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Hints for Puzzle #95– April 2009  "Exchange"

Instructions: A raised x before a clue indicates that the answer word exchanges a letter with another answer word. Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. xStart to swill wine for fun (5)
  2. Head of government held in check by rule (5)
  3. Daniel fired, dropping one antelope (5)
  4. *Rex in motel ordered wine (6)
  5. Crap time in prison (7)
  6. Wizened prophet is heard (4)
  7. Studied geography around boundary (4)
  8. xKind of bass or trout (4)
  9. Executive action started in box (7)
  10. *Cheese, in short, isn't finished (4)
  11. Mombassa's beast of burden (3)
  12. Put last of change in plate for one piece of furniture (4)
  13. In Paris, nothing about shilling being up (5)
  14. xTheater has a kind of energy (4)
  15. Steadily inhaling marijuana (3)
  16. Food from dandelions (4)
  17. Celebrated in Costa Rica (4)
  18. Pretend to own a network (4)
  19. Small speck gets zapped (5)
  20. Reportedly a place to go shopping for a hammer (4)
  21. *City in Castile (4)
  22. Opposed to 99 having a geometrical shape (5)
  23. Irish immigrant holding a wedge (4)
  24. Attack a small waterfall (7)
  25. Good Mandarin primarily spoken (5)
  26. xElsie's place is dark at first, then light (5)

Down

  1. Muck led Gus astray (6)
  2. xSign of true competition (5)
  3. Sudden feeling of deep angst (4)
  4. Fastest rusher takes heat (6)
  5. One who trades egg for head of ax in trough (6)
  6. Kingfish under part of ship (4)
  7. Many hors de combat (6)
  8. xSnake finally got cat, perhaps (4)
  9. xTree eventually started to burn (4)
  10. No time to drive for heath (4)
  11. April 13 - Perhaps an unfinished thought finishes at last (4)
  12. Sea horse (4)
  13. Senior's unfinished, unstrung racket (5)
  14. Base runner lacks energy and is not as fresh (6)
  15. "Get ready," Rob said (5)
  16. Film is damaged, exposed at the top, and put in the wrong place (7)
  17. Mom gets cash back for cassava (6)
  18. Truss a goose stuffed with starch (4)
  19. Reckless multitude (4)
  20. Guests to assemble around portico (4)
  21. Strong perfume's color changes to violet finally (7)
  22. Term for "officeholder" is neuter, oddly (6)
  23. xHeedless substitution of 500 for 50 at top of page (4)
  24. Clan to travel about a mile (6)

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