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Clues Answers
''A Confederacy of Dunces'' author TOOLE
''Beetle Bailey'' dog OTTO
''Buenos Aires'' musical EVITA
''C'mon, __ pal'' BEA
''Camelot'' composer LOEWE
''Fine'' group ARTS
''Gloria __'' (hymn) PATRI
''Kon-Tiki'' material BALSA
''Laughing'' beast HYENA
''Some Like It Hot'' star LEMMON
''The Untouchables'' villain NITTI
Accountant, often ADDER
Actor Neeson LIAM
Actress Lotte LENYA
Acts of kindness MERCIES
Adolescent TEEN
Angry with SOREAT
Apply, as paint LAYON
Armour rival HORMEL
Audibly shocked AGASP
B alias CFLAT
Bake-sale sponsors PTAS
Barbershop sound SNIP
Became anxious TENSED
Biblical twin ESAU
Big wheel CHIEF
Blues street of Memphis BEALE
Bounds' partners LEAPS
Bremen's river WESER
Bump's place ONALOG
Bunch of bovines HERD
Bunch of quail BEVY
Capt.'s subordinate LIEUT
Cell-phone downloads RINGTONES
Cheat at cards? PALMAROUND
Choral voice ALTO
Christmas poem opening TWAS
City on the Colorado YUMA
Come to the surface EMERGE
Counterfeit coin SLUG
Course for US immigrants ESL
Crow call CAW
Cup edge RIM
Dairy training? SKIMLESSON
Declines TAPERSOFF
Declines EBBS
Difficult obligation ONUS
Don of talk radio IMUS
Dress designer's concern? SEAMLEVEL
Engender BREED
Entered on a keyboard TYPEDIN
Everything, so to speak ITALL
Fast-spreading, on the Web VIRAL
Fitness facilities SPAS
Flood protector LEVEE
Food package abbr NETWT
Frat letter ZETA
French spa EVIAN
French waters EAUX
Fuddy-duddy GEEZER
Furniture deliverer TRUCK
Furthermore ALSO
Garson of ''Mrs. Miniver'' GREER
Give it __ (go for it) ATRY
Glasgow girl LASS
Go to great heights SOAR
Goes wrong ERRS
Golf-bag contents IRONS
Grad ALUM
Grumbles quietly MUTTERS
Harrison's ''Raiders . . .'' costar KAREN
Clues Answers
Hebrew letter ALEPH
Ill-gotten gains PELF
Impede DETER
In front AHEAD
Info DOPE
It means ''nerve'' NEURO
Item on a program AGENDUM
Jazz singer Sarah VAUGHAN
Keyboard key SHIFT
Kin of calypso SKA
Largest African antelope ELAND
Lavish meal FEAST
Light brown BEIGE
Like many wine barrels OAKEN
Like some jokes STALE
Like vegetable-stand wares? FARMFETCHED
Lone Star sch UTEP
Making an entrance GOINGIN
Markdown event SALE
Martial arts levels DANS
McDonald's founder RAYKROC
Meteorological tool RADAR
Neighbor of Mont IDA
NY engineering school RPI
Omega alternative ROLEX
Oodles AHEAP
Oracular signs OMENS
Piped up SPOKE
Ploy RUSE
Poetic Muse ERATO
Post-office stamp AIRMAIL
Ppd. enclosures SASES
Prefix for ''trillion'' TERA
Quite VERY
Reach across SPAN
Result of a high-school dance dispute? PROMWRESTLING
Ritzy POSH
Rounds of applause SALVOS
RSVP part PLAIT
Sandwich breads RYES
Satisfied sounds AAHS
Sean of ''Lord of the Rings'' films ASTIN
Shakespearean monarch LEAR
Shelter org ASPCA
Shorts supports HIPS
Show no modesty BOAST
Snow White's sister ROSERED
Soup flavoring ONION
Specialization NICHE
Steamed IRATE
Sugar source BEETS
Swat-team gear GASMASK
Swimming workout units LAPS
Switch ender EROO
Taj Majal locale AGRA
Technical-support remedy? SPAMTREATMENT
They may be counted NOSES
They're found in showers METEORS
Tiny amounts IOTAS
To be, in Brittany ETRE
Tournament round SEMIS
Trade grps ASSNS
Trike rider TOT
Triple-decker treat OREO
Uniform laundry, locker-room lunch, etc.? TEAMSERVICE
Wagnerian title role TRISTAN
Wistful exclamation OHGEE
Write music and lyrics? FORMASONG
Yorkshire city LEEDS
__ Selassie (Ethiopian emperor) HAILE
__-Saxon ANGLO