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''American Buffalo'' playwright MAMET
''And so to bed'' writer PEPYS
''Color of Money'' character EDDIE
''Fox in Socks'' author SEUSS
''Hmmm . . .'' ISEE
''Is You Is or Is You __ . . .'' AINT
27 Across deliverer ORATOR
A month of Sundays AGES
All over again ANEW
Annoyance, so to speak THORN
Appear to be SEEM
Aria, for one SONG
Arizona's third-largest city MESA
Art subject NUDE
Author Uris LEON
Bags of tricks, so to speak ARSENALS
Bass-line introducer FCLEF
Be abundant TEEM
Bear in the air URSA
Beauty-pageant wear SASH
Became WAS
Ben Hogan contemporary SNEAD
Bourbon royal name LOUIS
Box-office letters SRO
Busy period RUSH
Camp time SUMMER
Caribbean island STKITTS
Certain Norway native LAPP
Certain whiskies RYES
Chihuahua cheer OLE
Cinema sign EXIT
Compass reading ESE
Creatures with quills HEDGEHOGS
Criminal, informally PERP
Critical comment SLAP
Cruise-itinerary phrase ATSEA
Daredevil Knievel EVEL
Defeat soundly TROMP
Dizzy's music BOP
Do a brake job REPAD
Dorian Gray creator WILDE
Down source EIDER
Dutch __ disease ELM
Emulate Sylvester J. Pussycat LISP
Express one's views OPINE
Extinguish DOUSE
Festive occasions GALAS
Florida State Fair site TAMPA
French diarist NIN
Gershwin's ''Cuban Overture'', e.g. RHUMBA
Gets rid of WEEDSOUT
Golfer's concern GRIP
Gravity-powered vehicle SLED
Green-egg layers EMUS
Halt, at sea AVAST
Halves of a figure eight ESSES
Harold Arlen musical BLOOMERGIRL
Haydn nickname PAPA
Highest ranked, as a tourney entrant TOPSEEDED
Hoi polloi GRASSROOTS
Horse : filly :: sheep : __ EWELAMB
Hotbeds NESTS
Ilk SORT
Iron wear RUST
Items of value ASSETS
Jazz phrase RIFF
Later on AFTER
Lead performer FRONTMAN
Like ghost towns DESERTED
Lolita's surname HAZE
Madonna film role EVITA
Maintain AFFIRM
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Make a match PAIR
Manuscript changes EDITS
Medical-research specimen STEMCELL
Mia ex ANDRE
Ministers to NURSES
Mischievous one PIXIE
Mitigate EASE
Modern pennies, mostly ZINC
Money in Monaco EUROS
Motown superstar GAYE
Mr. Kringle KRIS
Much ALOT
Nightmare of a boss OGRE
Notice ESPY
Occult poems RUNES
Oral SPOKEN
Outrigger accessory OAR
Pakistani language URDU
Part of Silly Putty instructions USES
Patients' Bill of Rights supporter AMA
Pays (up) ANTES
Pays tribute to SALUTES
Pennsylvania neighbor OHIO
Pennsylvania neighbor ERIE
Perused LEAFEDTHROUGH
Poor grades DEES
Potent punch SANGRIA
Preposterous INANE
Put off DEFERRED
Red Muppet ELMO
Redoes ALTERS
Removes, as rinds PEELS
Roeper's partner EBERT
Ronnie of the Ronettes SPECTOR
Salary starter BASEPAY
SASE, e.g. ENCL
See 111 Down GOES
Shampoo direction SHAKE
Sharp spasm THROE
Sicilian spewer ETNA
Singer Fitzgerald ELLA
Size up ASSESS
Sky shade AZURE
Sleep, so to speak ZEES
Slice PART
Solemn statement OATH
Solidify CLOT
Something to flip LID
Squeegee, essentially WIPER
Stop early NIPINTHEBUD
Suitable, in product names RITE
Sunblock letters SPF
Sunshade VISOR
Tailor's tool SHEARS
Teheran native IRANI
Testimonial address, for one FLOWERYSPEECH
The next generation HEIRS
Tiresome grind RUT
Tops AONE
Totally ALL
Transp. lines RRS
Triangular-shaped letter DELTA
Truckloads SCADS
Typing-speed stat. WPM
Unprofessional BUSHLEAGUE
Van Gogh subject IRIS
Very pale ASHEN
Was helpful to AIDED
With 110 Down, introductory comment HERE
Yale student ELI
__ Alto, CA PALO
__ facto IPSO