| Clues | Answers |
| “Deck the Halls” verb | DON |
| “New” prefix | NEO |
| A guttural laugh? | ALOHA |
| Across-the-pond airer | BBC |
| Affirmative reply | YES |
| Antifreeze predecessor | METHANOL |
| Arctic digs? | IGLOO |
| Beat everyone | WIN |
| Buck lovers | DOES |
| Cheek application | BLUSH |
| Coal mover | BIN |
| Communion plates | PATENS |
| Crane part | HOIST |
| Deli sandwich | BLT |
| Dim going back? | MID |
| Disturbance of the normal position | DISLOCATION |
| Driver for hire | CABBY |
| Every ___ king | MANA |
| Exit | EGRESS |
| Extreme evictions | BANISHMENTS |
| Fen-ish | MARSHY |
| Fertilizer from bats | GUANO |
| Financial portfolio part | IRA |
| Floral necklace | LEI |
| Floyd and Cleavon | LITTLES |
| Fourth qtr. month | OCT |
| Future mushroom | SPORE |
| Genius? Not even close | IDIOT |
| Greek war god | ARES |
| Greyhound loading site | DEPOT |
| Handgun sheath | HOLSTER |
| Handy symbol of hard work? | CALLUS |
| Harbor bouncers | BUOYS |
| Heavyweight legend | ALI |
| Huge domed rooms | ROTUNDAS |
| Like Pegasus | ALAR |
| Little software program? | APPLET |
| Male Fed | GMAN |
| Mary of “The Maltese Falcon” | ASTOR |
| Mountaintop dwelling | AERIE |
| Move sneakily | TIPTOE |
| Moviegoers follow it | PLOT |
| Muse playing a lyre | ERATO |
| Oboe ancestor | SHAWM |
| One way you can say that? | AGAIN |
| Outlawed pitch | SPITTER |
| Palms yielding starches | SAGOS |
| Picture in one’s mind | IDEATE |
| Plea to the Coast Guard | SOS |
| Quick cut | SNIP |
| Quick on one’s feet | AGILE |
| Relatives of 33-Down | DOPES |
| Ringlike islands | ATOLLS |
| Rope-making fiber | HEMP |
| Scald and cool vegetables | BLANCH |
| Signals with a thumbs-up | OKAYS |
| Simon Legree and his ilk | SADISTS |
| Single-masted crafts | SLOOPS |
| Softest solid | TALC |
| Some surgeries | TRANSPLANTS |
| State neighboring Fla | ALA |
| Strike hard, centuries ago | SMITE |
| Suffix with “professional” | ISM |
| The forcing from a fixed position | DISLODGMENT |
| Third monastic hour | TERCE |
| This puzzle’s topic | REMOVAL |
| Throw in | ADD |
| Tips for salespeople | LEADS |
| Tokyo, once | EDO |
| Tolkien monster | ORC |
| Tough thing to crack | NUT |
| Vindictively tart-tongued | CATTY |
| Vino region | ASTI |
| Washrooms, for short | LAVS |
| Wife of Saturn | OPS |
| ___ out a living | EKES |
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