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crossword answers
Clue Answer
Focus of the U.S.A.F.’s Project Blue Book (1952-1969) UFOS
*Begin BEEFEATER
Stole from a burlesque act BOA
HANKERINGS YENS
First part of a triple jump HOP
Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments PRIVACY
LONG HAULS TREKS
DISCOMBOBULATED ATSEA
Staple of Trinidadian music STEELDRUM
PUCKISH SORT ELF
Chevy truck since 1998 SILVERADO
___ WHITE EGG
*Depot DUTCHOVEN
Put on a big smile LITUP
*Emirate MADASHELL
UNDERWAY AFOOT
Lose one’s shirt, say STRIP
Migration pattern? VEE
“Yikes!” EEK
SEE 31-DOWN DRAFT
Doesn’t stay tight SAGS
They’re typically older than seniors GRADS
Rich sources of beta carotene KALES
Kelly of morning talk RIPA
If-then-___ (programming construct) ELSE
SURPASS TOP
___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal) RIA
___ VALLEY NAPA
Things one might pick up while entering a room VIBES
SCORES LANDS
Coup planners CABAL
APPLY TO USEON
Anathema to an aesthete POORTASTE
One in it for the long haul LIFER
One of millions in New Zealand EWE
Plein-air prop EASEL
PRACTICAL JOKE JAPE
MEANT TO BE FATED
COPACETIC JAKE
Hot topping for a cone? LAVA
STEAMY STUFF VAPOR
Most-grown coffee bean in the world ARABICA
What some people are dyeing to be? REDHEADS
Going by, in brief AKA
CAME TO PASS AROSE
Pre-med pre-req BIO
“Time ___ ?” WAS
LAUNCHES AN ATTACK MAKESWAR
BON ___ AMI
Big star, in Spain SOL
Actor Woo-shik of “Parasite” CHOI
EXEMPLAR OF NEATNESS PIN
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g. DUO
___ FLY SAC
It’s never out of tune AIRGUITAR
Asian dog breed AKITA
TRICKY BILLIARD SHOT MASSE
With 50-Down, annual June sports event NBA
NOT TOO MUCH ALITTLE
CHURCH OFFERING TITHE
Singer Williams who founded the Temptations OTIS
WAY OFF AFAR
*Ensign NOPARKING
Issuance from an American embassy, in brief USVISA
CEREMONY POMP
Ensconced in AMID
*Arbiter RATTLER
“And so ?” ERGO
Bibliographer’s abbr. ETAL
TIME TO REMEMBER ERA
Figure in I Samuel ELI
Ensiform, adj.: Shaped like a ___ SWORD
SPLIT UP APART
CUT DOWN SLAIN
2024 Olympics site PARIS
JOINT DOOBIE
BARELY DEFEATED EDGED
Nonreflective, in a way MATTE