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''Dark'' drink RUM
''Go help someone else'' IMOK
''Put up or shut up!'' PROVEIT
''Unbelievable!'' OHWOW
1967 Pulitzer novelist MALAMUD
According to ALA
Advance LEND
Advance of a sort ANTE
Adverse (to) ALIEN
Archivist CURATOR
Be absent LACK
Beetles' British cousins MINICOOPERS
Broke down WEPT
Calming comment THERETHERE
Certain status symbol NEWCAR
Character in 200+ films since 1900 DRACULA
Clear ERASE
Cloth DRAPERY
Coin depicting a springbok RAND
Coming soon ONORDER
Designation for Nelson's vessel HMS
Elder, e.g TREE
European prefix INDO
Fairy-tale sensitivity tester PEA
Fan ADMIRER
Food processors CREPEMAKERS
Furnishes RENDERS
Furrow maker HOE
Goes (for) OPTS
Greek goddess of healing PANACEA
Have aspirations INHALE
High-school class HYGIENE
Host mail RSVPS
Hostile reaction FLAK
It's ''written in the face,'' per Fellini FATE
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It's usually felt on the head FEDORA
Kind of down SAD
Landing area PIER
Level TIER
Like ''The Exorcist'' RATEDR
Literally, ''lord'' AGA
Loosen up, perhaps RESPACE
Major Kazakhstan export URANIUM
Matter-of-fact PROSAIC
MD's order CTSCAN
Medicare choice HMO
Michael Keaton's ex in ''Birdman'' AMYRYAN
Morningstar Farms sister brand EGGO
Net 26 Down ECASH
Now and then ADVERBS
Nursery need WIPES
Off __ YEAR
Organized rumor-spreading PROPAGANDA
Permanent HERETOSTAY
Primary color for printer ink MAGENTA
Quitting preceder, perhaps ONEMORETRY
Ray precursor BLU
Scratch MOOLAH
See 23 Down STRITCH
See 54 Down NOT
Settler of some disputes REPLAY
Shipping department abbr PPD
Some help VALETS
Swell thing SURF
Washing place LAV
Welcome thaw DETENTE
While EVENAS
With 1 Across, Baldwin's mom on ''30 Rock'' ELAINE
With 55 Down, emphatic denial ARE
__ town COW