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Clues Answers
''Come Back to __'' (Hibernian ballad) ERIN
''Crusade in Europe'' author's monogram DDE
''Nightmare Before Christmas'' aide IGOR
''Sour grapes can __ make sweet wine'' (English proverb) NEER
A, for one ARTICLE
Absence of ease DISCOMFORT
Anchor officer BOSN
Berry beginning ELDER
Bill sources ATMS
Bing Crosby Oscar role PREACHER
Blackout, for instance SKIT
Bogy EVILSPIRIT
Bottom-row key ALT
Cake decorator's design ROSETTE
Chooser's challenge SURPRISEME
Clayey EARTHEN
Clean UNARMED
Daisy Duck niece JUNE
Destructive person HUN
Doctor's office display PLAQUES
Ersatz duck calls OBOES
Escape of a sort LEAKAGE
Eye OGLE
Fairly PRETTY
Fell SANK
Fixed SETINSTONE
Freebies COMPS
Fruit favored by Horace OLIVE
Gang members PUNKS
Get pizza, perhaps ORDERIN
Go far SUCCEED
Go to often HAUNT
Golden: Fr DOR
Guevara portrayer in '08 DELTORO
Hair __ GEL
Clues Answers
Hardest human tissue ENAMEL
Herald, with ''in'' USHER
Homesteader relative SQUATTER
Identifies PEGS
Imitative UNORIGINAL
Introducer of ''Trouble'' PRESTON
It has a head and hops BEER
It may be full of baloney HERO
It stands for 1 EENY
Keen perception TACT
Like some overloads SENSORY
NASA name of the '90s MAE
Neon sign seen in Looney Tunes EATATJOES
Not as clean GRIMIER
Old name for the giraffe CAMELOPARD
Popular bar since the '20s OHHENRY
Radiates EMITS
Reconcile HEAL
Regatta trophy OAR
Richard Burton Shakespearean role of '67 PETRUCHIO
Salad ingredient ROMAINE
Second-century date CLI
Sled-dog wear BOOTEE
Sneezin' reason COLDS
Swiss-born revolutionary MARAT
Syndication offering RERUN
Thimbleful SIP
Understands GETSIT
Unmitigated SHEER
Unusually fine RARE
Walk HOOFIT
Wears down JADES
Western lake bed CRATER
What 7 may be used instead of JUL
Works up RILES