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Clues Answers
''I Love Lucy'' character ETHEL
A great distance AFAR
Al's ''Godfather'' wife DIANE
Assuage EASE
Athletic memento TROPHY
Auto-race boss PITCREWCHIEF
Aware of, informally HIPTO
Be suitable for FIT
Bond before Roger SEAN
Bop on the bean CONK
Burlap fiber HEMP
Contractual detail TERM
Cooper Mohican UNCAS
Crow's quarters NEST
Cultural figure ICON
Delineate deeply ETCH
Digital reading SCAN
Director Anderson WES
Drawer pull KNOB
Dull sound THUD
Educational standards plan COMMONCORE
Elemental variants ISOTOPES
Executive Branch div DEPT
Fit out EQUIP
Forceful and brief PITHY
Goes full bore LETSRIP
Good-for-nothing LOUSE
Grammatical substantive NOUN
Green-lighted OKD
Ground grain MEAL
High point ACME
High-calorie RICH
Hotel freebie PEN
Iso- relative EQUI
Large number SLEW
Learn about HEAROF
Like tears SALINE
London police force founder ROBERTPEEL
Lopsided victories ROMPS
Clues Answers
Marina del __, CA REY
Marsh plant REED
Metaphor for suspicion SEEDSOFDOUBT
Midday ritual LUNCH
Money in Monterrey PESO
Pay, as a bill FOOT
Pine fruit CONE
Place for a lace SHOE
Post-coup group JUNTA
Prefix for motive LOCO
Presently occupied INUSE
Put up a stake ANTE
Red-carpet walker VIP
Retail outlet SHOP
Short on customers SLOW
Signaled one's arrival WAVED
Software menu option HELP
Something in the air ODOR
Squeezes (out) EKES
Started the day late SLEPTIN
Submerged SUNKEN
Substitute's place STEAD
Thief, in brief KLEPTO
Third-largest Hawaiian island OAHU
This instant NOW
Touch borders with ABUT
Trifling PETTY
Vacuum's acquisition DIRT
Vexatious ones PESTS
Video excerpts CLIPS
Volunteer sitter, perhaps AUNT
Washed-out PALE
Wide of the mark OFF
Wines and dines ROMANCES
World Series lead-in: Abbr ALCS
Wrap up END
Wrongful UNJUST
Yearning ACHE
Zero people NOONE