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Clues Answers
''Downton Abbey's'' paterfamilias, for one EARL
''Our Town'' bride WEBB
''Simplify, simplify'' source THOREAU
''Tosca'' extra ROMAN
2013 Super Bowl advertiser ETRADE
Bane in Joni Mitchell's ''Big Yellow Taxi'' DDT
Bank deposits LEVEES
Became visible, maybe NEARED
Best Director Oscar winner five years after Kevin MEL
Beyoncé started wearing it in 2013 PIXIECUT
Bouillabaisse flavorer ANISETTE
Bouquet complement, maybe DOZEN
Burning issue ASH
Catch on TAKEHOLD
Chemist with 350 patents NOBEL
Club bread DUES
Common allergen LATEX
Cool once more RETRO
Cordon Bleu topping? TOQUE
Decimate CHEWUP
Descriptor of Scarlett O'Hara LANDPOOR
Evidence of a kiln mishap SHARD
Feature ELEMENT
Firebrand ZEALOT
Fist-bump accompaniment ATTABOY
Gatsby-era accessory BOA
Greek equivalent of ''mores'' ETHOS
Hangout in ''Raging Bull'' THECOPA
High __ SEAS
Hitherto SOFAR
It's lifted by cheerleaders MORALE
Its flag depicts the Blue Marble EARTHDAY
Juan Carlos made him a Marquis DALI
Ladybug prey APHID
Letters by the pound OPER
Logs, sometimes TYPESIN
Clues Answers
Mardi Gras party REVELER
More than important FOCAL
Mugger's cliché HIMOM
Musical that quotes ''Casey at the Bat'' CABARET
Open AMENABLE
Orbs PEEPERS
Original Crayola pack, e.g OCTET
Pair in a prescription? RANDR
Port authority's pejorative GRAPY
Potter trademark SPECS
Presses ENTREATS
Prompt for a moment of silence ENDASH
Pulitzer novel of 1925 SOBIG
Render unremarkable ECLIPSE
Run for SEEK
Scene of 1948 partitioning KOREA
Seiko Group company EPSON
Sew up ICE
Shape of Michigan's Lower Peninsula MITTEN
Shortening in cookie recipes TBSP
Sponge LEECH
Sport cut from the Summer Olympics after 1936 POLO
Stage-set mover WINCH
Strains to wrap things up CODAS
Strip-mall window placard TOLEASE
Summer-weight fabric MADRAS
Talk foolishly DROOL
Tony UPSCALE
Toteboard milieu TELETHON
Tower's client REPOMAN
Vein ILK
Venerable pyramid game QBERT
Where a clasp may rest NAPE
Wow AWE
Yale sobriquet OLDELI
__-high ACE