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LA Times, Mon, Jul 29, 2019
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Mark McClain / Ed. Rich Norris
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© 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
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Polio vaccine pioneer
Bacteria in undercooked meat
Blot gently
Budget prefix
Gas in flashtubes
Pitcher's stat
*Music course for budding composers
Animation frame
Mannheim mister
Non-discrimination want-ad letters
Rub out a pencil mark
*Meatless taqueria item
Castilian hero
Gate securer
"Get lost!"
AT&T news channel
Entrepreneur Musk
Tire inflator
*Closet accessory for neckwear
Señora Perón
Washington MLB team
Bath tissue layer
Like contentious discussions
Car music source
Kagan of the Supreme Court
*Marshall Islands site of nuclear testing
The "HD" in HDTV, briefly
"Wayne's World" catchword
Director Kazan
Incubation target
Like the starting team, and a hint to the answers to starred clues
"The Simpsons" bartender
Host onstage
Banded marble
"__ now or never"
Author Dahl
Sandwiches on pita
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Eve's third son
Tooth pain
Dutch South African
Circling the sun, as a planet
Oslo's land: Abbr.
Former inmate
Tabloid figure, for short
Words before whim or hunch
__ Angeles
Newspaper ad, often
Track-and-field competitor in 10 events
Childish rebuttal
Cotton unit
Vote for passage
Uncle Ben's boxful
Fix, as text
Wrist-to-elbow bone
Big spread with cattle, say
Abba of Israel
"Star Wars" heroine
Printer toner containers
Second-chance basket
Shed tears
Pizza parlor appliance
Spanish "nothing"
H.G. Wells race
Fall (over)
"For Pete's __!"
Reaction to pollen, e.g.
"I beg to __": "I don't agree"
Archie Bunker type
Adams with a camera
Hauled
Extra NBA periods
Prefix with sphere meaning "half"
Tall story teller
Whip __ shape
"For __ 3-5": toy box spec
Texter's "I think"
Color TV pioneer
"You're it!" game
