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Special Puzzle - "Looking High and Low"  by Arthur Schless

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to ten letters and include three proper names), 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, and down words that don't end at the bottom margin continue in the next column. Seven across words and eight down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those fifteen letters, taken in order, spell a two-word phrase related to the three mystery entries. (If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an Adobe Acrobat version of the puzzle and grid).

Across

  1. Extraordinary note: mixed up cur has a mixed up soul
  2. For example, amount of protein is same as urea content
  3. Communist has influence taken away
  4. Ten in race munched fruit
  5. Hesse's ire confounded some well-to-do ladies
  6. Felon backtracks to get ready for surgery
  7. Greek girl wandering in front half of acropolis
  8. Look around Wal-Mart, front and back, for decorative metal
  9. Remain blackened
  10. Mystery entry
  11. Show up again without fruit to gather
  12. Vessel has smooth interior
  13. Travel west to find a new identity
  14. Turning, strips for a nap
  15. Rigid shoes that indent flat feet initially
  16. Get rid of squeaky footwear
  17. Clean and rearrange most of study
  18. Bird seen twice in northeast
  19. Screen portrays wild life with Teddy
  20. Mongrel has long coiled hair
  21. Result of golf misplay makes void about tee
  22. Hardwood implement has head knocked off
  23. Sculptor feeding egg to author

Down

  1. Mystery entry
  2. Fool-hardy spots
  3. Soil-scattered lane
  4. In review I agree enclosed freight cars overcrowd
  5. Ace low as they say in casino area
  6. Agreement to reshape cruet
  7. Wire taxi to meet returning train
  8. Leave parted anew
  9. Make yarn using pins
  10. Foreign currency is invested in neurobiology
  11. Vice as entertainment has to stop
  12. Energy that comes and goes
  13. Buff comb
  14. Revise part of fireworks
  15. Short feat will awe
  16. Almost senile, disturbed pronunciation of a consonant that isn't aspirated
  17. Elastic filament is inside, more laterally
  18. Low new satellite
  19. French candy is tantalizingly near lip
  20. Velour shaped for special window
  21. Short street full of turmoil
  22. Spoonful of medicine upsets does
  23. Cut share into pieces
  24. Sounds like a company to support
  25. Mystery entry

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