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Clues Answers
''Believe it or __ . . .'' NOT
''Personal'' top scores BESTS
''__, meeny, miney, moe'' EENY
Absolutely nothing NIL
Astronaut Armstrong NEIL
Athletes' hand protections WRISTGUARDS
Attention-getting shout HEY
Avoids skillfully SIDESTEPS
Back of a brooch PIN
Barely warm TEPID
Baton Rouge sch LSU
Be suspicious, informally SMELLARAT
Bend (over) STOOP
Big inconveniences HASSLES
Blend with a spoon STIRIN
Break into bits SMASH
Campout dwellings TENTS
Chicago White __ (baseball team) SOX
Clear up, as a windshield DEFOG
Director Woody ALLEN
Doctor's prescriptions DRUGS
Electric car company TESLA
Enthusiastic about BIGON
Every 24 hours DAILY
Feast __ famine ORA
Forehead BROW
Game show host EMCEE
General's fighting force ARMY
Give a nickname to DUB
Golf peg TEE
Internet address: Abbr URL
Islam's Almighty ALLAH
Joke's ending PUNCHLINE
Large coffeemaker URN
Lawn-trimming tool EDGER
Leader of the Vatican POPE
Letter after kay ELL
Make a sweater KNIT
Make very happy ELATE
Clues Answers
Mediterranean island nation MALTA
Metallic rocks ORES
Mistake ERROR
Multiyear savings accts CDS
Narrow cuts SLITS
National bird EAGLE
No-fat eater of rhyme SPRAT
Occupied a chair SAT
Ocean's rise and fall TIDE
Olympics high-leaping event POLEVAULT
Persons who fib TALETELLERS
Pigpen STY
Pioneering rock-video channel MTV
Pod veggie PEA
Prepare, as a museum exhibit CURATE
Print-shop roller INKER
Quick RAPID
Quick scissor cuts SNIPS
Radiated, as charm EXUDED
Recuperate from weariness RESTUP
Region with Iowa and Nebraska MIDWEST
Reschedule for later DEFER
Salon colorists DYERS
Shopping center MALL
Standish of Plymouth Colony MYLES
Storm drain SEWER
Suffix for kitchen ETTE
Supreme Court justice Ruth __ Ginsburg BADER
Temporary peace TRUCE
Timid SHY
Trio in ''fusses'' ESSES
Vending machine's place for coins SLOT
Very nervous ANTSY
Viewer-supported TV network PBS
Viking __ the Red ERIC
Vote like ''aye'' YEA
Wear away ERODE
Witch trial city SALEM
__ Island (former immigration center) ELLIS