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Clues Answers
''12 Days of Christmas'' verb PIPING
''Drat!'' OHNUTS
''Get lost!'' SCRAM
''Me too'' SOAMI
''On the Road'' narrator SAL
''Star Wars'' robot DROID
1: __ (classical music) OPERASBYBEETHOVEN
3: __ (zoology) HEARTSOFANOCTOPUS
4/15 addressee IRS
5: __ (sports) RINGSONTHEOLYMPICFLAG
7: __ (ancient tourism) WONDERSOFTHEWORLD
9: __ (gambling) BACCARATHIGHSCORE
Add sound effects, say DUB
Atlanta campus EMORY
Average NBAer, compared to the average NFLer TALLER
Balance center INNEREAR
Barbadian singer RIHANNA
Barbecue toppings RUBS
Bed of a dry lake MUDFLAT
Beginner NOVICE
Big lug OAF
Bowl over WOW
Bright northern star ALTAIR
Bunch of buddies GANG
Caesarean rebuke ETTU
Calibrate to get straight ALIGN
Capital of Cyprus NICOSIA
Capital on the Mississippi STPAUL
Chatroom ha-ha LOL
Clue in TV crimes DNA
Comedian Poehler AMY
Counting everything ALLTOLD
Country with the most lakes CANADA
Crisis key on a PC ESC
Crisis squad SWATTEAM
Cuisine with baba ghanouj LEBANESE
Custard dessert FLAN
Dakota or Winnebago SIOUAN
Defamatory writing LIBEL
Designer Ashley LAURA
Discoveries FINDS
Drink that may be pink TEA
E. Germany, to natives DDR
Early 11th-century date MIV
Eminent conductor MAESTRO
End of UNESCO's URL ORG
Enumerates LISTS
Extend a lease RENEW
Exxon's ex-name ESSO
First Daughter of the 2010s SASHA
Former fast flier CONCORDE
Garfield's middle name ABRAM
German winged one ENGEL
Get __ of (obtain) AHOLD
Good cholesterol HDL
Guy's dressy accessory TIEPIN
Hair braids PLAITS
Harper Lee's home ALABAMA
Have some water HYDRATE
Historian __ Kearns Goodwin DORIS
Holey utensil SIEVE
HS auxiliary PTA
Immunity agents TCELLS
Infuriation IRE
It means ''made of'' INE
Joan of marathon fame BENOIT
Khruschchev colleague CASTRO
Larcenous one THIEF
Latin jazz SALSA
Leave stranded MAROON
Clues Answers
Letters on toothpaste tubes ADA
Lowered oneself KNELT
Lyrical filler TRALALA
Main idea THEME
Major outcry STINK
Mandate ORDER
Mariah of music CAREY
Mental perception KEN
Metal that's ''precioso'' ORO
Mother Teresa, by birth ALBANIAN
Navajo neighbors HOPIS
No longer pristine TAINTED
One on the force COP
Overly glib PAT
Pays (up) ANTES
Persian speaker IRANI
PFC superiors NCOS
Picnic refreshments SODAPOPS
Plank defect WARP
Poet's preposition ERE
Polo participant HORSE
Precincts AREAS
President pro __ TEM
Quaint complaint WOEISME
Ready-made lawn SOD
Rewards for running MEDALS
Sacha Baron Cohen persona BORAT
Screen of old ATMs CRT
Seaman's superior: Abbr ENS
Second to __ (the best) NONE
Shakes severely ROCKS
Sheltered water BAY
Sign of summer LEO
Sign of winter FROST
Skater's gig ICESHOW
Slow movers SNAILS
Small crown TIARA
Soccer fan's cheer OLE
Sounds content AAHS
Spanish aunt TIA
Speedway acronym NASCAR
Spending limit CAP
Stagger LURCH
Statutes LAWS
Steakhouse serving TBONE
Straight and tall ERECT
Sub for a band SITIN
Subordinate staff AIDES
Sushi fish EEL
Systematic study SCIENCE
Take a vow SWEAR
Tennis great Andre AGASSI
Thick carpeting SHAG
This: Sp ESTO
Timetable stats ETAS
TiVo ancestor VCR
Tragic eloper ROMEO
Train of thought TENOR
Triangular peninsula SINAI
Twisting force TORSION
USA alliance NATO
Use credit OWE
Vena __ (major vessel) CAVA
View from Nice MER
Wasteful PRODIGAL
What holds 16 Down in cans ALUMINUM
When many get paid FRIDAYS
Withdraw, with ''out'' OPT
Writer Quindlen ANNA
__ Lanka SRI