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Clue Answer
MILES AWAY AFAR
Partner of “ceases” DESISTS
FISHING NET TRAWL
Crooner Mel who was called “The Velvet Fog” TORME
Mindfulness-based practice ZEN
Belligerent, in British slang AGGRO
MALE ADMIRER BEAU
Largest Chinese ethnic group HAN
Hank Aaron holds the M.L.B. record for these, for short (2,297) RBIS
SPLEEN IRE
Chocolate confection with a molten core LAVACAKE
Middle of a classic boast from Caesar ISAW
Common sight along the Norwegian coast FJORD
NOBELIST WIESEL ELIE
B-baller in California LALAKER
Mail inits. since 1971 USPS
Army squad leaders: Abbr. SSGTS
“Toy Story” boy ANDY
LETTUCE OR CABBAGE MOOLA
“___ Maria” AVE
BOTTOM OF A BOAT KEEL
SMALL SONGBIRD TIT
Shakespeare’s “___ of Athens” TIMON
SPANISH GIRLFRIEND AMIGA
UNIMPORTANT THINGS TRIFLES
Presided over a roast, say EMCEED
N.H.L. team with a mythological eponym KRAKEN
Effect of secondhand pot smoke CONTACTHIGH
Made an irreverently sarcastic comment SNARKED
Winter item on a car’s roof rack SKI
Signature Obama achievement, in brief ACA
Dunkable edible DONUT
Swiss founder of analytical psychology CARLJUNG
SMALL RECESS NOOK
12/24 OR 12/31 EVE
Like “three men” of nursery rhyme INATUB
Flight of fancy WILDIDEA
Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection “Exhalation” CHIANG
Member of a powerful ruling elite OLIGARCH
Courtier who oversees Hamlet’s duel with Laertes OSRIC
EVENING PARTY SOIREE
“Phooey!” NERTS
Patch things up, say? SEW
One of Islam’s Five Pillars HAJ
Remove the fastenings from UNBIND
“___ takers?” ANY
___-Carlton (hotel chain) RITZ
Evidence of a day at the beach BIKINITAN
?Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it”: Richard Feynman SEX
Hero of Narnia in C. S. Lewis novels ASLAN
“Well, lah-di-___” DAH
Held on (to) CLUNG
Cop-turned-vigilante in a postapocalyptic film MADMAX
Funereal compositions DIRGES
DEGRADE ABASE
MAKE A MISTAKE ERR
DRILL (INTO) BORE
German “Geez!” ACH
TIKI BAR DRINK MAITAI
Inits. before a nickname AKA
Tools for fireplaces POKERS
Uber-fan STAN
Big name in pharmacies CVS
Part of a decent-sized plot ACRE
ALTIMA MAKER NISSAN
Where it’s at VENUE
Description of 17-, 25-, 36- and 49-Across, in different senses? HALFBAKED
Cleric’s title, for short REV
CHIP IN ADD
Upper part of a Vandyke beard, informally STACHE
LETHAL DEADLY
“Given the way things appear ?” ASITIS
Rudely “welcome” the away team JEER
Afghan’s place ASIA
SMIDGEN IOTA
IN A DEADPAN MANNER DRILY