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''Coronation Ode'' composer ELGAR
''Dilbert'' engineer TED
''Twine, wine, and hides, and China __'': Thoreau TEAS
''Wheel of Fortune'' category TITLE
''__ at the Grill'' (2009 cookbook) EMERIL
'40s innovation championed by Bing Crosby AUDIOTAPE
20 Across, for one BRIT
Barely visible stars DLIST
Big pictures EPICS
Blots on blocks EYESORES
Boot EXPEL
Brown shade COCOA
Caught NETTED
Chain with carhops SONIC
Choir accessory RISER
College major EDUCATION
Conducts oneself with others DEALS
Corn pests JAPANESEBEETLES
Cup creator REESE
Depths NADIR
Dissolve, perhaps IONIZE
Don't buy it SMELLARAT
Element of cavity protection TIN
Esthetician expertise PEDICURE
Exhausts SPENDS
Far from diffuse TERSE
French first lady's first name CARLA
Fresh nature SASSINESS
Gossip DISH
GPS reading NNE
Had a sudden inspiration GASPED
Highest authorities CHIEFS
Hollow form MOLD
Ideogram + name, often LOGO
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In addition to those ELSE
Klondike or Chicago CARDGAME
Large quantities HERDS
Latent-fingerprint detection aid LASER
Lewis and Clark equipment CANOES
Like some mascara FIBERIZED
Masters of mortarless construction INCAS
Michelin purchase of 1990 UNIROYAL
Nielsen client since 2009 PBS
Nonstop succession WHIRL
Not on deck BELOW
OK LICIT
Part of an emergency supply kit GOBAG
Pirate shout YAR
Places for pads KNEES
Restraining order IXNAY
Scrap in the street RUMBLE
See 44 Down OIL
Silver braids on uniforms LACES
Soft __ SOAP
Some snow frolickers BEARCUBS
Stop running STALL
Symbol of piety SPIRE
T.S. Eliot, by birth AMERICAN
Texas city ODESSA
Things to retrace STEPS
Tie on some courts DEUCE
Two-Oscar winner for 1984 APASSAGETOINDIA
Type of usher GROOMSMAN
Very dark JETBLACK
Very sensitive ACUTE
War zone of 1944 MARIANAS
With 19 Across, staple of Korean cuisine SESAME
Word from the Sanskrit for ''cloth strip'' SARI