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Clues Answers
''A likely story!'' IBET
''Aida'' composer GIUSEPPEVERDI
''Feliz Navidad'' singer/guitarist JOSEFELICIANO
''__ Adventures in Wonderland'' ALICES
Annoy NETTLE
Apart from EXCEPT
Baba of the Arabian Nights ALI
Base-clearing hits HOMERS
Baseball great Ripken CAL
Bean in some soups LIMA
Bind up, as grain SHEAVE
Bit of gossip RUMOR
Blender blade's sound WHIR
Boomer's kid, for short XER
Casual conversation CHAT
Caulking material PUTTY
Chimp or baboon APE
Chocolate-substitute plants CAROBS
Colored part of the eye IRIS
Common practice USAGE
Cooler for a cocktail ICE
Cover with asphalt PAVE
Eve's second son ABEL
Explorer __ the Red ERIC
Eye rudely OGLE
Film excerpts SCENES
Firefighters' tools AXES
First cousin's father UNCLE
Freight car rider HOBO
Glee club voice ALTO
Gore's running mate in 2000 JOSEPHLIEBERMAN
Gotten out of bed RISEN
Harry Potter's bird OWL
Higher than OVER
Hill of sand DUNE
Hoarse voice RASP
Hopping pal of Pooh ROO
Implement pulled by oxen PLOW
Indoor sports venue ARENA
Clues Answers
Installed like tiles INLAID
Keep from happening AVERT
Knighted actor Michael CAINE
Large brass instruments TUBAS
Lasting mark SCAR
Left, on a map WEST
Letters after F GHIJ
Letters on our stamps USA
Marching band percussion DRUM
Mysterious glow AURA
Nickname for a pastor REV
No-show at school TRUANT
Not quite shut AJAR
Novelist Morrison TONI
Nuisance PEST
One in school PUPIL
Opinion piece ESSAY
Periods in history ERAS
Person from the Leaning Tower's city PISAN
Prayer conclusion AMEN
Prefix meaning ''modern'' NEO
Quick to learn APT
Read digitally SCAN
Relay racer's path LANE
Ripped apart TORE
River near Shakespeare's home AVON
Rub harshly CHAFE
Shaggy hair MANE
Sound of scissors SNIP
Spiritual advisor GURU
Student of Socrates PLATO
Superman foe Luthor LEX
Take out a lease RENT
Touch on the shoulder TAP
Typical high schooler TEEN
Unwitting victim STOOGE
VIP's auto LIMO
Wed on the run ELOPE
Wide urban st AVE