Inner State

Insert one of the US state abbreviations into the words below to solve the numbered clues. None of the state abbreviations begin or end any of the answers. Plenty to go around!
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Original pool

ail amore and bend bluer bough bride burl burn burp cable cane causes chest cord cries dean ease fend flies forest inate miner mule pace parer peed plate rage rein slight tor veer wow yes

AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KY LA ME MA MI MO NE NV NY NC ND OK OR PA RI SC TN UT VA WA
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-1. animal couplers
-2. appease
-3. blacksmith need
-4. bloat
-5. came to a head
-6. chum
-7. cleric
-8. desert plants
-9. district
-10. envelop
-11. facade
-12. first
-13. funeral
-14. large body of troops
-15. late
-16. lunatics
-17. Marie Curie for example
-18. mate
-19. mentor
-20. mistake
-21. modify
-22. nowadays
-23. persist
-24. plunder
-25. proficient
-26. rhomboid
-27. royal digs?
-28. seaman
-29. strain
-30. the sun?
-31. tooth
-32. type of bag
-33. word with war or black
-34. young babes in the old west?
-35. yellow-bellied sap sucker?

17. cheMIst

35. coWArd

1. yOKes

6. fRIend

27. paLAce

Hi Cue, nice puzzle.

8 - ca CT uses

nice puzzle !

That's the way to do it!

Thanks, guys :)

2. placate - Hi Cue

Bernie

33. wIDow

3. aNVil

10. eNClose
25. aDEpt

14. briGAde
28. mARiner

5. peAKed
20. bluNDer

Seven hits! Well done

Joan you need to select from the words in the pool to insert the state abbreviations into. :)

Read the directions, read the directions, read the directions, Joan

22. aNYmore

31. canINe

10. eNCase
25. caPAble

Better?

4. inFLate

11. veNEer

12. foreMOst

Hi Cue.

Perfect!

9. bORough
13. burIAl
19. tUTor
29. burDEn

32. burlap

15. beHInd

16. crAZies

18. parTNer

19. tUTor

21. aMEnd

29. burDEn

You've "stated" your answers with certainty.

23. reMAin

7. deaCOn
26. muSCle
30. sKYlight

Just the two left now. I had a brain-[blip] there on clue #34. Changed it to what it should be.

Looks good!

24. raVAge

34. fILlies

Another nice puzzle bites the dust.

Nice clean up, Remi. Thanks