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''Au contraire!'' NOTSO
''Idol'' runner-up of 2003 AIKEN
''People'' cover poser, July 1980 WHOSHOTJR
''Still Hungry After All These Years'' autobiographer SIMMONS
''Suit of lights'' wearer TOREADOR
''To clarify . . .'' IDEST
'80s WrestleMania headliner MRT
Aerial anomalies UFOS
AL, NHL, or NBA team BOS
AL, NHL, or NBA team DET
Amazon offering EBOOK
Apathetic INCURIOUS
Bent INSTINCT
Certain accents BURRS
Claustrophobe, supposedly PISCES
Climber's accessory AXE
Combative TRUCULENT
Committed careerist LIFER
Conversational taboo SORESPOT
Cramped, quite possibly ONEROOM
Creamery effects SWIRLS
Cut drastically HALVE
Embellished ORNATE
Features of some fridges ODORS
Get on AGE
Gross PRETAX
Group seeking satisfaction AVENGERS
Group well-known for their spring collection IRS
Hard to separate, perhaps INLOVE
Her father and brother were mayors of Baltimore PELOSI
Hiccup remedies SCARES
Hunter's cap MONTERO
Industry pioneered by Ben Franklin MAILORDER
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Insipid DRYASDUST
Jug-band instrument SPOONS
Kind of canine EYETOOTH
Large plain STEPPE
Like some beaver habitats LAKY
Literally, ''skyward'' ELAL
Memorable wizard debunker TOTO
Microcosmic ecosystems TERRARIA
Network once known as Noggin NICKJR
New arrival SETTLER
Pan companions SATYRS
Particular CHOOSY
Perception, in Parma SENSO
Piercing COLD
Piercing SHRILL
Porous OPEN
Portrayer of George in ''Bringing Up Baby'' ASTA
Promotional no-no PAYOLA
Quarters not worth much HOVELS
Scenes of disarray RATSNESTS
Sermons, often PARABLES
Service VIP PASTOR
Shakespearean character urged to ''be angry'' ASP
Some divinity studies PIETAS
Some of Ken Jennings' ''Jeopardy!'' winnings TITHE
Sonnet portions SESTETS
Subjugate OPPRESS
Symbol of ease PIE
They'll get under your skin PARERS
Thin LANK
Venerate LOOKUPTO
__ Poke (caramel candy) SLO
__ Valley, AZ ORO