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"Antiques Roadshow" network PBS
"Go ahead, make my day" IDAREYOU
"Othello" villain IAGO
"Rocky II," e.g. SEQUEL
"___ Brute?" ETTU
''Abdulla Bulbul ___'' (1877 song) AMEER
''Are you a man ___ mouse?'' ORA
''Are you a man ___ mouse?'' ORA
''Embraceable ___'' YOU
''God shed His grace on ___'' THEE
''Members ___'' ONLY
''Members ___'' ONLY
''Yes, monsieur!'' OUI
''Yes, monsieur!'' OUI
''___ Flanders'' MOLL
A bill TEN
A salty lake ARAL
Aardvark snacks ANTS
Abbreviation in a proof QED
Abrasive files RASPS
Abrasive files RASPS
Acclaim ECLAT
Action word VERB
Actress Andress URSULA
Actress Zadora PIA
Ad-___ (improvises) LIBS
Ad-___ (improvises) LIBS
Admiration ESTEEM
African nation CHAD
Alleged conjurer Geller URI
American Red Cross organizer Barton CLARA
Ammonia compound UREA
Analyze ore ASSAY
Andrews, in Md. AFB
Andrews, in Md. AFB
Anglo-___ War BOER
Ann ___, Mich. ARBOR
Approximately ORSO
Articulate SAY
Asta's mistress NORA
Atlantic shipping nemesis BERMUDATRIANGLE
Authority to decide SAYSO
Authority to decide SAYSO
Baghdad's country IRAQ
Bank holding LIEN
Barters DEALS
Base individuals? TROOPS
Bases, chemically ALKALIES
Bat eyelashes, perhaps FLIRT
Bat eyelashes, perhaps FLIRT
Batten down the hatches CIRCLETHEWAGONS
Bechamel, e.g. SAUCE
Become tattered WEAR
Berlioz's ''Les nuits d'___'' ETE
Berne's river AAR
Big splash at Seaworld SHAMU
Bikini or Johnson, e.g. ATOLL
Bloodshot RED
Bloodshot RED
Body that's heavenly ASTRAL
Brinker of ''The Silver Skates'' HANS
Buckeye's school (Abbr.) OSU
Bug PESTER
Butcher's offerings CUBESTEAKS
Captain Hook's underling SMEE
Caribbean resort ARUBA
Cause euphoria ELATE
Certain camera, initially SLR
Certain camera, initially SLR
Certain cycle RINSE
Certain exercise SITUP
Certain movie role LEAD
Certain rattlesnake or terrapin DIAMONDBACK
Change a contract, e.g. AMEND
Charcoal drawing, e.g. SKETCH
Cheap cigar STOGY
Cheer leader? CEE
Chelmsford's county ESSEX
Chilling, in a way EERIE
Chilling, in a way EERIE
City in South Korea TAEGU
City not far from Butte HELENA
Clear, as a chalkboard ERASE
Coat you throw away RIND
Cockamamie INANE
Cockamamie INANE
Coffee shop words AULAIT
College boosters, usually ALUMS
Come-on LINE
Comedienne DeGeneres ELLEN
Comedienne DeGeneres ELLEN
Command levels ECHELONS
Compared poorly? PALED
Comprehend SEE
Computer signpost ICON
Concerning, in legalese INRE
Concerning, in legalese INRE
Congressional meeting (Abbr.) SESS
Countries in special alliance BLOC
Country hoedown SQUAREDANCE
Country hoedown SQUAREDANCE
Courageous GUTTY
Coward's confession? IRAN
Cumbersome BULKY
Curved Alaskan knife ULU
Cut off from a whole LOP
Cut off from a whole LOP
Decompose ROT
Decompose DECAY
Deep cut GASH
Describing pitch TONAL
Describing pitch TONAL
Desi Arnaz, for one CUBAN
Detroit pistons are here ENGINE
Digitize, as a photo SCAN
Dior's forte DESIGNS
Distress signal SOS
Does a hatchet job on? HEWS
Does a hatchet job on? HEWS
Dol. fractions CTS
Dol. fractions CTS
Donald and Ivana, e.g. EXES
Dressy synthetic RAYON
Drink too much TOPE
Dry white wine SOAVE
Duck with soft down EIDER
Duck with soft down EIDER
Duct extension? ILE
Duct extension? ILE
Dyeing plant ANIL
Early Iranian MEDE
Early Iranian MEDE
Earth's southernmost latitude ANTARCTICCIRCLE
Edison's park MENLO
Edison's park MENLO
Eggs' contents YOLKS
Elevator inventor OTIS
Emulate a boomarang CURVEINWARD
Emulate a boomarang CURVEINWARD
Emulate Paul Revere ALERT
Ending for buck EROO
Engine type FOURCYLINDER
Entertainer Horne LENA
Entertainer Kelly EMMETT
Evils ILLS
Expression of disappointment TSK
Expression of disappointment TSK
Exquisite FINE
Famous loser in a 5-Across HARE
Farm building BARN
Faster's opposite? EATER
Father of Ajax and Teucer TELAMON
Father of Ajax and Teucer TELAMON
Feel in the gut SENSE
Festive occasion FETE
Fierce whale ORCA
Fierce whale ORCA
Fireplace fodder LOGS
Fishes, in a way TROLLS
Foot in the forest PAW
Foot in the forest PAW
