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Clues Answers
''Power pellet'' for 28 Down ENERGIZER
''You're my only hope'' speaker in a '77 film LEIA
17 Across alternative TATA
As a consolation ATLEAST
Ascribe to PINON
Be obstructive to STYMIE
Beach eater GULL
Beer mugs, e.g STONEWARE
Big name in Haitian rap WYCLEF
Calms, as a crisis DEFUSES
Carriage designed to be noticed STRUT
Composed SERENE
Conical firewood shape TEPEE
Conversation ender LATER
Conversation starter PSST
Crack ACE
Diamond former PRESSURE
Dig too deeply PRY
Don't recognize DENY
Don't turn in STAYUP
Edible part of anything MEAT
Explosive sound POW
Faith's opposite, per Kierkegaard SIN
Furnish ENTITLE
Get something through your head SOAKITIN
Got into hot water BATHED
Had unwanted flexibility SAGGED
Hard to handle, in a way GREASED
Henceforth's opposite YET
High-pitched protest PEEP
Immerses thoroughly STEEPS
It might go with a miniskirt MODESTY
Laurel Weaver, in ''Men in Black'' AGENTL
Name from Ancient Greek for ''desire'' EROS
Offer to help ASKME
Clues Answers
Out too late PASTCURFEW
Overcome BEATEN
Overshoot, say ERR
Pay off REDEEM
Philosophical palindrome TENET
Picture posted on many a pole LOSTDOG
Place for a pit stop LAV
Plan A's antithesis LASTRESORT
Proceed deviously WORM
Regular slipper KLUTZ
Reina Tudor MARIA
Rescuers in whodunits ANTIDOTES
Road __ TEST
Rummy offerings BABAS
Salt and oxygen, to chemists SOLUTES
Screen icon since the '80s PACMAN
Shake FAZE
Shields from capture, perhaps ABETS
Six-legged bug TSETSE
Some Jamaican jams SKA
Spender of £17 million for a rowing lake ETON
Stabilizes EVENS
Start to go LETIT
Suppress, with ''down'' SLAP
Touchy subject HOTPOTATO
Touchy subject? TACT
Treat shaped like toes BEARCLAW
Triplets, quatrains, etc STANZAS
Two-legged bug DEVOTEE
Two-Oscar actor who wrote ''My Russia'' USTINOV
Urgent petition ENTREATY
What a goose egg can indicate NORUNS
When many stand alone AGEONE
You might have a ball with it TEA
__ shot TEE