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Clues Answers
''Be that as it may . . . '' ANYHOW
''Ben-Hur'' star HESTON
''Fresh Air'' airer NPR
''Monsters, __'' (Disney film) INC
''Science Guy'' of TV BILLNYE
''See ya later'' IMOFF
''Wow!'' GEE
''__ evil . . .'' SEENO
''__ for Fugitive'' (Grafton novel) FIS
''__ I'' (''Me too'') SODO
1150, to Caesar MCL
ABA member ATT
Advertising awards CLIOS
Afternoon break SIESTA
Alerts subtly TAPSONTHESHOULDER
Alternative CHOICE
Angry outburst TIRADE
Appearance MIEN
Appends ADDSON
Astronaut Collins EILEEN
Bakery buy TART
Blazing AFIRE
Bring to a halt END
Bring up REAR
Brit's exclamation ISAY
Broke off CEASED
Building site LOT
Certain specs READINGGLASSES
Chapter listings TABLESOFCONTENTS
Cheerful shout YAY
Chess pcs KTS
Choose with a mouse CLICKON
Clumsy one OAF
Coffee order LATTE
Comment REMARK
Consist of ARE
Convenience-store convenience ATM
Cookbook amt TSP
Corp. brass VPS
Courtroom worker STENO
Crime lab sample DNA
Daily grind RUT
Dinghy accessory OAR
Does one better TOPS
Ease into conversation BREAKTHEICE
End of Horner's boast AMI
Exec. level MGT
Fancy ties ASCOTS
Flag support MAST
Frontier settlement OUTPOST
Funny ones RIOTS
Furious MAD
Garden hose problems KINKS
Genius BRAIN
Give one's opinion ADVISE
GPA boosters EASYAS
Gray shade ASH
Had brunch ATE
Hard cheese EDAM
High pt MTN
Hogwarts groundskeeper HAGRID
Hosp. employee LPN
Ill-omened ADVERSE
Inert gas RADON
Influence IMPACT
Influential people MOVERSANDSHAKERS
It splits in two BISECTOR
James __ Garfield ABRAM
Join the cast of ACTIN
Lasting mark SCAR
Level best UTMOST
Likewise not NOR
Clues Answers
Lines with Xings RRS
Loose __ goose ASA
Low cloud STRATUS
Lulus DOOZIES
Luxury hotel chain OMNI
Mars alias ARES
Messes up ERRS
Mineral deposit ORE
Minute amount TAD
Mishandles ABUSES
More robust STOUTER
Most logical SANEST
Moves unpredictably DARTSBACKANDFORTH
Nancy Reagan alma mater SMITH
NFL scores TDS
Noise dampeners EARPLUGS
Not ppd COD
Oils and etchings ART
One-eighth of a circle OCTANT
Pacific salmon COHOS
Pampering place SPA
Penn's partner TELLER
Physicist Mach ERNST
Playground equipment SLIDES
Poetic sphere ORB
Polite address SIR
Pop DAD
Presidential nickname IKE
Prized mounts ARABS
Pun reaction UGH
Putin's rejection NYET
Quiche base EGG
Reparations AMENDS
Ride for a bride LIMO
Ring great ALI
Road-fork shape VEE
Royal staff SCEPTER
Ryder rival UHAUL
Scarlett's third husband RHETT
Scottish hillside BRAE
Secured to a post, perhaps TIED
Shade provider HAT
Shell game CON
Sign of spring GEMINI
Singer Estefan GLORIA
Slippery swimmer EEL
Small bite TASTE
Snicker sound TEHEE
Soccer shout OLE
Sominex alternative NYTOL
Sort of round OVATE
Soup flavoring DILL
Standing together UNITED
Stat for 70 Down KOS
Sticky stuff GOO
Study hard CRAM
Subway of song ATRAIN
Sushi display ROE
Sympathetic sounds AWS
Theme of the puzzle PUB
Thrill rides ROLLERCOASTERS
Time of life AGE
Tiny amount BIT
Tire patterns TREADS
Trojan War hero AENEAS
Turkish fruit FIG
TV captain Jean-__ Picard LUC
Unclogs CLEARS
Univ. or acad SCH
Verb ending IZE
Yahoo! competitor AOL
__ buddies (close pals) BOSOM