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Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 78 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

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'Bolero' composer
'If you ___' (words of deference)
'Life is hard ...'
'Step aside, I'll do it'
'Thin' coin
Author Roald
Auto
Bird-related
Bush's alma mater
Carillon part
Colored
Come into view
Cuba, e.g.
Delinquent G.I.
Den
Differentiate
Dove houses
Drunken
Duke, earl, etc.
Elizabeth I was the last one
Emergency situation
Englishman in colonial India
Excellence
Exploding star
File folder feature
Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf ___'
Signs, as a check
Somerset Maugham novel, with 'The'
Spanish grocery
Take a walk
Three, in cards
Triplet plus one
Unexciting
What's harvested
Where Pearl Harbor is
With mouth wide open
Worked up
Your and my
Zuider ___
___ Alamos, N.M.
___ Antony
___ Maria liqueur
___ Minor (constellation)
Filmmaker Woody
Flat part of a chart line
Formally renounce
Fuel additive
Game show host Pat
Have ___ to one's head
Isn't solvent
Joke
Lad
Language of Pakistan
Like a lime
Like some gravy and mattresses
Lock location
Lock opener
Manipulative one
Maze runner
Mideast's Gulf of ___
Midleg
Modest people have small ones
Most Yugoslavs
Muckety-muck
Native Alaskan
Nonsense
Occasions
Opposing
Out of sight of shore
Pair
Polio vaccine developer
Popular cookbook author
Possible result of 40-Down nonpayment
Preceding day
Present a case in court
Red suit
Remote control abbr.