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