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Hints for Puzzle #103– December 2009  "The World's Biggest Atoll"

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, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. A dime could get cut to a twelfth (10)
  2. Mandarin has a point about rage (9)
  3. Minor fracas about English wool (6)
  4. Number of children in Eden (4)
  5. Author returned boy's badge (5)
  6. (Keen to get new class of chemical compound) (6)
  7. Massachusetts in 1620, eg: end of story (6)
  8. (Modification turned louder around 5) (8)
  9. Never goes back after Republican leaves flat (4)
  10. Revised dates for glacial time period (5)
  11. Evidence Peter started to drift (5)
  12. Beginning to read badly scored documents (7)
  13. Examination inside was cancelled (4)
  14. Small, pale bird (4)
  15. Starting another list of edible African succulent plants (4)
  16. Idle, broken-down toiler (6)
  17. (Muffler license renewed before start of race) (8)
  18. Kind of music Harry plays in company (7)
  19. *Unlikely result for an overcoat (6)
  20. Finally seeing girl in mirror (5)
  21. (Priest, fulminating about love, gets sharp retort) (7)

Down

  1. Sick lady swallows one every 24 hours (5)
  2. One welder encloses a vertical support (5)
  3. Messenger getting $1000 for rabbi and warrant officer (6)
  4. Frightening wound you opened (5)
  5. Google essentially redesigned trademark (4)
  6. *Dakota Indian put nothing in damaged tent (5)
  7. Small living quarters and initially empty digs require this (5)
  8. Savonarola's rising star (4)
  9. (Reviles birds) (5)
  10. A passerine among passerines (5)
  11. (Mean swindle gets 1000 for 500) (6)
  12. A songbird is so nice in flight (6)
  13. (Water's on for a period of time) (6)
  14. Ruin debris and eastern waste (5)
  15. A thicket of fuzz and earth (5)
  16. Carbon & calx produce weather conditions (5)
  17. My uncle in Paris drops new eye piece (7)
  18. Sent back mugs and junk mail (4)
  19. (Lift to reveal disorder) (8)
  20. *Fuss about the French blade (6)
  21. *Italian port from very English city in France (6)
  22. (Southern instructor's stretcher) (8)
  23. Look small when gaining weight (5)

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