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Clues Answers
''Curiouser and curiouser!'' speaker ALICE
''It's my turn'' IMUP
''My Name Is __'' (Jason Lee sitcom) EARL
''Return of the Jedi'' sage YODA
''Rio __'' (John Wayne film) LOBO
''SportsCenter'' airer ESPN
2009 Peace Nobelist OBAMA
Actor Milo OSHEA
Aired TELECAST
Allen-wrench shape ELL
Are: Sp ESTA
Arranges in piles STACKS
Asterisk's key EIGHT
Big wheel NABOB
Bin contents TRASH
Bizet genre OPERA
Boors YAHOOS
Brunch time, perhaps TENAM
Cap'n's subordinate BOSN
Cavort ROMP
CD problems on a coast-to-coast trip? CROSSCOUNTRYSKIPS
Ceremonial act RITE
City areas, informally URBS
Consist of ARE
Conundrum ENIGMA
Cost of leaving BUSFARE
Cote cries BAABAA
Cry of derision HOOT
Cyberjunk SPAM
Dazzling success ECLAT
Disentangle UNSNARL
Do away with ABOLISH
Dog-eared WORN
Drains of energy SAPS
Duration SPAN
Economist Smith ADAM
Educ. auxiliary PTA
Encouraging start ATTA
Ending for billion AIRE
Enjoys a buffet EATS
Eyeball rudely OGLE
F equivalent ESHARP
Fashionable CHIC
Female turkeys HENS
Fiction alternative FACT
Firecracker feature FUSE
Former freeway exits near the Gateway Arch? STLOUISRAMPS
Fuel-mining site COALPIT
Future flowers, perhaps SEEDS
Gallery exhibit of defective lumber? THEARTOFWARPS
Garlicky sauce AIOLI
Golf-ball holders TEES
Greek consonants THETAS
Grimm goon OGRE
Guatemala gala FIESTA
Has an afternoon snack, in Britain TAKESTEA
Have a hunch FEEL
HBO alternative SHO
Hearth residue ASH
Host ARMY
Hushed ''Hey!'' PSST
Idyllic meadows LEAS
Ill will ENMITY
Introductions PROEMS
Iran, formerly PERSIA
Job for a sleuth CASE
L.A. Dodgers' league NATL
Land in the ocean ISLE
Largest city on the Illinois PEORIA
Leisure-suited ''Simpsons'' character DISCOSTU
Lennon's lady ONO
Life story, briefly BIO
Light-bulb circler MOTH
Clues Answers
List of notables WHOSWHO
Long-billed wader IBIS
Long-running CBS franchise CSI
Look at casually BROWSE
Lord's holding FIEF
Losing one's ability to be shocked? RUNNINGOUTOFGASPS
Map explanation LEGEND
Matched, as a bet SAW
Measure of purity KARAT
Mediator's skill TACT
Mega-celebrity IDOL
Mine, in Marseille AMOI
Moderate pace TROT
Modern artist Johns JASPER
Mohawk Valley city UTICA
More-or-less figs ESTS
Name for an unknown DOE
Newly invented words COINAGES
O'Hare arrival JET
On __ (without a contract) SPEC
One of Donald's nephews HUEY
One of the ladies SHE
One, for openers UNI
Papa's mama NANA
Peer's title BARON
Pithy complaints? COMPACTCARPS
Plug away TOIL
Possess OWN
Pride member LIONESS
Put on an act FAKED
Q-U connection RST
Recite SAY
Regular writing PROSE
Room at the top ATTIC
Rotisserie rod SPIT
Satellite circuit ORBIT
Scholarly paper TREATISE
Sci-fi vehicle POD
Seaside sand dunes? BEACHBUMPS
Second to none BEST
Set of parts KIT
Short skirts MINIS
Shot in the dark STAB
Sign of rank STRIPE
Signal giver CUER
Sit-up muscles ABS
Smartphone ancestors: Abbr PDAS
Smear DAUB
Snifter parts STEMS
Soccer great Mia HAMM
Speeder stoppers COPS
Spigoted vessel URN
Spread apart SPLAY
Squabble SPAT
Stately shader ELM
Steers clear of SHUNS
Swing Era ensembles BIGBANDS
Teensy bit SKOSH
Terre __, IN HAUTE
Toni Morrison novel SULA
Totalities WHOLES
Trench-making tool SPADE
Twosome DUO
Ultimatum ender ELSE
Unruly bunch MOB
Very short putt TAPIN
Vintage soda pop NEHI
Where shades can be found? ONTHELAMPS
Wind-quartet member OBOE
Word contest signals? SPELLINGBEEPS
World Cup team USA
__-Aid KOOL
__-day (common vitamin dose) ONEA