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Clues Answers
''Goosebumps'' writer STINE
''Got it, dude!'' IMHIP
''I'm crossing my fingers!'' HOPESO
''No __'' (menu phrase) MSG
''That is . . .'' IMEAN
''To a . . .'' work ODE
Answer to a charge PLEA
Argyles, e.g. SOCKS
Bard's ''before'' ERE
Breakfast beverage ASSAMTEA
Carnival ride TILTAWHIRL
Carrots' platemates PEAS
Castaway's escape mode RAFT
Chat-room ''I think'' IMO
Chowed down ATE
Cruise routes SEALANES
Curio-cabinet contents BRICABRAC
Dad PAPA
Deploys USES
Everest guide SHERPA
Fictional sleuth Drew NANCY
Foolish one DINGALING
From Cork IRISH
Galileo and neighbors PISANS
Groups on the range HERDS
Half a sextet TRIO
Hang in there LAST
Have a bug AIL
Is priced at COSTS
Jazz genre BOP
Keyboard key ALT
Like library books LOANED
Like tasty brownies FUDGY
LP successors CDS
Make a pick OPT
Making all stops LOCAL
No longer novel STALE
Nuisance PEST
Off-ramp EXIT
Clues Answers
Ogled LEEREDAT
Party setup TENT
People to hang out with PALS
Plane-wing part FLAP
Public to-do SCENE
Purplish hue LILAC
Reclusive and austere MONASTIC
Reunion group CLASS
Robin Hood colleague ALLANADALE
Sacred song MOTET
Seafarers' assents AYES
Smelter loads ORES
Soothes, as fear ALLAYS
Sports figure STAT
Stable bedding STRAW
Stage creations SETS
Stan's comedic partner OLLIE
Stew holders POTS
Strikes back, perhaps REACTS
Sty sound OINK
Stylish SPORTY
Submit to gravity SAG
Sunday circular subjects SALES
Swimsuit part BRA
Symbol of industriousness ANT
Tear to bits REND
Thirst for WANT
Truckloads ALOT
Turnpike toll units AXLES
Unravel at the edges FRAY
Vivacity LIFE
Wander about GAD
Water-balloon impact sounds SPLATS
Wee hour TWO
Where Laotians live ASIA
Work the land FARM
Yalies ELIS
Ye __ Shoppe OLDE
__-European languages INDO