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Puzzle #19--December 2002 "Bargain Sale"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to eight 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. Four across words and three down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those seven letters, taken in order, spell a two-word phrase that indicates how certain other words--eight of them across and six of them down--are to be treated before they're entered in the grid. Five answers are hyphenated words and another five are proper names. As ever, I am grateful to Kevin Wald for help with the clues. (If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an Adobe Acrobat version of the puzzle and grid). [Want to see some hints?]

Across

  1. Candy stuck in blob on bonnet
  2. Strangely cool, initially red, possibly blue
  3. Two cats in a drum
  4. Pay them covertly for understanding
  5. Rudely oral in public relations room
  6. Dance put cheer in rotated sphere
  7. Novice lover begins in bed
  8. One very recently put in quarantine
  9. Man with start of gruesome English disease
  10. Dad lives in cheap apartment
  11. Badger brings cheer back to donkey
  12. Smooth writer holds note
  13. City strike conflict
  14. Gives birth, initiating first of a long series
  15. Father one art form
  16. Wings of one drowned in drink
  17. Break initially, then fix
  18. Africans repeatedly turn us around
  19. Chomsky's back keeping track of chestnut
  20. Region in Far East
  21. Partition conceals monkey
  22. King has a place destroyed
  23. Disciplinarian in matter is undisciplined
  24. King wrapped in cord by topless servant
  25. Prison toilet dance
  26. Random firing around French beast
  27. Bird caught in fine net

Down

  1. Putting bone in brew, one gets disease
  2. Peter embracing small hound
  3. What protects honey from recombination
  4. Initially scrape and polish
  5. South American sun devil
  6. Disdain returning two rings
  7. Warning: universe started in a particle
  8. California harbors every flower
  9. Ardent love bird
  10. Fish caught in mite trap
  11. Shaquille, eg, has Knicks starting in real disarray
  12. Instrument of early renown
  13. Botanist Gray lives in Pasadena
  14. Relation of rodent and Greek maiden
  15. Machine gun decoration
  16. Phrase translated for Nepalese tribe
  17. Brawl involved a scarf
  18. Fussy dress has four in double trouble
  19. Mix tonic with right fruit
  20. Mark nothing in measure
  21. Hill-climbing lines on top of Kilimanjaro
  22. Manager in distress about start of voting grievance
  23. Two French words for "bird"
  24. Sensory organ of fish held in iron rod
  25. Yes, positively a lemur

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