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Clues Answers
''Inherit the Wind'' inspiration SCOPES
''Patriot Games'' org CIA
6 Down pub regular CAPP
Academic domain EDU
Action film props UZIS
Annual Santa tracker NORAD
Are upcoming AWAIT
Army spin-off of '47 USAF
Austrian's ''Alas!'' ACH
Big ATM maker NCR
Breaks open, perhaps AXES
Broadway's first Evita PATTI
Cantina snack TAPA
Common software icon SAVE
Composure EQUANIMITY
Country in OPEC UAE
Cultural funding org NEA
DC ballplayer NAT
Email receiver INBOX
Evening event SOIREE
Formal refusal NOTI
Frat letters ZETAS
Hand (out) METE
High spirits EBULLIENCE
Home for wasps NEST
Initiate litigation SUE
It sounds just like you EWE
Kind of car COUPE
Large-scale sea breeze MONSOON
Laudatory versifier ODIST
Lay out SPEND
Lay up STORE
Lecture hall VIP PROF
Low-tech sect AMISH
Michener's ''Spanish Travels'' book IBERIA
Mideast carrier ELAL
Midwest grain storage ctr ENIDOK
Newspaper feature COMIC
Clues Answers
Not previously mentioned OTHER
Ogre at the office TYRANT
Operational, as a policy INFORCE
Outgoing vessel ARTERY
Outspoken OPEN
Papal letter ENCYCLICAL
Part of a pulley ROPE
Pastoral pun on 39 Across, perhaps UDDER
Persian poet OMAR
Places for speakers ROSTRA
Plan of action IDEA
Pop from a can SODA
Preserved, pre-CD ONTAPE
Profit potential UPSIDE
Proofreading mark ITAL
Rushmore nickname ABE
Sand dollar or starfish ECHINODERM
SAT developer ETS
Scrape (out) EKE
Search deeply DIG
Seriously stuck MIRED
Shower organizers, maybe AUNTS
Shy of dry DAMP
Significant period ERA
Sixth 007 novel DRNO
Smog component OZONE
Sponge opening PORE
Straightaway, for short PDQ
Taunt GETON
Third-billed voice in ''Shrek'' DIAZ
Use for a nap RESTON
Van Gogh venue ARLES
Web spot SITE
What ''Meow!'' might mean FEEDME
What some jacks have ONEEYE
When DST ends NOV
Wield a lever PRY
Working as desired EFFICACIOUS