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Puzzle #3--August 2001: "August"

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. Seven across words and seven down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those fourteen letters, taken in order, spell a two-word phrase related to the title of this puzzle. Answers include two proper names. [Want to see some hints?]

Across

  1. Blast a place in Georgia that puts gold first
  2. Tending to express error; reason for action
  3. Hound returns cheer to donkey
  4. Here and now
  5. Brew potion of choice
  6. Spread of most rewrites
  7. Provoke pointer
  8. Listen with, compete for, more weight
  9. Imagine! I go out with egghead
  10. Part of hammerhead bound by rope ends
  11. O, Nelly, sorely solitary
  12. Wandering, go astray with colony member
  13. Bar entry, having fetched
  14. Endlessly gnash bare teeth
  15. Undergarment of embrace?
  16. Star of Avon returns
  17. Grand opening for high class people
  18. Leaves faults
  19. Heir indicator mispronounced
  20. Rule of the best mixes: it's lime
  21. Cry like a pig; inform
  22. Replace 5 of antecedent with 100, dear

Down

  1. It's mean to admit how old you are
  2. Ancient insect brains initially under emphasized
  3. Odd and kind of rough
  4. Took (should have) after brother
  5. Victory attempt is pretty cool
  6. Nerve gas engulfs Sumerian city
  7. Lamb got name from Cornelians
  8. Letter triangle
  9. According to Nelson, reassigned staff
  10. Stuck; beyond education
  11. Persona of Oregon
  12. Let team go home
  13. Really like no score
  14. Pace of poet free with meter
  15. Secular ballad
  16. What's not said by one in diplomacy
  17. Trumpet headdress
  18. Spurs gametes
  19. Locus of hearing, vision
  20. Wines ferment; hers rise
  21. Wet, to men, is aroused
  22. Tabloids take in Commons leader, Queen's daughter

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