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Clues Answers
''Forget it'' NOPE
A single time ONCE
Abrades CHAFES
Acclaim KUDOS
Artist friend of Degas MANET
Barbecue side dish SLAW
Becomes tiresome WEARS
Blanched PALED
Bookstore category HUMOR
Carpet surface PILE
Caustic alkali LYE
Chem-class expense LABFEE
Church dignitary ELDER
City north of Tel Aviv HAIFA
Col.'s subordinate MAJ
Creeps up on NEARS
Cyberzine EMAG
Dam on the Nile ASWAN
Delinquent GI AWOL
Dinner reservations SEATS
Disagreed BEGGEDTODIFFER
DNA segment GENE
Droid download APP
Earring support LOBE
Essential thing NEED
First responders: Abbr EMTS
Fit for duty ABLE
Fusses at a mirror PREENS
Get the pot going ANTE
Greenhouse gas OZONE
Herbicide target WEED
House painter's calculation AREA
In fine fettle HALE
In this very place HERE
Irish dramatist SHAW
Irish export LACE
Kitchen enticement AROMA
Lake that feeds Niagara Falls ERIE
Likewise not NOR
Clues Answers
Membership symbol PIN
Mixes in ADDS
Naughts ZEROS
Needle feature EYE
Observed furtively STOLEAGLANCEAT
Opening remarks INTRO
Org, with online Pets of the Week ASPCA
Paid parkers VALETS
Play for a sap USE
Ponder, with ''on'' CHEW
Portrait on a dime FDR
Postgame summaries RECAPS
Pulitzer's New York paper WORLD
Range of some flutes ALTO
Revlon rival AVON
Road shoulder BERM
Savoir-faire TACT
Schnitzel meat VEAL
Seats that hold hymnals PEWS
Shogun's domain JAPAN
Short literary work PIECE
Shout of approval YES
Showery WET
Slapstick projectile PIE
Snarly mess TANGLE
Something dropped orally HINT
Splendid formation ARRAY
Sponge opening PORE
Street often near Maple and Oak ELM
Superman's foster parents KENTS
Think ahead PLAN
Tolerated STOOD
Took needless risks BORROWEDTROUBLE
Trowel cousin SPADE
Typical emirate subject ARAB
Verdi heroine AIDA
Was in the red OWED
Write-ins, for example VOTES
Young male zebra COLT