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Hints for Puzzle #79– December 2007 "Gift Package"
Instructions: Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.
Across
- Beginning of sudden sharp twitch (5)
- Palm Sunday is about charity (4)
- Penny, facing a day in Paris without Jack, is gloomy (4)
- Unaccompanied man starting early for theater (5)
- Social gathering gets last of meat and vegetable (4)
- Mechanical repetition of recorded sound (4)
- Interior design of inside corridor (5)
- Tell one rumor about recluse (5)
- Norma edited a novel (5)
- Note about gold marketplaces (4)
- Note the similarities of level in approach (7)
- Buzz us around noon for a vegetable dip (6)
- Sort of southern dish (6)
- Visionary guide missing start of trail (4)
- Pester boxer about five hundred grand (6)
- About to propose English name (6)
- I, in person, freed royal captive (8)
- Not in a hurry; open around 1:00 (7)
- Pietra's a wanton freeloader (8)
- Unconcerned about a Dutch musical number (8)
- Woolen sash wrapped around eyepiece (4)
- Spoiling it all with love for nymphet (6)
Down
- Confident about fellow coming back for identifying label (7)
- Suet blended with phosphorus and whipped (5)
- Karl drops five eggs (3)
- Mutt to follow Bob (7)
- Resort's attractions hold back a Houston team (6)
- Improve brew with toppings of tarragon and thyme (6)
- Time outside of the room (4)
- Sage is excited about a number (7)
- Take on a cause pro tempore (5)
- Equestrian event confused De Grasse (8)
- Limit weight brought back in (6)
- *Fashion magazine of excellence (4)
- Sustains less radical decay (6)
- Head of ram in grave with one horn (8)
- Support the Spanish drive (6)
- Taser for restraining a slave (4)
- *He ran in frolicsome play (7)
- To remove parasites, get wet holding head and tail of eel (7)
- *Time to muse (5)
- *Cantor meets with jazz singer (5)
- *House of fashion disrupted endless parade (5)
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