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Guest Puzzle by Mike Lessie – "Live! At the Apollo Theater"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to eight letters and include one foreign word, one two-word phrase, and three proper names), 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. Five across and six down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those eleven letters, taken in order, spell a two-word phrase related to the three mystery entries. (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. Mystery Entry
  2. At no time, reversed even the beginning of resistance
  3. Insect's tail used with no trouble for bait
  4. Reds' leader has large returning baseball team
  5. Collect one more Spanish snake head
  6. Dishes obtained from Wilder estate
  7. Lance thrust drunk backwards on initial try
  8. Gaze upon wild aster
  9. Buffalo Bill goes halfway – premier of show no longer off
  10. Tragic Shakespearean character's speech results in sidelong glance
  11. Soak flax in the midst of secretion
  12. Origin of Tin Man with no heart
  13. Mystery Entry
  14. Age of older ancestor
  15. See that no jerk earns first place
  16. No resistance with club having 1000 in wild party
  17. Cool the heels for Wise Guy, with initial arrest
  18. Mother of Pearl Buck can remember only the first two parts
  19. Hold onto incomplete complaint
  20. An entomology leader trails around walking stick
  21. Holy man uses pencil with no tip for tracing
  22. Conspicuously hides small photograph
  23. Mary almost finishes most of salad with a dry Sicilian wine
  24. State question in a specific manner
  25. Mystery Entry

Down

  1. Science of flying produced by a cauldron with iodine and charged particle
  2. Papa is agitated and is torn, it is clear
  3. Sitcom is strangely concerned with indifferent philosophy
  4. With swirling air, nitrogen drops from the sky
  5. Offensive strategy detailed in AT&T acknowledgement
  6. Suddenly stop at booth
  7. Piece of dialogue delivered at start of movie by topless Dan Blocker
  8. Tess doesn't finish, Ted is tried and true
  9. A South America Corporation head returns to a home in Toledo
  10. Crude crown on the head of complete idiot
  11. Before initial collapse, take time to build it up
  12. Torso is twisted on perch
  13. Musical group has first part of trip by resort city in Brazil
  14. Cincinnati players in Warren Beatty movie
  15. Public transportation occupation
  16. Each nurse to make money that is deserved
  17. Reverse path back of the kidney
  18. Large mongrel has angry look
  19. For example, the earliest geo-formation is the production of a certain layer
  20. Wouk's famous ship's in California in ultimate voyage
  21. Soldier standing guard in second doorway
  22. Inlet of air is reversed
  23. Goose feminine neighbor at the Center
  24. Supporter gets leader to talk big
  25. Brings about with pains

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