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Clues Answers
''All finished!'' IMDONE
''Initial'' root beer brand AANDW
''Poison'' climbing vine IVY
''The Rubáiyát'' poet OMARKHAYYAM
''Where did __ wrong?'' IGO
''__ playing our song'' THEYRE
Airplane's garage HANGAR
Attorney's expertise LAW
Before, in poems ERE
Beginning stage ONSET
Bit of heredity GENE
Bit of sunlight RAY
Black-and-white cookies OREOS
Bread, before it's baked DOUGH
British nobles above earls DUKES
Chair or stool SEAT
Chew like a beaver GNAW
Clean with a broom SWEEP
Combined, as several persons' funds POOLED
Cooking area without walls OPENKITCHEN
Cries of surprise OHS
Crunchy sandwich initials BLT
Declared under oath SWORE
Distant FAR
Do harm to HURT
Does research (on) READSUP
Double-curve letter ESS
Elbow's location ARM
Enclosed area for chickens HENYARD
End an airplane flight LAND
End-of-term exam FINAL
Entangle, as yarn RAVEL
Fire hydrant attachment HOSE
Fourth month of the year APRIL
Gadget to open shellfish OYSTERKNIFE
Game cube with spots DIE
Genre of ''Star Wars'' films SCIFI
Get married WED
Grain in sushi RICE
Clues Answers
Informal denial NOPE
Inquired ASKED
Italy's capital, to Italians ROMA
Jogger's pace TROT
Julius Caesar's language LATIN
Lavish parties FETES
Loosened (up) EASED
Male ducks DRAKES
More pitch-black INKIER
Most ancient, discovered so far OLDESTKNOWN
Motorists' org AAA
Oklahoma Native American ARAPAHO
Our planet EARTH
Person from Stockholm SWEDE
Point at a target AIM
Rio __ (Texas border river) GRANDE
Ripped TORE
Ship of 1492 NINA
Short Japanese poem HAIKU
Sicilian volcano ETNA
Slim and agile LITHE
Spaghetti or ravioli PASTA
Stand up ARISE
Start a hole of golf TEEUP
Suffix for luncheon ETTE
Suffix meaning ''resident'' ITE
Take away, despite resistance DRAGOFF
The Caribbean, for one SEA
Thin soup BROTH
Tiny, informally EENY
Top of a toothpaste tube CAP
Tree that might be near an oak ELM
Turn the __ cheek OTHER
World Wide Web THENET
Worries (about) FRETS
__ Allan Poe EDGAR
__ and groan (complain) MOAN
__ out a living (just get by) EKE
__-mo replay SLO