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Clues Answers
''Can you explain?'' HOWSO
''Clair de lune'' key DFLAT
''Le __ Lear'' (Berlioz overture) ROI
''Star Trek Nemesis'' star SPINER
''The Sopranos'' actor ILER
''__ Bohème'' (''Rent'' song) LAVIE
Assists, in a way TIDESOVER
Audit SITIN
Beans NOGGINS
Bonding agents? PARENTS
Buckaroo's ride HOSS
Comics canine SNERT
Computes net weight TARES
Continued at once SEGUED
Contrarily CROSSWISE
Detroit River destination ERIE
Do again REPRISE
Duds ATTIRE
Exploits DEEDS
FICA stipend SSI
Fight ender, perhaps NOSEBLEED
First American literature Nobelist LEWIS
Food processors CANNERS
Fred's partner in ''Silk Stockings'' CYD
Frequent fast-food giveaways GLASSWARE
Fruit favored by Jefferson GHERKIN
Glove material LATEX
Great weight HEFTINESS
Grounded fliers SSTS
Having no more use for TIREDOF
Home-sale aides STAGERS
It's often spoken into microphones TESTING
King of Thailand RAMA
Kirilenko of the NBA ANDREI
Clues Answers
Lather SNIT
Leopard prey OKAPI
Like the slalom TIMED
Look down (on) FROWN
Lost ATSEA
Make __ of AMESS
Most helpful BEST
Nevertheless ATANYRATE
Not bright GRIM
Occult belief SPIRITISM
One not making good OWER
One of Maryland's state symbols CALICOCAT
Party snacks EDAMS
Pause that refreshes REST
Plume source EGRET
Precariously ONTHEEDGE
Raw materials ORES
Self-service practitioner EGOIST
Shut up GAG
Skimming gear WATERSKIS
Smooth applications OINTMENTS
Sort of driver CABBY
Stain SPLOTCH
Symbols of industry BEES
Terrestrially ONLAND
They're obvious TRUISMS
Unavailable INUSE
Unlikely Phi Betes BSTUDENTS
Upgrade one's alarm REWIRE
Vertical lines in math YAXES
Volatile solvents ETHERS
Vouching for OKING
Words of doubt EHS
__ Genevieve, MO STE