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Hints for Puzzle #93– February 2009  "Eastern Seaboard"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that a sequence of two letters must be omitted from the answer before it will fit in the grid. Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answers, and an asterisk * indicates a proper name.

Across

  1. (Command parrot to embrace jay) (7)
  2. Heat a fish noisily (6)
  3. (No cigar when cured is natural) (7)
  4. *Gets ten to rap around loud-speaker (7)
  5. (Not many turned contrary) (7)
  6. End of class (3)
  7. (Finish off with string instrument or woodwind) (5)
  8. (Durable part of Superman enterprise) (9)
  9. Stone tossed at bird (5)
  10. *Ella's confused about one name (5)
  11. Number in back reflected in sword (6)
  12. *(Dotty, Irma, and Jane's last name) (5)
  13. Exact number authorized (6)
  14. Uncompromising violinist (5)
  15. Monitor a cell's course (4)
  16. Client has a claim (4)
  17. Withdraw money for digs, including current assets (6)
  18. List showing time for graduate's first informal talk (5)
  19. Published piece of inditement (4)
  20. *Name of hag looking the wrong way (4)
  21. Maneuver has Bill in sudden spasm (6)
  22. *A small island and a continent (4)
  23. Extract the inside of fish (6)
  24. (Doc and I are consumed by a craving for crackerjack) (9)

Down

  1. (Prisoner gets island material) (8)
  2. Legislator condemned treason (7)
  3. (The alteration of a pattern takes a minute flat) (9)
  4. Waste nothing when fixing luncheon for underwater railway (7)
  5. Medieval flag is returned for value (5)
  6. *Consider it reasonable to include a republic (7)
  7. Returning writer's wife is eager at first to go to bed (6)
  8. (Smashing nice sconce evokes sense of wrong) (10)
  9. Chief has mining started in gorge (5)
  10. *(Choose right one for Agamemnon's daughter) (7)
  11. (One barbarian is in Montana for an intensive search) (7)
  12. Stage of development in psychoanalysis (4)
  13. (One end is a denatured nucleoside) (9)
  14. Rigorous maneuver doesn't end in street (6)
  15. File number for cloth (5)
  16. Gets far out by small steps (6)
  17. Silly joke has heart (4)
  18. Bird container has no top (3)
  19. Sack servant that gets sick (7)
  20. Allocation of clothing (3)
  21. Monkey turning it over and over again (4)
  22. (Embodiment of Gardner and sailor) (6)

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