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• Before all else
• With the least delay
• Foremost partner
• Request at KFC, perhaps
• Due date for many bills
• Winning position
• Before anything else
• Paramount
• Opposite of 36-Across
• Widely-panned 2007 thriller
• Ahead of the rest
• Far from trite
• As quickly as possible
• Unchanged or novel