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Hints for Puzzle #71– April 2007 "Unstrung"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that a letter must be omitted from the answer word before it will fit in the grid. Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words. An asterisk * indicates a proper name and a hash mark # a foreign phrase.

Across

  1. Mystery entry (6, 7)
  2. (Clan adopts one French champion) (7)
  3. Look endlessly for the sun, maybe (4)
  4. (Herb carried about a thousand) (6)
  5. (Talk about wood for window framing) (7)
  6. Salinger eats fish (4)
  7. #(Ronald enterprisingly has a way to cook pasta) (2, 5)
  8. *Ronald's tanager, beheaded and roasted (6)
  9. Great regal imbroglio (5)
  10. Lean, topless, and hot to trot (5)
  11. Short throw (3)
  12. (Announces a pressure reversal) (7)
  13. *Operations leader to run airport (5)
  14. (Felt tipsy holding back secretion) (7)
  15. King takes lanthanum to ease the tension (5)
  16. *Harbor town game is announced (5)
  17. Fish locale is reported (6)
  18. (Police officer in division keeps quiet) (9)
  19. Shot every bird (5)
  20. (Huff and puff about period show) (7)
  21. (Lesser tsar shelters revolutionary force) (6)
  22. Mystery entry (5, 7)

Down

  1. Mystery entry (6, 4)
  2. (Small animal's head keeping almost alive in a watery secretion) (6)
  3. Singular bird I released left in a storm (6)
  4. *(The unfinished contest for Balkan land) (6)
  5. *Weld, unsteady, awkwardly drops note (7)
  6. *(Former tree destroyed in Devon Town) (6)
  7. *Jacob's son was here inside (5)
  8. Dream of unbridled praise (6)
  9. (Unraveling a string's measurements) (7)
  10. Lucky Sophie has brought back a bouquet (4)
  11. Not crazy about true rock in Scotland (5)
  12. Latest opinion about bar (5)
  13. (Return to sum up a horse) (5)
  14. Agree they will have to meet (5)
  15. Jumped up and smashed plate (5)
  16. Cry of animal left in defeat (5)
  17. (Starting long, lively cheer for libertine) (6)
  18. (Excited Tiger with a way to sort things out) (6)
  19. Cut tapes up for partitions (5)
  20. Fruit order sounded excellent (6)
  21. Labor longer with fiber (5)
  22. (Miser wickedly daring to hoard $1000) (7)
  23. Mystery entry (12)

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