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Hints for Puzzle #107– April 2010  "Bull"

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 indicate lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. (Flash! Shot at home) (8)
  2. Carry about two gees for mendicant (6)
  3. (Hog getting everything turned over and beginning to eat waste) (7)
  4. Dispatched before now (7)
  5. *I rather fancy Tubman (7)
  6. Ray takes off (5)
  7. Eat a pastry with appetizers (5)
  8. Draft a play (5)
  9. More testing delimits network (4)
  10. Grain of royal diamonds (4)
  11. (Call about fried eel and vegetable) (6)
  12. *Wise Tony packs a jacket (4)
  13. *Welcome back, Ms Le Gallienne (3)
  14. Republican in court is confident (4)
  15. Ancient township's judge called (4)
  16. Carrot and stick (4)
  17. Demimonde harbors backward ape (4)
  18. (Inventive girls, having time and energy, can make tissue) (7)
  19. Take a set with facility (4)
  20. Money to keep fit baffled bullhead, say (7)
  21. (Observed around end of hour beginning to emerge untroubled) (6)
  22. A range of illegitimate votes (5)
  23. (Mild bit of pepper in food sent back) (5)
  24. (Naughty child learning to beg) (7)

Down

  1. (Brother behind some very important people) (5)
  2. Upset several not having a party (6)
  3. You heard about an Egyptian spirit I have found in Greece (6)
  4. Trouble comes from losing head in fright (4)
  5. Man with record is an employee (4)
  6. (Makes an egregious error giving one with the same label as another) (8)
  7. Clues turned up about large rift (5)
  8. (Trademark covers bi-metal mineral powder) (6)
  9. Marie loves keeping a gazelle (5)
  10. (At that point they're on speaking terms) (5)
  11. Stand-in player is even (4)
  12. Expatiate in elaborate detail (6)
  13. *The fellows in the Arabian Republic (5)
  14. Angry about no-good thankless one (7)
  15. *Last month, in Washington, everything started with coal (8)
  16. Dick and papa cut up tree (5)
  17. (One island passage) (5)
  18. (Gutless, prosaic, wandering vagabond) (6)
  19. Right time to hold up a glove (4)
  20. Go back with note for bad guy (4)
  21. Mentioned symptoms and functions (5)
  22. Contrive initially to avoid remembering (6)
  23. (Pet device is out of whack and misleading) (9)

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