN
Twisty shapes ESSES
Uncool one NERD
Units of purity KARATS
Untrustworthy one LIAR
Violinist who helped save Carnegie Hall* ISAACSTERN
Vote seeker, for short POL
Wandered about ROVED
Well-put APT
Western elevations MESAS
What the answers to the starred clues all received from Harvard HONORARYDEGREE
Wild West group POSSE
Yonder object THAT
Yosemite photographer* ANSELADAMS
Zodiac beast ARIES
__ contendere NOLO