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''__ des Belges'' (Philippe, since 2013) ROI
31-state nation MEXICO
8 Down pal of Dalí SERT
After-school activities for many CHORES
Antonym of ''remotely'' INPERSON
Apt rhyme for ''freight'' CRATE
Attendant to Poseidon NEREID
Bard's Trojan War heroine CRESSIDA
Basis of bafflement POSER
Be frugal with EKEOUT
Be startlingly conspicuous SCREAM
Certain feed AUDIO
Company function CASTPARTY
Conventions USAGES
Court player JESTER
Devil-may-care adventure ESCAPADE
Dice-game accessory CUP
Do much more than mutter REBEL
Dryden's ''unfeather'd, two-legg'd'' one SON
Duchamp praised his works as ''nonsense'' ARP
Dusk follower, often MOONRISE
Element in some auto headlights XENON
Excepting SAVE
From pole to pole AXIAL
Gluten source OATS
Grammy nominee since 1996 RAPPER
Have a few TIPPLE
Hid TOOKCOVER
High suit EXEC
Home of Gem, Lewis and Clark Counties: Abbr IDA
Ice conjurer in a Disney film ELSA
Internal impression IDEA
Irregular ABERRANT
It outsells the hot dog at the Brewers' ballpark BRAT
Latter-day ''Good work!'' YOUROCK
Literally, ''remember'' SOUVENIR
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Longtime General Motors collaborator ISUZU
Mark of dojo achievement DAN
Maximally muscular ROPIEST
Mesa people HOPI
Modernist movement of 90 years ago ARTDECO
No-frills, for short STD
One of 60+ San Diego Zoo births OKAPI
Piano players HANDS
Portraitist of Eisenhower and Abdul-Jabbar AVEDON
Produce pompously SPOUT
Raccoon's rainforest cousin KINKAJOU
Rendered emphatically, maybe ITALIC
Rhineland, per the post-WWI treaty DMZ
Rooting section STY
Russian name meaning ''peace'' IRINA
Sagan book whose Chapter Nine is ''Tails'' COMET
Sinbad, for one ARAB
Some NFL blockers TES
Source of juniper oil REDCEDAR
Speak for REP
Star sometimes seen near Venus SERENA
Suffix in astronomy OID
Thermopylae victor XERXESI
They hold drives PCS
They work the hip flexors LEGRAISES
They're often on the house LOANS
Unrelenting STERN
Untainted environments EDENS
Unusual for these parts EXOTIC
Uriah Heep persona SYCOPHANT
Watchword TENET
Where the rubber meets the road TREADS
Whittier plaint ALAS
Without irony INEARNEST
Writer whom a Paris Métro station is named for DUMASPERE
__ cable (smartphone accessory) AUX