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''That's unfortunate!'' APITY
''The scales fell from my eyes'' ISAWTHELIGHT
42% of Scrabble tiles AEIOU
900+-station network NPR
Approval, so to speak THENOD
Author admired by Sirs ACD and JMB RLS
Becomes more driven about LEANSINTO
Blessing-curse connector ORA
Bolted RAN
Certain wedding official RABBI
Clear a storage unit ERASE
Command the attention of RIVET
Commission, e.g FEE
Congestion is likely to affect them ETAS
Corporate cheque abbr LTD
Criminal signatures MOS
Dalai Lama's former home LHASA
Designer in the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame WANG
End of an early-dealing maxim NINE
Energy source SOL
Exodus 19 setting SINAI
Festive cry OLE
Former Miss Florida pageant home STPETE
From this day forward HENCE
German leaf-blower brand STIHL
Hail in Oz GDAY
Half a converse phrase VERSA
Home for organic filaments STAMEN
Hyperbolize, with ''on'' LAYIT
Italian nickname for Anthony NINO
Legs on a lobster TEN
Lilylike garden plant HOSTA
Liquid in some flambéed desserts COINTREAU
Make clear, or confuse RAVEL
Mere shadows GHOSTS
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Mitigating ALLEVIATIVE
Monsoon region designator AFROASIAN
New England ''Public Ivy'' UCONN
Northern Rockies region: Abbr ALB
Open-pore material SUEDE
Peruvian pronoun ESA
Plugged in HIP
Portfolio adjustments REBALANCING
Potentate's proclamation DECREE
Promulgate SOW
Reaches a new level SOARS
Received avidly ATEUP
Road blocker, at times SNOWSTORM
Salsa verde ingredient TOMATILLO
Semi- doubled OMNI
Sesame, on Southern menus BENNESEED
Smooth pivot SEGUE
Soil's growth potential TILTH
Southeast Asian hot sauce SRIRACHA
Special-event compositions OCCASIONALPOEMS
Spots for wallet-size Kahlo portraits PESOS
Started a growing season, maybe HOED
Starter suggesting miscellany VARI
Starting __ GATE
Strapped PENNILESS
Swells ADDSTO
Terribly awkward CRINGEWORTHY
Throws out EMITS
Time for some wrap parties? YULE
Time for some wrap parties? NOEL
Unassailable IRONCLAD
Urban graffitist's ''canvas'' SUBWAYCAR
Voltage/amperage researcher OHM
Whom Cleopatra identified with ISIS
Word before pack or pick ICE