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LA Times, Mon, Sep 14, 2020
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Craig Stowe / Ed. Rich Norris
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© 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
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15x15
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IBM.ATEAM.ADELE
MOBILEAPP.MASON
EVANS..PUT.MONO
SERF.GRAPHPAPER
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SPARERIB..LETUP
IOS.TUNEUPS.IMO
PESTO..DREAMCAR
...SEE..DERAT..
FOCUSGROUP.GASH
OMAN.GOV..EMCEE
NAVAL.AUTOMATES
THEME.CLEAT.ODS
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Old Hollywood sex symbol West
Hooded winter coat
Flinch or gasp, say
Computer giant whose motto is "THINK"
Go-to crew
One-named "Hello" singer
*Smartphone download
Bricklayer
Chris of "The Avengers" (2012)
"... to __ it mildly"
Prefix meaning "one"
Feudal worker
*Sheet for plotting
Variety show
"Delish!"
Barbecued pork snack
Rain more gently
Platform for Siri
*Mr. Lube service jobs
"If you ask me," to a texter
Basil-and-pine-nuts sauce
Ideal wheels
Observe
Rid of vermin
*Sample set of buyers used in market research
Deep cut
Persian Gulf sultanate
Statehouse VIP
Roast host
Part of USNA
Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are
Recurring motif
Soccer shoe gripper
Has too much, briefly
__ Hawkins Day
Learns (of)
Eagle or evil organ
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Performers often "trapped" in imaginary boxes
Overhead
Humiliate
Close friends
Dug in, at dinner
Irish actor Stephen
Phi Beta __
Increase the intensity of
Ewe's beau
Sushi soybean side dish
"The Frog and the Fox" fabulist
Replicate genetically
Barbershop quartet voice
Deduce
Biblical "your"
Expert
Harness strap
Star that's also a source of radio waves
Presidential rejections
Nurse, as a drink
"The Raven" poet
B and B's first B
Game with x's and o's
Thurman of "The Avengers" (1998)
__ favor
Pakistani language
"Not a __ out of you!"
Tidal wave cousin
Igneous rock, once
Omelet ingredient
Roman and Comic Sans
Nebraska city near Boys Town
Gave in
Exterminator's target
Reproductive cell
Like dive bars
"Siddhartha" author
CPR pros
Jeans label
Leaves in hot water?
Rowboat rower
