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Hints for Puzzle #75– August 2007 "Hanoi"

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 capitalized word and a hash mark # a foreign one.

Across

  1. (Geometric figure is inoperative turned around) (6)
  2. (Meat that's been smoked over branches) (8)
  3. (Line from poem about broken tail having many uses) (9)
  4. (Nimble soldier drowned in brew) (5)
  5. Wreck sorted out by end of day (7)
  6. Shout louder when turning wheel (6)
  7. Letter about right beginning to reform a set of rules (7)
  8. Mail service gets truly foul (fowl?) (7)
  9. (Develops reproductive parts with one cell at the end) (6)
  10. (Void a rule about owning a communi-cations device) (5)
  11. Case of elves playing with energy (6)
  12. (This or that one is in outer space) (6)
  13. Curse and mend (4)
  14. *Sea habit protects whale hunter (4)
  15. Bathed and dined with drunkard (7)
  16. Incline to rage (4)
  17. (Weird eel's head found in lake) (5)
  18. Small bobtail? (4)
  19. Barter in exchange for cap (6)
  20. (Put it in sauce for heaviness) (7)
  21. Force and pressure applied to one in debt (5)
  22. (Electron impacts yield weird photon blocker) (6)

Down

  1. (An old measure of distance at around 501 in total) (7)
  2. (Nugatory essay about a way to administer drugs) (7)
  3. Worm gut digested Artemisia vulgaris (7)
  4. *(The look of Spain characterizes a city in New York) (6)
  5. Break out of cooler up there (5)
  6. Pertaining to young Elizabeth, for instance (5)
  7. Speak about large kill (4)
  8. *(Name of maiden is Edna) (6)
  9. City, in moderate reaction at first, is an indicator of change (9)
  10. (Alien boat carrying one assemblage of life) (5)
  11. Place for God to rise and fall before noon (6)
  12. Really gets error removed, for a change (4)
  13. Suppuration has begun a vigorous advance (4)
  14. #Other reasons to hold a man in Berlin (4)
  15. Variety of tasty peach (4)
  16. *Very with-it Latin writer (5)
  17. Sing songs for conductor (6)
  18. Annual party ended ahead of time (6)
  19. Less finished steering mechanism lacks end of rod (5)
  20. (Brother up for a dance movement) (5)
  21. (Fabric piles treated with sulfur) (6)
  22. (Paralyzed friends die horribly) (7)
  23. (False information in dicta of lunatic) (7)

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