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Hints for Puzzle #63– August 2006 "Portrait of the Artist"

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 give lengths of answer words. An asterisk * indicates a proper name, a hash mark # a foreign word, and the at sign @ an acronym.

Across

  1. *Northern territory over there including Britain (5)
  2. (Soldier rereading At War) (9)
  3. (Walk slowly and fry right around noon) (7)
  4. Mystery entry (3)
  5. Finally arranging to see his works (4)
  6. Court essentially rated fat (4)
  7. Goal of sailor: having progeny (6)
  8. Start of trouble: mistake leads to panic (6)
  9. Right outside of the body's a tube (5)
  10. Seafarer circles at a great distance (4)
  11. (Await talk on spit) (11)
  12. Note: cavity contains nothing like pitch (8)
  13. #Statement about housing condition in Paris (4)
  14. (Breaking crust true to form) (9)
  15. @Lose time with quest for alien life (4)
  16. Suitable part of chapter (3)
  17. Study shell of crayfish and mollusk (5)
  18. Tablet with note for chaplain (5)
  19. Mystery entry (5)
  20. Motor south carrying trunk (5)
  21. End of old New York subway filth (4)
  22. (Reflecting with Joan about radical band) (9)
  23. *Athenian lawmaker to end all in the near future (5)

Down

  1. The two-grand thief (4)
  2. (Blowing safer hydrogen once more) (6)
  3. *Lively tour around right Cape Cod town (5)
  4. Raise the terminally dead (5)
  5. Money for Spanish King (4)
  6. Fixed with a bristle (4)
  7. *Good-bye, royal Mongolian (5)
  8. Zoroaster's facetious tribute (5)
  9. Given food, keeping it back; it's foul smelling (5)
  10. Errors around union lead to depression (5)
  11. Mystery entry (3)
  12. Ditty about a rabbi's dress (6)
  13. Run in utter disarray for tower (6)
  14. (Gide, père, analyzed descent) (8)
  15. (Stop holding up fifty for effect) (6)
  16. Penny-pincher's timeless title (5)
  17. Poisonous animal in spasm (5)
  18. Headband and ring inside horn (7)
  19. Mom, maybe, split (4)
  20. What you pay a boor speaking Pig Latin (6)
  21. Hear a nobleman reckon (7)
  22. (Charge after a fashion for lead) (8)
  23. Four chinchillas trapping a hedgehog (6)
  24. Mystery entry (4)

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