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Clues Answers
''Cake Boss'' competitor, often ICER
Bit of a zipper TOOTH
Bit of some comet tails ION
Blowout words ASIS
buckminsterfuller finisher ENE
Burgundian variety PINOT
Caregivers' charges FOSTERKIDS
Changes the subject, maybe EDITS
Chicago colossus once owned by the Kennedys MERCHANDISEMART
City Hall henchman HEELER
Crowning ATOP
Distressed ATEAT
Easygoing BREEZY
Ending for 23 Down LESS
European capital, 1949-1990 BONN
Far from easygoing IRONHANDED
Find impossible to take LOATHE
Fundamental principle BASE
Group in a TLC franchise AMISH
Hold true AVER
Is light OWES
Kris Jenner son-in-law ODOM
Last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty NERO
Legal retribution attempt CROSSCLAIM
Less than frank CAGY
Light music source NANO
Like hot outfits CHIC
Moderate in thought SANE
Nails or bags LANDS
Narrow INTOLERANT
Nation south of Martinique SAINTLUCIA
Near-Earth asteroid in the Amor group EROS
Needle work of a sort TATS
Not distracted ONTASK
Clues Answers
Obscurity MURK
One displaying some hardware MEDALIST
Opposite of ''vulgaris'' RARA
Pretenses AIRS
Quasimodo portrayer in 1923 CHANEY
Returns for not much work EASYMONEY
Rosencrantz or Guildenstern DANE
Second Oscar/Emmy/Tony/Grammy actress after Helen RITA
See 39 Across MAPS
Seem LOOKASIF
Seven-nation chain ANDES
Shark cousin MANTA
Sight ESPY
Smoothie King flavor ACAI
Snake __ EYES
Star starter MEGA
State while on a tear BEASTMODE
Stops slowly, with ''out'' PHASES
Subject of the bio ''Good Grief'' SCHULZ
Target of many a daily paper PORCH
Tech higher-up CIO
Three-sided weapon EPEE
Tourist magnet near the Pantheon TREVI
Traveler's breaking point STOPALONGTHEWAY
Twist, essentially RIND
Was a valedictorian, e.g SPOKE
Was slammed CAMEUNDERATTACK
Wasn't out of it HADACHANCE
What a hollowed-out tree might be HIVE
What Walt Disney World has over 27,000 of ACRES
Whence the Wizard of Oz ''lifted'' his balloon OMAHA
Where Hamilton premiered? NEVIS
With 11 Across, aids in identifying mutants GENE
Word from the Latin for ''crush'' PESTLE