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Clues Answers
''A Christmas Carol'' clerk BOBCRATCHIT
''Coming __ going out?'' INOR
''I approve!'' GOOD
''Julius Caesar'' conspirator CASCA
''Jurassic World'' menaces DINOS
''Knight of the road'' HOBO
''Sunset Boulevard'' star SWANSON
''The Very Hungry Caterpillar'' author CARLE
A bit SOME
Act of twisting TORSION
Aleppo's land SYRIA
As compared to THAN
At leisure IDLE
Attendees GOERS
Bakers' implements PEELS
Barbecue spot PIT
Bass-baritone Simon ESTES
Become less intense MODERATE
Believe in TRUST
Bird on the back of a buck EAGLE
Bit of hearsay RUMOR
Brainchild IDEA
Burrito alternative TAMALE
Can't do without NEED
Cantina order TACO
Carole who cowrote ''Nobody Does It Better'' BAYERSAGER
Chalet spot ALP
Chin adornment GOATEE
Christmas VIP SANTA
Classic Christmas gifts for kids SLEDS
Command to a canine SICEM
Concerning INRE
Conforms (with) JIBES
Cozy retreat INN
Cozy retreats DENS
Cultivating tool HOE
Debussy piece LAMER
Desert plant ALOE
Didn't mind donating SPARED
Direction opposite ''norte'' SUR
Distinctive period ERA
Dress carefully PREEN
Educator Montessori MARIA
Ethereal instruments HARPS
Evade SIDESTEP
Ex-president who swore in Hoover TAFT
False show PRETENSE
Fast punch JAB
Felipe VI, to his subjects ELREY
Finger pointers NAMERS
Flute, for instance WOODWIND
Gave seconds to REFED
Golf course teachers PROS
Greek column type IONIC
Greenhouse pest APHID
Half of a Lewis Carroll twosome TWEEDLEDEE
Have good intentions MEANWELL
Historical French region GASCONY
Hoodlum GOON
In the course of AMID
In unison ASONE
Is downcast MOPES
Ishmael's captain AHAB
Job bonuses PERKS
Karol Wojtyla's better-known name JOHNPAULII
Keel over SWOON
Keg contents BEER
Kilo- times 1,000 MEGA
Lasso loop NOOSE
Lasting mark SCAR
Mideast airline ELAL
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Minor falling-out SPAT
Move higher RAISE
Mrs. Smith's rival SARALEE
No longer happening OVER
No longer squeaking OILED
Not as fresh STALER
Not as prevalent RARER
Old-school cheer RAH
One of a carol's 11 PIPER
One of Canada's First Nations CREE
One-spot ACE
Ones in a hurry RACERS
Pal of Frodo SAM
Performs hip-hop RAPS
Pompeo of ''Grey's Anatomy'' ELLEN
Procrastinate STALL
Purchase authorization ORDER
Raise the price of, at auction BIDUP
Range of Russia URALS
Religious doctrine TENET
Rich soil LOAM
Robin Hood beverage ALE
Roddenberry, re ''Star Trek'' CREATOR
SeaWorld orca SHAMU
Second attempts REDOS
Second word of ''Gone With the Wind'' OHARA
Senior member DOYEN
Seven-Emmy actor ASNER
Shape of a rainbow ARC
Shed tears WEEP
Sigma follower TAU
Signal via beeper PAGE
Singer of Carole King's ''You've Got a Friend'' JAMESTAYLOR
Sitcom where Carroll O'Connor was Helen Hunt's dad MADABOUTYOU
Slices of a century DECADES
Social outing DATE
Some balloon animals POODLES
Something in the way OBSTACLE
Speak unclearly SLUR
Spellbinding speaker ORATOR
Spiral-horned antelope ELAND
St. since 1863 WVA
Statistical collection DATA
Steps off PACES
Stoops suddenly DUCKS
Tampa Bay baseballers RAYS
Tilted LEANT
Tom Hanks, in ''Sully'' PILOT
Transitional period PHASE
Twerp DWEEB
Two-time honor for Joyce Carol Oates OHENRYAWARD
UK defence arm RAF
Up to now ASYET
Use scissors SHEAR
User-friendly feature AMENITY
Uses scissors SNIPS
Uttered ORAL
Very cold GELID
Vessel to sail on or drink from SCHOONER
Weaver in rattan CANER
Web page ID URL
What the Carolina Hurricanes won in 2006 STANLEYCUP
Where Biden was senator DELAWARE
Where Caroll Spinney has been a Bird and a Grouch SESAMESTREET
Where the Caroline Islands are NORTHPACIFIC
World Cup cheer OLE
Wrongdoer SINNER
Yale student ELI
__ ''en scène'' (stage setting) MISE
__ citato (footnote phrase) OPERE
__ the aisle (theater ticket request) TWOON