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Clues Answers
''American Buffalo'' playwright DAVIDMAMET
''Fresh Air'' airer NPR
''Gorillas in the Mist'' author DIANFOSSEY
''Hairspray'' girl TRACY
''Leave that to me'' IMONIT
''Life of Pi'' director ANGLEE
''Monkey Business'' star GROUCHOMARX
''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life'' director TERRYJONES
''Star Trek'' officer UHURA
''Swan Lake'' composer TCHAIKOVSKY
''The Bad News Bears'' star TATUMONEAL
''The Lion in Winter'' star PETEROTOOLE
''The Pelican Brief'' author JOHNGRISHAM
2006 Court appointee ALITO
59 Across schedule SAILINGS
Accountant's expertise TAXRATES
Actress Watts NAOMI
Adidas alternative AVIA
Airport shuttle operator AVIS
Alias introducer AKA
Art school class: Abbr ANAT
Balloon flaws PINHOLES
Certain line's offering CRUISE
Clubhouse amenity SAUNA
Comics canine ODIE
Creative technique ART
Cretan money EURO
Cuban money PESOS
Dairy product designation GRADEA
Datum FACT
Deprecate BELITTLE
Detective's detections CLUES
Didn't leave STAYED
Diner seating BOOTH
Ecstatic review RAVE
Editor's mark CARET
Either end of ''chaotic'' HARDC
Elegance of action GRACE
Exhibited awe OOHED
Fast-food packet, perhaps MAYO
Feline CATTY
Feline remarks MEOWS
Flourishes BLOSSOMS
French director Louis MALLE
Future MBA's exam GMAT
Generic pooch FIDO
Gentle touch CARESS
Give/take transaction SWAP
Go-for-broke wager ALLIN
Goof ERR
GPS offering RTE
Grendel's mother in the ''Beowulf'' film JOLIE
Groups of stadium seats ROWS
Hamlet lament ALAS
Handle clumsily PAWAT
Has a capacity for HOLDS
He directed Tom in ''Sully'' CLINT
Henry the Eighth's sixth PARR
High-fashion CHIC
Hint of light GLEAM
Historical interval ERA
Hoodlum GOON
If absolutely necessary INAPINCH
Impressive setups ARRAYS
In a foul mood CROSS
Instrumental exercise SCALE
Interrupted CUTINTO
Is unsatisfactory WONTDO
It's just over a foot ANKLE
It's Nero's fault CULPA
Jargon CANT
Clues Answers
Jargon SLANG
Keeps cool, perhaps ICES
Kimono closers OBIS
Knight's ride STEED
Lack of fairness BIAS
Large tub VAT
Law office aides PARAS
Left humbled AWED
Looked over EYED
Magazine article PIECE
Merest bit SHRED
Merest bits IOTAS
Mgr.'s helper ASST
Midday breaks SIESTAS
More than dislike ABHOR
Move like a water moccasin CREEP
Neighbor of Niger MALI
Nonsubscriber online restrictions PAYWALLS
Nothing special SOSO
Old school cheer GOTEAMGO
Omelet ingredient ONION
Ostrich cousin EMU
Painter Kahlo FRIDA
Part of modern-day Turkey IONIA
Pasture plaints MOOS
Penitent SORRY
Pinnacles ACMES
Pop singer Bareilles SARA
Precisely punctually ONTHEDOT
Primary points GISTS
Rather similar AKIN
Refuse to, quaintly SHANT
Research facility: Abbr INST
Ruckus STIR
Ruin, as a surprise SPOIL
Salad veggie CRESS
Salad veggie RADISH
Sanctuaries LAIRS
Scarlett's third RHETT
See 96 Down GALE
Shannon's county CLARE
Shout of approval YEAH
Show runner EMCEE
Smooths, as shirts IRONS
Southern pie ingredient PEACH
Southern pie ingredient PECAN
Sovereign's self-reference ROYALWE
Speck on a globe ISLE
Speechless ATALOSS
Start a triathlon SWIM
Steak cut LOIN
Sure thing SAFEBET
Surveillance device CAM
Sydney salutation GDAY
Tent entrances FLAPS
This: Sp ESTO
Toppers HATS
Tough nut to crack POSER
Traditional early riser ROOSTER
Trojan War saga ILIAD
Truth twister LIAR
Vito Corleone, by birth SICILIAN
Voiced ORAL
Web-footed mammal OTTER
What Sophocles spoke GREEK
Wheelless vehicle SLED
Wilson of the Beach Boys BRIAN
With 97 Down, Beaufort scale category NEAR
Word before race or right HUMAN
Word on the Canadian province list SCOTIA
Yakked it up JAWED