Fords WADES
Fords WADES
Formulator of the third law of thermodynamics NERNST
Fort Knox slab INGOT
Foul callers, briefly UMPS
Fresh milk container? UDDER
Fresh milk container? UDDER
Front the money LEND
Gave away verbally TOLD
German link UND
German link UND
Giving the once over EYING
Goddess of fertility ISIS
Green's feature HOLE
Hardly the gregarious type LONER
Hardly the gregarious type LONER
Harvest REAP
Has some French toast? EATSASQUAREMEAL
Have a hunch SENSE
Have a hunch SENSE
Have a mortgage, say OWE
Hawaiian island LANAI
Headliner STAR
Headsman's tool AXE
Heavenly bear URSA
Hebrew prophet ELIJAH
Her face ''launched a thousand ships'' HELEN
Hereditary factor GENE
Highway construction crew's supplies CONES
Home of the Mustangs, initially SMU
Home of the Mustangs, initially SMU
Horrible boss OGRE
Hosp. trauma centers ERS
Hosp. trauma centers ERS
How actors enter ONCUE
Imaginary shell formed by the sky CELESTIALSPHERE
Immature newts EFTS
In the crowd AMIDST
India's first prime minister NEHRU
Indian housemaid AMAH
Intention AIM
Interrogation aid LIEDETECTOR
Interrogation aid LIEDETECTOR
Iranian currency RIAL
Is for two? ARE
Islam's fourth caliph ALI
It may be smoked EEL
It needs a good paddling CANOE
It sends people on trips LSD
It sends people on trips LSD
It'll take you for a ride CAB
It's between Daniel and Joel HOSEA
It's between the South Frigid Zone and South Temperate Zone ANTARCTICCIRCLE
Jai ___ ALAI
Jingles TUNES
Just say no OPPOSE
Kind of butterfly EMPEROR
Kind of butterfly EMPEROR
Kind of terrapin DIAMONDBACK
Kind of terrapin DIAMONDBACK
King Edward's love WALLIS
Knowing when to be silent, e.g. TACT
Lahr or Parks BERT
Lama and llama difference ONEL
Lamb's call BAA
Leaflike plant part BRACT
Legislative product, perhaps ACT
Letters with some flowers FTD
Letters with some flowers FTD
Light bulbs, in the comics IDEAS
Like a haunted house EERIE
Like jambalaya CREOLE
Clues Answers
Like some odds LONG
Like some points MOOT
Like the Astrodome ROOFED
Like the Astrodome ROOFED
Litter member RUNT
Little Rock clock setting CST
London landmark TRAFALGARSQUARE
London's National Gallery is on it TRAFALGARSQUARE
Look down on with disdain SCORN
Low-lying islands CAYS
Low-lying islands CAYS
Major Algerian port ORAN
Make art on glass, in a way ETCH
Make hay TED
Make hay TED
Make one's attendance official, in a way SIGNIN
Make one's attendance official, in a way SIGNIN
Make over REDO
Manipulate fraudulently RIG
March Madness org. NCAA
McEntire of Nashville REBA
Measure using trigonometry TRIANGULATE
Mel's Diner waitress VERA
Miles of film SARAH
Milk containers JUGS
Millionaire of TV JOE
Modicum IOTA
Money held by a third party ESCROW
Monkeys' taboos EVILS
Mormon official ELDER
Morning cup, slangily JAVA
Mr. Kramden RALPH
Muffin type BRAN
Murphy's Law, e.g. AXIOM
Muslim teachers IMAMS
Mysterious Atlantic Ocean locale BERMUDATRIANGLE
Narrow water passage INLET
New York state canal ERIE
News agcy. UPI
Not as tough EASIER
Not as tough EASIER
Not yet final, in law NISI
Noted Christian DIOR
Oater star WAYNE
Old operating room substance ETHER
On the Mediterranean, e.g. ASEA
On ___ (as a gamble) SPEC
One way to make tracks SKI
One-time Italian coin LIRA
Ontario native CREE
P, in Greek RHO
Part of a holiday phrase TREAT
Part of a pump HEEL
Part of AD ANNO
Part of BTU UNIT
Passions ZEALS
Paul Anka's ''___ Beso (That Kiss!)'' ESO
Paul Anka's ''___ Beso (That Kiss!)'' ESO
Pawn taker, sometimes ROOK
Peerage member EARL
Penny CENT
Perfumes ESSENCES
Perfumes ESSENCES
Pianist Dame Myra HESS
Place for a mower SHED
Place for a snake DRAIN
Pledge OATH
Plus additional things ETC
Plus additional things ETC
Polished off EATEN
Pollution-control gp. EPA
Pollution-control gp. EPA
Popular brand at the grocery store GENERIC
Popular brand at the grocery store GENERIC
Prayer ending word AMEN
Primitive weapon SPEAR
Prognosticators SEERS
Proof letters QED
Proof letters QED
Pudding ingredient, perhaps SAGO
Put on the payroll HIRE
