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Puzzle #11--April 2002 "April"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to nine letters), then enter them in the grid one after another in the same order as their clues, starting in the upper left corner. Across words that don't end at the right margin continue on the next line below. Down words that don't end at the bottom margin continue in the next column to the right. Eight across words and eight down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those sixteen letters, taken in order, spell a three-word phrase related to the title of this puzzle. In addition, three unclued mystery words are also related to the title of the puzzle. Answers include four proper names, a foreign word, and an acronym. (I am grateful to Kevin Wald for his help in writing the clues.) If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an Adobe Acrobat version of the puzzle and grid. [Want to see some hints?]

Across

  1. Mystery word
  2. Bird free at range
  3. Loud Jack's cry about ship
  4. Put down 100--hurry!
  5. Moved carefully with top of road obliterated
  6. Rivulet refreshed master
  7. Help an opera
  8. Drink from remote aquifer
  9. Precise penalty
  10. Die young; start early
  11. Return floor piece for head piece
  12. Fabled Phrygian is mad, bonkers
  13. Mystery word
  14. Return eager about good music
  15. Sound system of bass on a record
  16. Same reference turned heart of comedian
  17. Talk of proton speed
  18. Open issues include organ
  19. Witch or goddess confined by limits of stress
  20. Bake a tart; use for fill
  21. Well-being of life starting in shrub
  22. Pattern to melt
  23. Mystery word

Down

  1. Lizard soldier turns up with collection
  2. Jewels get no mess straightened out
  3. Same strange tableland
  4. Left-hand opening
  5. Back after time with certain money manager
  6. Appraise; reprove
  7. Bacillus-bearing cheese is illegal inducement
  8. Pouch of wine in your ear
  9. Earth held back by lunar retrogression
  10. Grain turns up around poll fans
  11. Rocketing agency is in on a sale
  12. Doctrine of shelter having ecumenical origin
  13. Hear flying? But this bird doesn't fly
  14. Head of state ran into a North American composer
  15. Fruit with large and small gems
  16. Reserved object error
  17. Chemist to tell about unfinished, ill-fated love
  18. A familiar uncle's eastern equivalent
  19. Natural impulse in keeping children initially within limit
  20. Diabolical destruction of fine plate
  21. Vehicle getting started in travel container
  22. False start ends in disgrace

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