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Clues Answers
''Not now'' ILLBERIGHTTHERE
''Not now'' WAITJUSTASECOND
''Not now'' PLEASEBEPATIENT
''Scat!'' SHOO
''Steady as __ goes'' SHE
Add to the payroll HIRE
Adjust, as a radio TUNE
At any time EVER
Batch of laundry LOAD
Big family CLAN
Bring in a harvest REAP
Cattle group HERD
Cider fruit APPLE
City thoroughfare STREET
Cleveland's lake ERIE
Cockpit boss PILOT
Cough syrup amts TSPS
Could possibly MIGHT
CPR pros EMTS
Cuts off, as branches LOPS
Daylight source SUN
Destroys gradually ERODES
Dollar total AMOUNT
Energizes, with ''up'' PEPS
Envelope's routing abbr ATTN
Family-room appliance TVSET
Fortune-tellers SEERS
Fruity breakfast drink JUICE
Hamster or canary PET
Healthful resort SPA
Knot again RETIE
Life's work CAREER
Line on a list ITEM
Major blood vessel AORTA
Map book ATLAS
Milky gem OPAL
Mistake ERROR
Mix, as a salad TOSS
Mountain lion PUMA
Clues Answers
No greater than UPTO
No longer worth debating MOOT
Non-clergy group LAITY
Not at all vivid PALE
Offhanded greeting OHHI
Oil cartel OPEC
One-pot dinner STEW
Opinion pieces ESSAYS
Paradises EDENS
Pave again, as a driveway RETAR
Piece of paper SHEET
Place for an indoor swim POOL
Practice boxing SPAR
Prefix for freeze ANTI
Purple flower LILAC
Rebounding sound ECHO
Roads that often cross a 47 Across: Abbr AVES
Sales receipts SLIPS
San __, CA DIEGO
Small bites NIPS
Small crown TIARA
Sofa COUCH
Sort of steak TBONE
Stand up RISE
Surgical venues: Abbr ORS
Take a chair SIT
Takes a breather RESTS
Thinly scattered SPARSE
Tidy NEAT
Turn __ a new leaf OVER
Ultimatum ender ELSE
Viking explorer __ the Red ERIC
Vitality VIGOR
Watery castle defense MOAT
Well qualified ABLE
Wicked EVIL
__ and crafts ARTS
__ mater (school you went to) ALMA
__ nothing (betting option) ALLOR