Raconteur's offering TALE
Raconteur's offering TALE
Random choice ANY
Record TAPE
Recounted TOLD
Refrain letters EIEIO
Related by blood AKIN
Relinquish office DEMIT
Relinquish, as control YIELD
Remove shoring UNBRACE
Remove shoring UNBRACE
Replacement for 62-Down EURO
Request from one not yet satisfied AGAIN
Request from one not yet satisfied AGAIN
River into the Severn AVON
Rock producer Brian ENO
Rock producer Brian ENO
Role player ACTOR
Roly follower POLY
Royal crown TIARA
Run up, as charges INCUR
Savoir-faire TACT
Sayings of Jesus, e.g. LOGIA
Seasonal debris NEEDLES
Seasonal debris NEEDLES
Seaweed and kelp, e.g. ALGAE
Sends Mr. Smith to Washington? ELECTS
Set on edge UNNERVE
Set, as a goal TARGETED
Sexton and Bancroft ANNES
Shapely leg, in slang GAM
Shapely leg, in slang GAM
Short back muscle LAT
Short life lines? OBIT
Shutterbug's setting FSTOP
Silents actress Normand MABEL
Singer Gormé EYDIE
Singer Gormé EYDIE
Singer Guthrie ARLO
Skin layer DERMA
Slow reptile TURTLE
Small but influential group INNERCIRCLE
Small but influential group INNERCIRCLE
Small, slender nail BRAD
Some bakery loaves RYES
Some dosage units (Abbr.) CCS
Some NYC block separators STS
Some pro baseball players PADRES
Song title spelled out in its lyrics RESPECT
Song title spelled out in its lyrics RESPECT
Source of the Mississippi ITASCA
Space race target MOON
Speedy Chevy, familiarly VETTE
Spelunker hangout CAVE
Spelunker hangout CAVE
Spoof SATIRE
Squirrel away CACHE
Standing ovation, e.g. ECLAT
Steps within a computer program SUBROUTINES
Steps within a computer program SUBROUTINES
Straub's ''___ Story'' GHOST
Straub's ''___ Story'' GHOST
Straw unit BALE
Straw unit BALE
Street for the wealthy? EASY
Stupid end? DEE
Summer treat ICECREAMCONE
Switch-hit, Singapore-style? CANED
Switch-hit, Singapore-style? CANED
Tale with a point FABLE
Tasseled topper FEZ
Telephone CALL
The ''U'' in ICU UNIT
Theater areas LOGES
Therefore ERGO
They can take you downhill quickly SLEDS
They can take you downhill quickly SLEDS
They usually have many extras EPICS
They usually have many extras EPICS
They're certainly not from around here ETS
They're in bone marrow BCELLS
Three hundred, in Roman numerals CCC
Thrift shop objective RESALE
Tierra ___ Fuego DEL
Tierra ___ Fuego DEL
Tills HOES
Tirades RANTS
Title for Arthur Conan Doyle SIR
Title for Arthur Conan Doyle SIR
Took out, in a way DELED
Touch up a beehive? RECOMB
Touch up a beehive? RECOMB
Transistor adjective SOLIDSTATE
Tropical American lizard IGUANA
Troubles or woes ILLS
Troubles or woes ILLS
Turn in RETIRE
Type of edition LATE
Type of party STAG
Type of pepper or powder CHILI
Type of ring that goes with bell-bottoms MOOD
Units of work ERGS
Unprocessed CRUDE
Urgent letters? ASAP
Uriah Heep, by profession CLERK
Variety of beet CHARD
Variety of grass FESCUE
Voice of Daffy Duck BLANC
Voter's cry YEA
Walton portrayer GEER
Warm and comfy TOASTY
Watering hole items BEERS
Wayne Gretzky, early on OILER
Weight charge POUNDAGE
Weight charge POUNDAGE
West African language closely related to Fula SERER
What a stitch in time saves NINE
What a stitch in time saves NINE
Where Kings and Wizards play NBA
Where Kings and Wizards play NBA
Where to draw 24 hrs. a day? ATM
Whiz MAVEN
Wight for one ISLE
Without advantage or disadvantage EVEN
Without clothes BARE
Wooded hollows DELLS
Word with acid or field TEST
Word with all or result END
Word with course or horse RACE
Word with happy or rush HOUR
Word with punching or sleeping BAG
Word with truth or blood SERUM
Words with hole or two INONE
Wrapped up ENDED
Wrapped up ENDED
Writer Bombeck ERMA
Writer Bombeck ERMA
Wynonna's mom NAOMI
Zatopek or Jannings EMIL
Zero of the population NOONE
___ Boothe Luce CLARE
___ de la ... CREME
___ facto IPSO
___ fide (in bad faith) MALA
___ fide (in bad faith) MALA
___ in Charles CAS
___ of Court (English legal societies) INNS
___ of Good Feelings ERA
___ of Good Feelings ERA
___ Stanley Gardner ERLE
___-cone SNO
___-cone SNO