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Clues Answers
'80s Pontiac FIERO
À la AFTER
Advanced coyly SIDLED
Audience for a 1963 JFK speech BERLINERS
Avionics topic ALTIMETRY
Belt's smaller relative SIP
Blow MISDO
Bolt turner KEY
Caterpillar in a forest LOGLOADER
Chocolate/cream dessert MUDPIE
Comic-book flapper CAPE
Comparatively considerable TIDIER
Component of some complexes CONDO
Corner store of a sort BODEGA
Cornwall-bound princess of opera ISOLDE
Cultures often prove its presence STREP
Diver's initial concern ENTRY
Extra charge for an overnight letter? HOTELTAX
EZ SEED brand SCOTTS
Frequent feeders on Washington lawns GEESE
Fruit of some labor HOURLYFEE
Get a banquet going, perhaps ORATE
Gossips, e.g SHARERS
Group in a kids' game HIDERS
How Balzac said ''blue'' TRISTE
Idol, quite possibly ROLEMODEL
Inflationary spiral? AIRHOSE
Inventor of consumable cups REESE
July 4th reports BOOMS
Material for some bed frames ELM
Means of easy advancement BYES
Metaphor for abundance FEAST
Muscle car designation GTO
Newspaper piece SHEET
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Not inert ASTIR
Offhand EXTEMPORE
One with uplifting feet ODE
Parts of clippers STERNS
Piece of yuletide decor CROSSTREE
Quad, to another quad SIB
Responded, in a way WROTEBACK
Salt, perhaps DEICE
Sends off EMITS
Sequel to a 1996 Pulitzer memoir TIS
Shake __ ALEG
Smarts GOODSENSE
Something hanging on an easel SMOCK
Specialist's superior: Abbr SGT
Spots with no difficulty EDENS
Square root of ''cento'' DIECI
Taking off LESS
Tap MAKEUSEOF
Test fan, say NERD
They're not parts of circles OUTSIDERS
Tight bunch PALS
Trebek's first employer as a TV host CBC
Turn off, as an option DESELECT
Upgraded improperly? CHEATEDON
Waterslide constructor OTTER
Way to express affection XOXO
What a ham won't ever be CERTIFIEDKOSHER
What Ahab's leg was made of WHALEBONE
What's west of the Sea of Japan KOREA
Where the heart is TORSO
With justification RIGHTLYSO
Word from the Latin for ''other'' ELSE
Zoo staffer DOCENT
__ point SET