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Clues Answers
''So long!'' TATA
Astronauts' org. NASA
Audio counterpart VIDEO
Back talk SASS
Ballpoint filler INK
Boscs and Bartletts PEARS
Colonizing insects ANTS
Corp. bigwig PRES
Cruel one BEAST
Defeat, slangily WHIP
Devoured EATEN
Distress signal SOS
Entice sneakily ROPEIN
Escalator alternative STAIRS
Exist ARE
Explosions BLASTS
Get-up-and-go PEP
Gold bar INGOT
Gravy flaws LUMPS
Great Salt Lake state UTAH
High points ACMES
High-fives SLAPS
Historical periods ERAS
Hungarian goulash, essentially STEW
In a competent manner ABLY
Job benefit, for short PERK
Large body of water SEA
Lawn invaders WEEDS
Lotus-position discipline YOGA
Lower in fat LEANER
Major blood vessel AORTA
Makes simpler EASES
Marathon, for one RACE
Minestrone, for instance SOUP
Minimal amount LEAST
Neck of the woods AREA
Need a break TIRE
Nostalgic clothing style RETRO
Notion IDEA
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Novel's protagonist HERO
Of sound mind SANE
On a sofa SEATED
Orange-and-black cats TIGERS
Orderly NEAT
Owl sounds HOOTS
Pile up AMASS
Places for carnations LAPELS
Poems of praise ODES
Prefix for freeze ANTI
Price-tag info COST
Printer's error TYPO
Proofs of age, for short IDS
Rabbit relative HARE
Radar images BLIPS
Recedes EBBS
Reindeer pilot SANTA
Roused from sleep AWOKE
Rye or pumpernickel BREAD
Sharpen HONE
Small streams BROOKS
Speak unclearly SLUR
Spinning toys TOPS
Stage performer ACTOR
Steer clear of SHUN
Store exchange-window complaint WHYCANTIGETCASH
Store exchange-window story WEHAVEONELIKEIT
Store exchange-window story ITSTOOSMALLONME
Strong string TWINE
Stubborn __ mule ASA
Swiss capital BERN
Symbol of evil SATAN
Take off the shelf USE
Unable to decide TORN
Wander around ROAM
Where office clerks work DESKS
Wood-cutting tool SAW
Woodwind instrument OBOE
__ Baba ALI