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Hints for Puzzle #83– April 2008  "Food Chain"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that only the first letter of the answer word should be entered in the grid. Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. (Insect feeding initiated complaint) (4)
  2. Truth about sexual activity (3)
  3. Battered red pot held aslant (6)
  4. George initially out of money for rent (4)
  5. Changing Rialto fashion (6)
  6. Duke takes king's place in secure urban district (4)
  7. (Finish one year with sweetie pie) (5)
  8. Rage held back in pregnancy (5)
  9. Start to eat the Spanish fish (3)
  10. Clean 500 for Nixon's head in miniature (4)
  11. Kevin's ideal is keeping private (6)
  12. Food for bon vivant, maybe (5)
  13. (Lunatic eating nothing but yuca) (6)
  14. *Salinger character lives in one's memory (4)
  15. Rap about author's propriety of behavior (7)
  16. Division of land without resistance (6)
  17. Fruit looks about right (6)
  18. (Crazy to hit back) (4)
  19. Small rate and volume (5)
  20. Crust formed around one kind of tree (6)
  21. Foolish to get up for one spot (5)
  22. Vile Sue plays hard-to-get (7)
  23. (Homeric epic about grass) (4)
  24. Form in plaster (4)
  25. Make-believe priest deceitfully enters error (8)
  26. Run away from crowds in succession (6)
  27. Eight from company left before holiday (5)
  28. (Flavor small pastry with bit of clove) (5)

Down

  1. Born dumb, forgets identity of organisms (6)
  2. Greasy cooking has me heading off for a source of water (6)
  3. (Surf is humming with swimmers) (4)
  4. Distress voiced about royal split (7)
  5. Fight ended with sorrow, in fact (5)
  6. Bum a ride before line is put off track (6)
  7. Stone tossed at bird (5)
  8. (Fancy a meal with root vegetable) (3)
  9. Ecstasy gets you finally for a break (7)
  10. God's face (3)
  11. Stir, simmer, add last of spice, and put in water (7)
  12. Goes in cleaned up and polished (6)
  13. (Company nurse with old hat) (4)
  14. It's our unhappy plaintiff (6)
  15. School work diminishes, by report (7)
  16. Winner making one error in course (6)
  17. *I Musici's radio host (4)
  18. (Our group flipped over fish, dear) (5)
  19. Regret never having returned to sign up (5)
  20. *Find bliss in credence (4)
  21. Super sick, died contracted (6)
  22. The editor has to listen (4)
  23. Start to tell everything? Not very likely (4)
  24. (For example, girls superficially get urges) (4)
  25. Mystery writer eats bun in tram (7)
  26. City girl's style (5)

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