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Clues Answers
''. . . __ iron bars a cage'' NOR
''Air'' starter ATMO
''Bali __'' HAI
''Brokeback Mountain'' character ENNIS
''Dig in, everyone!'' LETSEAT
''Easy Rider'' star DENNISHOPPER
''Garfield'' waitress IRMA
''Gilmore Girls'' character RORY
''Kojak'' star TELLYSAVALAS
''Star Trek'' star WILLIAMSHATNER
''Tender Mercies'' Oscar winner ROBERTDUVALL
''The Dirty Dozen'' star CHARLESBRONSON
''The Fugitive'' pursuer GERARD
''Toreador Song'' composer BIZET
Abba of Israel EBAN
Actress Lena OLIN
Alphabetic trio RST
Ancient bondsmen SERFS
Ancient Mexican OLMEC
Auto-trim material CHROME
Barkeep's supply OLIVES
Baylor University city WACO
Be over with END
Big loss, so to speak BATH
Biting works SATIRES
Boston Marathon time APRIL
Bugs Bunny pursuer FUDD
Center of power SEAT
Checkroom items COATS
Chinese money YUAN
Chronic complainers NAGS
Cultural doings ARTS
Deg. awarders UNIVS
Demagnetize ERASE
Descendant SCION
Diamond weights CARATS
Dispensed candy PEZ
Dover dish SOLE
E-mails, maybe SENDS
Eager, so to speak PSYCHED
Eagle org. BSA
Eject forcibly SPEW
Election Day victors INS
Exchange verbal jabs SPAR
Fall copiously CASCADE
Far from windy TERSE
Fictional heart seeker TINMAN
Fill-ins SUBS
First celebrity on ''Sesame Street'' CAROLBURNETT
Floor it SPEED
Flying ''A'' alternative ESSO
Former bloc letters SSR
Genesis son SETH
Get the point SEE
Gourmet condiment SEASALT
Half-__ (coffee order) CAF
Hard to grasp EELY
Hardwood tree ASH
Having a light touch GENTLE
Horse-hoof sound CLOP
If all goes right ATBEST
In great supply RIFE
Indian director Mira NAIR
Iowa city AMES
Jazz great Hampton LIONEL
Kickers' targets? SHINS
Legendary bird ROC
Like some checking NOFEE
Like some inspections ONSITE
Loathsome VILE
Long reptiles CROCS
Lugosi of horror films BELA
Mad Hatter's service TEASET
Clues Answers
Margins of safety LEEWAYS
Mattel rival HASBRO
Mojave flora CACTI
Narrow way LANE
National League East team METS
Nobelist Wiesel ELIE
Novelist Waugh ALEC
Numerical suffix TEEN
Occult gathering SEANCE
Off-road rides, for short ATVS
Okay to do LICIT
Opposite of ''fer'' AGIN
Orbital high point APOGEE
Pac-10 powerhouse UCLA
Part of NATO ATL
Parthenon supporter PILLAR
Pay no heed to IGNORE
Pay-stub inits. FICA
Persian poet OMAR
Photo-__ (media events) OPS
Photocopier part SORTER
Poem part STROPHE
Portal GATE
Praline nut PECAN
Pre-euro money FRANC
Presidential monogram RMN
Primes the pot ANTES
Pristine plot EDEN
Pro __ (proportionally) RATA
Proof of age, perhaps IDCARD
Puts on the brakes HALTS
Quaker pronoun THEE
Rapper __ Kim LIL
Rose-garden pest APHID
Script unit SCENE
Send out SHIP
Show in the résumé of all seven stars THETWILIGHTZONE
Show unsteadiness WOBBLE
Shrinking Asian sea ARAL
Siouan speaker OTOE
Sky blue: Fr. AZUR
Slangy sound of a punch KAPOW
Some nest eggs IRAS
Some toothpastes GELS
Sore spot ACHE
Sound of thunder PEAL
Spiky-haired doll TROLL
Stallone's manager in ''Rocky'' BURGESSMEREDITH
Stanley Cup hoister NHLER
Star in Cygnus DENEB
Startled cries OHS
Stylists' solutions RINSES
Suffix for legal ESE
T-shirt sz. LGE
Tall guy's nickname, maybe SHORTY
Tanning-lotion letters SPF
Tickles pink AMUSES
Tomato variety ROMA
Top pilot ACE
Tossed-salad ingredient RADISH
Toy at the beach KITE
Transistor ancestor TRIODE
Urban woe SMOG
Veer suddenly ZAG
Very costly, as victories PYRRHIC
Very long time AGES
Visibility obstacle HAZE
Way in ACCESS
Well-behaved one ANGEL
Winglike ALAR
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__'Pea (''Popeye'' tot) SWEE
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