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Clues Answers
''It's done!'' THERE
A single time ONCE
Alias preceder AKA
All square TIED
Asked earnestly PLED
Bailiwicks AREAS
Brief period SPELL
Buckeye State OHIO
Bunch of buddies GANG
Carpet surface PILE
Castaway's home ISLE
Caviar source ROE
Certain Creole speaker HAITIAN
Cherished DEAR
Chilean range ANDES
Civil rights org NAACP
Clairvoyance, for short ESP
Costa __ RICA
Cymbal cousin GONG
Defeats by a whisker EDGES
Don't play fair CHEAT
Elegance CLASS
Exchange vows WED
Female lobster HEN
Filled with frills LACY
Game of strategy CHESS
Gladden ELATE
Hale and hearty SOUNDASABELL
Hale and hearty FITASAFIDDLE
Hale and hearty HEALTHYASAHORSE
Harmony, for short SYNC
In pursuit of AFTER
In __ of (instead of) LIEU
Ironically funny WRY
Irritated state SNIT
Most visibly embarrassed REDDEST
Mountain sound ECHO
Movie trailer, e.g TEASER
Not as friendly ICIER
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Nothing NIL
Office plant FERN
On pins and needles TENSE
Oolong, for one TEA
Orthodontist's deg DDS
Oscars and Tonys AWARDS
Otherwise ELSE
Parasol's offering SHADE
Part of TGIF ITS
Part of the eye IRIS
Part of UAE ARAB
Pepsi rival COKE
Peter Pan alternative JIF
Place for tools SHED
Poker variety DRAW
Pollution standards org EPA
Pre-euro Italian money LIRA
Pub quaff ALE
Pull apart TEAR
Ranch rope LASSO
Santa's helper ELF
Scandinavian capital OSLO
Send off SHIP
Set fire to LIT
Shocked look GAPE
Show displeasure HISS
Singing without instruments ACAPPELLA
Sprightly dances JIGS
Steep rock CRAG
Synagogue scroll TORAH
Tarnish SOIL
Threesome TRIO
Throw in ADD
Under the weather ILL
What snobs put on AIRS
Word of welcome HELLO
Works like ''Messiah'' ORATORIOS
World Series mo OCT
Wraps things up ENDS