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Hints for Puzzle #67– December 2006 "O What Fun"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that a letter must be omitted from the answer word before it will fit in the grid, an asterisk * indicates a proper name, and numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words.

Across

  1. (Right sauce with topping of vino for pasta) (7)
  2. (Record farewell in choral music) (7)
  3. (Go fishing, maybe, with small clappers) (9)
  4. Series number for fabric (5)
  5. Mack loses time giving a trumpet call (6)
  6. (Zero-degree clothing to wear) (5)
  7. Nicklaus started right getting out of rough altogether (4)
  8. (Number of men in England) (4)
  9. Dug one thousand and one, two thousand and one . . . (5)
  10. (Fired core in plain ceramic) (9)
  11. Mystery entry (6, 5)
  12. Agreement of international body and university (Yale) about bird (9)
  13. Bring under control and cap source of energy (4)
  14. (Trimmed in Southport) (6)
  15. *She's running East German state (5)
  16. With a fondness for complaining unquietly (6)
  17. Undamaged surface of Eastern jade (6)
  18. (Core of hollowed mattress with rounded projections) (5)
  19. (Planet's initially slight acceleration change) (6)
  20. (Step around degenerate priest) (6)
  21. (Queer line taken from gag) (7)

Down

  1. (Managed to perform musical opening without a definite plan) (6)
  2. (Garment for a horse) (6)
  3. (Walk about Earth in tranquility) (5)
  4. (Nice men in play finale to achieve fame) (8)
  5. (NASA excited about vehicle in plain) (7)
  6. Speech sound from Anna's album (5)
  7. An even chance to sit up front and eat (6)
  8. (Lady called about knotty protuberance) (5)
  9. Dashed fool loses head in sack (6)
  10. *Hardy holds one for Laurence (7)
  11. Victor doesn't start at the center (5)
  12. Some men dislike having to improve (5)
  13. Most of science, oddly, is attractive (6)
  14. *(British playwright's orgy) (5)
  15. Small gallery authorized by government (5)
  16. (Begin letter containing passage) (5)
  17. Start to relax inside warm hub (5)
  18. See bird move surreptitiously (5)
  19. Long talk started with a busybody (5)
  20. (Using a leeboard to contain wind) (4)
  21. Hamilton's seminal fluid (4)
  22. Feat to astonish the initiated (5)
  23. *Back in an arid country (4)
  24. (Talk about wood for window framing) (7)

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