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Clues Answers
''Burning'' Johnny Cash tune RINGOFFIRE
''Darn it!'' HECK
''Garfield'' pooch ODIE
''Looks like trouble!'' UHOH
''You can count on me!'' IMIN
100% complete ENTIRE
Abandon suddenly JILT
Before, in poetry ERE
Brow line FURROW
Bubbly beverage SODA
Casual cotton tops TSHIRTS
Change gears SHIFT
Chapter of history ERA
Crude cartel OPEC
Daze or amaze STUN
Degree for many a prof PHD
Delay for a while DEFER
Design detail, for short SPEC
Difficult to bend STIFF
Disentangle UNSNARL
Drain the strength of SAP
EXPRESS: 12 __ OR LESS ITEMS
Fairy tale fiend OGRE
Fighter jets' HQ AFB
First rate, informally PRIMO
For mature audiences RRATED
Gadget atop a barn VANE
Get one's bearings ORIENT
Get the point of SEE
Give off, as light EMIT
Greek cheese FETA
Greets formally BOWSTO
Harvard U.'s state MASS
Infamous Roman emperor NERO
Informal eatery CAFE
Informal refusal NOPE
Inscribed WROTE
Investible cash obtained from a group POOLOFFUNDS
Judge's domain COURTOFLAW
Clues Answers
Jump up and down (on) STOMP
Knee MRI target ACL
Lean to one side TILT
Leisurely run TROT
Leopard or lion FELINE
Lift with difficulty HEFT
Liquid lubricant OIL
Men's chorus voice TENOR
Metal in bronze TIN
Mideast monarch EMIR
Natural balm ALOE
Neither here __ there NOR
Observable area FIELDOFVIEW
Optimistic emotion HOPE
Pasta nutrient, for short CARB
Person from Istanbul TURK
Pests in a pantry ANTS
Planetary paths ORBITS
Prefix meaning ''height'' ACRO
Repetitive learning ROTE
Seasoned expert OLDPRO
Silent performers MIMES
Somewhat, so to speak SORTA
Song for a couple DUET
Sound from a loudspeaker AUDIO
South Pacific nation FIJI
Spanish boy NINO
Spine of a ship KEEL
Starchy side dish, slangily TATER
Strange and scary EERIE
Tennis great Sampras PETE
Thin part of a guitar NECK
Think through carefully PLANOUT
Used to be WERE
Women's chorus section ALTOS
__ about (approximately) ONOR
__ and cheese (kids' lunch) MAC
__ Domingo (Caribbean capital) SANTO
__-la-la (song syllables) TRA