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Clues Answers
''Cool!'' NEATO
''Funny Girl'' composer STYNE
''Gee whiz!'' HOLYCOW
''Hey, you . . .'' PSST
''No ifs, __ or buts'' ANDS
''Wet your whistle'' stop OASIS
''__ in `easy' '' EAS
68 Down wearer MAHARANEE
African nation MALI
Alphabet start FIRSTLETTER
Ancient mariners NORSE
Annoy persistently HARASS
Arabian monarchy OMAN
Art lover ESTHETE
At a distance AFAR
Be back in busines REOPEN
Beethoven's ''Choral'' work NINTHSYMPHONY
Befitting a young lad BOYISH
Belittle, so to speak DIS
Biblical rest time SEVENTHDAY
Brief roles CAMEOS
But HOWEVER
Butter portion PAT
Ceres' counterpart DEMETER
Chihuahua cheer OLE
China name SPODE
Choose OPTFOR
Civil War general Doubleday ABNER
Clamor NOISE
Colt's mother MARE
Combat areas ARENAS
Comic actress Cheri OTERI
Compass reading NNE
Dark clouds STRATI
Director Reitman IVAN
Disappears gradually EVANESCES
Dostoevsky title character IDIOT
Edgy ANTSY
Emcee HOST
Endorses SIGNS
Erstwhile space station MIR
Exam for colege srs. GRE
Excessive studier NERD
Extra bit of baseball TENTHINNING
Facial features NOSES
First name in cosmetics ESTEE
Former Yugoslavian leader TITO
Gardening tool SPADE
Gas light NEON
German industrial city ESSEN
Ginger's partner RYE
Gives an address ORATES
Greek letters NUS
Greek letters PHIS
Greenhorn ROOKIE
Had in mind MEANT
Hardy heroine TESS
Hatchets AXES
Have __ face (be embarrassed) ARED
Hawaiian goose NENE
Hindu garment SAREE
Hook's underling SMEE
Hot spots SAUNAS
Increase GAIN
Inexpensive ship accommodations THIRDCLASS
Intuitive insight SIXTHSENSE
Island of the Bahamas BIMINI
It's cap. is Sydney NSW
Japanese sash OBI
Karloff or Becker BORIS
Kind of article: Abbr. INDEF
Lab burners ETNAS
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Language ending ESE
Lap dog, for short PEKE
Large ray MANTA
Leaves out OMITS
Letters on a cereal box RDA
Like a __ bricks TONOF
List ender ETAL
Loser to DDE AES
Makes sharp HONES
Medicare org. SSA
Metal-bearing minerals ORES
Metric beginning ECONO
Mexican national holiday FIFTHOFMAY
More bare NUDER
More frigid ICIER
Moslem nymph HOURI
Municipal dept. SANIT
Muscle woe SPASM
Music symbol EIGHTHNOTE
Nail, as a fly SWAT
One in a herd STEER
One on a beat COP
Ooze SEEP
Org. for Els PGA
Out there YON
Pancake topper SYRUP
Pirates' quaffs RUMS
Plated mammal ARMADILLO
Plaything TOY
Precisely accurate SPOTON
Prepare, as skim milk DEFAT
Pro votes YEAS
Q&A part ANS
Reason for overtime TIE
Reckless driver HOTRODDER
Regions' animals FAUNAS
Result of a successful initial printing SECONDEDITION
RR stop STA
Runway adjuncts APRONS
Safe place HAVEN
Sammy Cahn's specialty LYRICS
Scale notes RES
School grp. PTA
Set, as a trap BAITED
Seth's son ENOS
Shaky motion TREMOR
Sherwood, for one FOREST
Showed again, as a film RERAN
Singer Guthrie ARLO
Singer Shore DINAH
Sovereign RULER
Spread apart, as feet SPLAY
Successful hitter's asset GOODEYE
Suffix for ball or bass OON
Surefooted animals ASSES
Suvari of ''American Beauty'' MENA
That girl SHE
They're pledged at weddings TROTHS
Three, in Rome TRE
Transmission position FOURTHGEAR
Treat with milk OREO
TV doctor Welby MARCUS
Units of force DYNES
Very long times EONS
Vessels with ears EWERS
Wendy's dog NANA
Wise __ owl ASAN
With curls WAVY
Without stopping TONOEND
Word form for ''one billionth'' NANO
Word ignored by alphabetizers THE
__ a customer ONETO