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''Beats me!'' DUNNO
''Casablanca'' piano player SAM
''Ditto!'' METOO
''Egg'' prefix OVO
''Get lost!'' SHOO
''I Love Lucy'' actress VIVIANVANCE
''Mixed'' side dish VEGGIES
''Now __ heard everything!'' IVE
''Sesame Street'' character ERNIE
''Simpsons'' kid BART
''The Cherry Orchard'' playwright ANTONPAVLOVICHCHEKHOV
''Wheel of Fortune'' buy ANI
'60s illumination fad LAVALAMP
11 Wall St. addressee NYSE
14 Down attraction TOWER
16th-century pope PIUSV
2021 Summer Olympics site TOKYO
3101, long ago MMMCI
37 Across order ALDENTE
5th-century invader HUN
Actress Mendes EVA
Actress Ullmann LIV
Adam or Eve, e.g EVICTEE
Alchemist's element EARTH
All tied up EVEN
Alphabetic trio LMN
Alternative to buttons VELCRO
Ancient South Americans INCAS
Appointment ignorer NOSHOW
Apt rhyme for ''more'' ENCORE
At any time EVER
Author Fleming IAN
Auto parts PCVVALVES
Basis for a Puccini opera LATOSCA
Be sleepy DROWSE
Blaster's buy NITRO
Blaster's buy TNT
Bloodhound's track SCENT
Brainstorm IDEA
CBS franchise CSI
Changes slowly EVOLVES
Chiang Kai-__ SHEK
Chinese frypan WOK
Chooses, with ''for'' OPTS
CIO partner AFL
Cool dessert SUNDAE
Dam-building agcy TVA
Daredevil action film of '77 VIVAKNIEVEL
December birthstones ZIRCONS
Doughboys' conflict: Abbr WWI
Ebbed WANED
Electric-bill letters KWH
Electronic instrument, for short SYNTH
Estimate GUESSAT
Extensive WIDE
Female lobster HEN
Fiction writer NOVELIST
Fictional whaler AHAB
Followed a zigzag course WEAVED
Frat letter RHO
French article UNE
Full ENTIRE
Get away ESCAPE
Good breeding SAVOIRVIVRE
Gown renter SENIOR
Green sci ECOL
Gumshoe TEC
Half of hex- TRI
Has influence over ACTSUPON
Haughty one SNOB
Hebrew alphabet starter ALEPH
Helper AIDE
Hereditary INNATE
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Hertz rival AVIS
Hugo hero VALJEAN
In excellent condition LIKENEW
In the midst of AMONG
Just released NEW
Kids' game TAG
Kindly SWEET
Lagoon enclosers ATOLLS
Language suffix ESE
Largest US union NEA
Like some furniture polishes LEMONY
Lofty verse ODE
Long-time Chicago columnist ROYKO
Make amends ATONE
Manufacturing center PLANT
Marker IOU
Meet with SEE
Move obliquely SIDLE
Mystical glow AURA
NASDAQ news IPO
Norwegian physical feature FJORD
Obsessed by INTO
Olden days YORE
One more time AGAIN
One of four singing brothers EDAMES
One's wheels CAR
Orchestral group REEDS
Paid-for magazine p ADVT
Palme __ (Cannes prize) DOR
Path for the risk-averse CONSERVATIVEINVESTING
Payment from an S&L INT
Peaceful protest LIEIN
Pig-poke connector INA
Polite-but-firm persuasion VELVETGLOVE
Prankster's cry IGOTCHA
Promoting harmony UNITIVE
Proverb ending IAL
Purviews AREAS
Quaint quarters INN
Ran a tab OWED
Real-estate listing abbr BDRM
Rise GOUP
Rival of the Citadel VMI
Role for 99 Across ETHEL
Salmon and coral PINKS
Sell off DIVEST
Similar AKIN
Simplicity EASE
Singer known as ''The Voice'' SINATRA
Small loudspeakers TWEETERS
Soft mineral TALC
Spare target, at times NINEPIN
Stallone film of '90 ROCKYV
Technical sch INST
Tennis surface LAWN
TiVo ancestor VCR
Trashy merchandise SCHLOCK
Travel documents VISAS
Treasury Dept. agency IRS
Tubular pasta ZITI
Tuscany city PISA
Type of navel INNIE
Type of pen FELTTIP
Type of tide NEAP
Very short pencil STUB
Video gamers' self-images AVATARS
Vision, in product names VUE
Vitamin amt RDA
Whom Haley replaced as the Tin Woodman EBSEN
Wide tie ASCOT
Winter bug FLU
Woman mentioned in ''The Raven'' LENORE
Word often preceding ''contested'' HOTLY