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''Real'' thing ESTATE
''__ Variations'' (Beethoven piece) EROICA
10-time ''Muscle & Fitness'' cover subject FERRIGNO
4.184 gigajoules, vis-à-vis TNT ONETON
Age ERA
Avg. REG
Becomes careless NODS
Blame takers GOATS
Brit's gold coin SOV
Burning sensation IRE
Chafes RUBSRAW
Cheaters SPECS
Cherished DEAR
City on New Providence NASSAU
Color close to cream ECRU
Comparatively compact TERSER
Consist of ARE
County northeast of London ESSEX
Cuts short CROPS
Exceptional RARE
Fine drawer features TENONS
Flavors TASTES
Flop DUD
Fully INTOTO
Galleries TIERS
George I predecessor ANNE
Go before ANTECEDE
Hall of Famer ENSHRINEE
Hall of Famers GREATS
Havana? No STOGIE
Having bounced once ONAHOP
HHH successor as VP STA
Honker SNOOT
Ibsen character ASE
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Its shield has three silver lilies and a leopard ETON
Laugh, perhaps REACT
Like a lot, perhaps AUCTIONED
Main point THRUST
Marimba-mallet material RATTAN
Murphy, per O'Toole OPTIMIST
Name meaning ''late summer'' TERESA
Not as practical DREAMIER
Not for here TOGO
Odin's wife in 2011's ''Thor'' RENERUSSO
Of rest SABBATIC
Ottoman conquest of 1458 ATHENS
Plenty of nothing GOOSEEGGS
Proteus, e.g. SEAGOD
Realize NET
Salon offerings ARTSONGS
Second-string players? CHARACTERACTORS
Serving and protecting ONPATROL
Shakespearean title character CRESSIDA
Ship in a Longfellow poem HESPERUS
Sound effect REVERB
Spousal __ IRA
Stimulus CUE
Tchaikovsky's ''Souvenir de Florence,'' e.g. SEXTET
The least bit of concern HOOT
Took in ATE
Tot's coat attachment MITTEN
Tried HADAGO
US-stamp series subject of 1945-46 FDR
Video-store category ANIME
Waited SAT
War zones SECTORS
What botanists call ''Ambrosia'' RAGWEEDS
Works with a certain stick GLUESON