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Hints for Puzzle #87– August 2008  "Hell's Angels"

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. An asterisk * indicates a capitalized word, and a hash mark # a foreign word,

Across

  1. *Mystery entry (7)
    2. (Almost time to join the French church) (6)
  2. (Strike out with Georgia and a representative) (8)
  3. Freight acquires mass after removal of last of bad soil (4)
  4. Unrestrictedly spread, ravage, or raven (7)
  5. Acquire fashionable mutt (5)
  6. Chanteuse has to pay (4)
  7. Runner swallows dose, getting weaker (6)
  8. (Skillful auditor messed up leaving unit out) (6)
  9. Harry marks time (6)
  10. *Mystery entry (9)
  11. (Dad abandons partial botched attempt) (5)
  12. (Ogled fish turning crimson) (6)
  13. (Dish made with a melange of hulled grains) (8)
  14. Film female alien (5)
  15. Undecided about getting chilled (4)
  16. Strong odor makes city trying at first (7)
  17. (Opening day matinee madness) (8)
  18. Reason union is involved in lawsuit (5)
  19. Paint a person holding a candle (5)
  20. *Mystery entry (6)

Down

  1. Animal spirits the Spanish turned back (5)
  2. An instant of electric excitement (5)
  3. *Royal family's odd tour around Land's End (5)
  4. *(Old inhabitant of Italy in base squalor) (6)
  5. Last of team master's staff (4)
  6. (Flagged a vehicle headed west around bypass) (5)
  7. Bad deal is a burden (4)
  8. A lot of money left in jumble (4)
  9. Story doesn't include Victor or Carol (4)
  10. Entertain the Navajo people (4)
  11. Ailing lifter needs energy to be productive (7)
  12. (Allow about nine to start getting advanced) (4)
  13. Lament finish of water bird (6)
  14. Glaze steaks with relish (4)
  15. #(Mexican's love of Metamorphosis) (4)
  16. (Speak haltingly and start to mumble in unsteady stream) (7)
  17. *Male feline accompanies Earth goddess (6)
  18. *One in black flipped over Tantalus's daughter (5)
  19. Label in railway gets protective coating (6)
  20. Brighten sick uncle and me (6)
  21. Call for tot to get 60% of money (6)
  22. Teed off about degree discussion (6)
  23. Note pilot's comfort (6)
  24. (Small instrument, but loud) (8)

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