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Clues Answers
''Easy'' phrase ender ASPIE
''Middlemarch'' author ELIOT
''Variety'' guffaw LAFF
Accept as true BUY
Auction advisory ASIS
Blessed FORTUNATE
Boot camp figure SARGE
Bowl over AWE
Breach GAP
Buckle, as a board WARP
Certain Chippendale collectible ANTIQUEENDTABLE
City near Scottsdale MESA
Clothing GARB
Court entry PLEA
Covert summons PSSST
Cozy retreat DEN
Critic's count STARS
Cub Scouts setups TENTS
Danish alternative SWEETROLL
Days of old YORE
Dean's list no GPA
Designer's bottle SCENT
Dutch island ARUBA
Easily taught APT
Extra privileges PERKS
Exude, as charm OOZE
Force open JIMMY
Frat letter ETA
Gist POINT
Go cross-country, in a way SKI
HMO personnel LPNS
Inordinately TOO
Just painted WET
Large sharks MAKOS
Leave-taking word ADIEU
Let off steam VENT
Loft lessee, maybe ARTIST
Make known AIR
Most shivery QUAKIEST
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Neck annoyance KINK
Not far at all WALKINGDISTANCE
Orange coats RINDS
Part of some twill suits GABARDINEJACKET
Partly open AJAR
Playfully INFUN
Pork purchase LOIN
Power-plant measure MEGAWATT
Prefix for date or room ANTE
Put back into service REUSE
Rabbit follower of fiction ALICE
Range of understanding KEN
Ratchet (up) RAMP
Remove, as a brooch UNPIN
Response to ''Good job!'' ITRY
Rush order of a sort STAT
Shirt spoiler STAIN
Shirt spoiler RIP
Sideslips SKIDS
Sleep study acronym REM
Spa wear ROBE
State of matter GAS
Sub __ (secretly) ROSA
Surmise INFER
Swelter FRY
Teased JAPED
Tokyo shopping center GINZA
Traffic symbol ARROW
Trait determinant GENE
Tribulations ILLS
Turn aside abruptly SWERVE
Two-legged plant, perhaps SPY
Type of shirt KNIT
Unexpected delight TREAT
Use one's scope AIM
Was awful at the Improv STUNK
Web access co ISP
Word on boarding passes SEAT
__ before (no later than) ONOR