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Clues Answers
''Keep it'' notation STET
''Pass'' NOBID
10-Grammy blues rocker RAITT
African scavengers HYENAS
Author of ''The Colonel and Little Missie'' LARRYMCMURTRY
Bass cousin CELLO
Bat Appreciation Mo OCT
Become unstable, as an orbit DECAY
Big digs ESTATE
Brief confirmation ITIS
Came by GOT
Cascades peak SHASTA
Company with a stag logo DEERE
Composer Stravinsky IGOR
Constellation occupation HUNTER
Covert meeting TRYST
Creative knack ART
Debt payee CREDITOR
Defames SMEARS
Easy runs TROTS
Eel eggs ROE
Ending for free or fan DOM
Escalator developer OTIS
Evil BADNESS
Fantastical UNREAL
Final word SAYSO
First-in-line's line IMNEXT
Former NBC owner RCA
GPS reading ENE
Headphone descriptor INEAR
Horn blasts TOOTS
Hubbub DIN
Improv gear MIKE
In a sly way CAGILY
Intersected MET
It means ''merchandise'' WARE
Clues Answers
Latter-day contact request TEXTME
Marine predators ORCAS
Math book illustration DIAGRAM
Mirthful MERRY
Misstep ERROR
Mount for Quixote's pal ASS
Mr. Spock, in part HUMAN
Mrs. Flintstone WILMA
Much of Micronesia ATOLLS
Obliterate ERASE
On a road trip AWAY
One of the first two ''American superstars,'' per 34 Across' book ANNIEOAKLEY
One of the first two ''American superstars,'' per 34 Across' book BUFFALOBILL
Parliament Hill city OTTAWA
Pasta preference ALDENTE
Prone to wearing EROSIVE
Provides for permanently ENDOWS
Rankle ANNOY
Red wine grape MERLOT
Red wine, for short CAB
Rome's river TIBER
Separate into categories ASSORT
Sked stat ETD
Smokestack-like SOOTY
Something to do ACTIVITY
Stockpile AMASS
Synchronize ATTUNE
Telephone trio MNO
TV promo promise ALLNEW
UK county SHIRE
Ultimate proof ACIDTEST
Unleash LETLOOSE
Video device CAM
Way off AFAR
What a mechanic might fix SETFEE
Whom a short-story award is named for OHENRY