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''It __ just one of your holiday games'' (Eliot on naming cats) ISNT
''Sure'' PLEASEDO
@__ (Twitter handle promoting connections) ATT
Abstain, say OPTOUT
Accordion cover material NACRE
Action __ ITEM
Artistic expression MODE
Betray boisterousness ROAR
Big name in Buddhism DALAI
Bug-catching period BETA
Cancún kin TIO
Catcher of many intruders at 10 Downing Street CAT
Catorce de febrero sentimiento AMOR
Colonial Williamsburg roles SMITHS
Convincing PLAUSIBLE
Drapery sample SARI
Emphasized, for short ITAL
End of many an art movement ISM
Eton-educated composer ARNE
Express BID
Fictional foe of Richelieu DARTAGNAN
Foresters, for instance ECOLOGISTS
Friendship rings of a sort LEIS
Good reception WELCOME
Grisham creations LEGALTHRILLERS
Group sold as a set SUITE
Having overcharged? INDEBT
Ill-fitting? INAPT
International org. with an Ambassadog SPCA
Iranian ancestors MEDES
It's bound to confound POSER
Long-lasting, in product names SLO
Means without constraint ABSOLUTEPOWER
Mined material SALT
Name related to Reginald RYNE
Not steadily ATTIMES
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Old Testament kingdom MOAB
Olympic Village locale (August 1984) UCLA
One in a cast with a cause ACTORVIST
Oppressed, with ''upon'' TROD
Option used by 94% of US individuals for 2020 EFILE
Over the top HISTRIONIC
Penn, e.g IVY
Perfect vision IDEAL
Pre-Columbian corn beer brewer INCA
Presenter of Horace Mann Awards NEA
Really bad EVIL
Results of rifts SECTS
Scoundrel CUR
Second-in-line to the Windsor throne, c. 1955 ANNE
Siphons off SAPS
Small seal SIGNET
Snoot's surplus EGO
Snowmelt collector BASIN
Start taking things seriously GETITTOGETHER
Supernova by-products NEUTRINOS
Taking from a timetable VIA
The first baba ghanoush preparers LEBANESE
Tony Award, in part PEWTER
Topic in the history ''Amber, Gold & Black'' PALEALE
Uncouth, metaphorically RAISEDBYWOLVES
UPC symbol inventor IBM
Wall calendar abbr TUE
Well fixed INERT
When many celebrate Canada Day ETE
Where Sam played it CAFE
With feathers, as an arrow VANED
With the group ALONG
Word often elided in headlines ARE
Word on many South Carolina picture postcards MYRTLE
Work with, as wolframite SMELT
__-Pas-de-Calais (region close to Dover) NORD