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Clues Answers
''According to Jim'' star BELUSHI
''Battlestar Galactica'' captain OLMOS
''Shoot!'' ASKAWAY
''Shopgirl'' author Martin STEVE
''Simpsons'' toon cat SCRATCHY
''Superman Returns'' character OLSEN
''That's what you think!'' ASIF
''The King'' ELVIS
''The Thinker'', e.g. NUDE
'36 Olympics star OWENS
1945 Peace Nobelist CORDELLHULL
20th-century pope STPIUS
Absorbed a loss ATEIT
Acknowledging applause TAKINGABOW
Allocated time SLOT
American Theatre Wing award TONY
Arbor Day month APRIL
Arrow poison CURARE
Bath sponges LOOFAHS
Because of DUETO
Beginning ASOF
Besides ALSO
Best-quality FINE
Blissful spot EDEN
Blood-bank inventory SERA
British pianist HESS
Butter alternatives OLEOS
Canal components LOCKS
Capone catcher NESS
Certain racer HURDLER
Cologne's river RHINE
Compass reading ESE
Continental divider URALS
Crimson rivals YALIES
Crystal-center rock GEODE
Discerning WISE
Discerning ASTUTE
Don't continue STOP
Eating schedule DIET
Emphatic assent YESSIREE
Enticement BAIT
Erstwhile anesthetics ETHERS
First English colony in America ROANOKE
Fit for a pharaoh OPULENT
Fleecy flock EWES
Ft. Myers clock setting EST
Gear tooth COG
German surrealist ERNST
GI offense AWOL
Give the boot to OUST
High praise GLORY
Hit the hay SLEEP
Ill-mannered boors LOUTS
In a germane manner APTLY
Informal greetings YOOHOOS
Intimidate AWE
Intolerant one BIGOT
Iterate ECHO
Jerry Maguire portrayer TOMCRUISE
Jim Lehrer, for instance ANCHORMAN
Joliet discovery of 1669 ERIE
Keyboarded TYPED
Keystone player KOP
Lasting impression SCAR
Leatherneck org. USMC
Lessor's sign TOLET
Like ALA
Like some sweaters CREWNECKED
List ender ETC
Live and breathe ARE
Long-legged bird IBIS
M.Sgts., for example NCOS
Clues Answers
Make preparations PLAN
Makes wait, perhaps PUTSONHOLD
Michener novel IBERIA
Molasses product RUM
Mongoose prey COBRA
More problematical DICIER
National Leaguer ASTRO
New Hampshire city KEENE
Not much ABIT
Not objective SLANTED
Nothing but ALL
Nowhere near correct ALLWET
Office message MEMO
Old-time exclamation EGAD
One more than ''zwei'' DREI
Onto, with ''of'' AWARE
Orb accentuators EYELINERS
Oversized spoon LADLE
Part of 44 Across STD
Pays tribute to HONORS
Peace goddess IRENE
Performed with distinction SHONE
Phi follower CHI
Pilot's announcement ETA
Pizzeria fixture OVEN
Positive particles CATIONS
Pre-publication creation GALLEYPROOFS
Pre-statehood status: Abbr. TERR
Quaint collectible CURIO
Radiator adjunct FANBELT
Rap artist/producer DRDRE
Religious offshoot SECT
Second-qual. IRR
Senator Specter ARLEN
Similar AKIN
Singer Sedaka NEIL
Skim milk's lack FAT
Slalom paths ESSES
Sloth or envy SIN
Snug retreat NEST
Soapmaking ingredient POTASH
Sort of seabird AUK
Sort of seabird TERN
Soup thickener AGAR
Space-bar neighbor ALT
Speck in the ocean ISLET
Spotted SEEN
Spruce (up) SPIFF
States UTTERS
Temporary stitch BASTE
Test for college srs. GRE
They're renewed at reunions FRIENDSHIPS
This: Sp. ESTO
Took the wheel DROVE
Toy with a tail KITE
Trojan prince HECTOR
Trooper's quarry SPEEDER
Try to find SEEK
TV rooms DENS
Uncommunicative one CLAM
Very EVERSO
VII x VIII LVI
Violin virtuoso ISAACSTERN
Wandered around GADDED
Was under the weather AILED
Well and good NICE
Wide belt SASH
Wish one __ (feel regret) HADNT
Wows with humor SLAYS
Yeltsin successor PUTIN
Yuletide tune DECKTHEHALLS
Zilch NONE