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Puzzle #8--January 2002 "Happy New Year"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to twelve letters), 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. Nine across words and eight down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those seventeen letters, taken in order, spell a four-word phrase related to the title of this puzzle. Answers include six proper names. 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. Arousing panic? Or mild like the new year?
  2. Number-running projection
  3. Head east in case of stop
  4. Dog of Armagnac or Gironde
  5. After safe start, we return before time waste
  6. Speak very loudly when quiet beyond the limits
  7. Period baseball statistic
  8. Cut favorite bit
  9. Meandering line of river
  10. Eat a little bit of Juno's honey
  11. Song hit in ideological jargon
  12. Hypersensitivity to every unit of work year
  13. Strange places: ie, exceptional
  14. Officer has ring in figurative word right
  15. Gets up around northern waters
  16. Fuss with core of numbered brick
  17. Attacked and powdered
  18. Erupting--ie, 2 x 5--US volcano
  19. Near the beginning of peer year
  20. Paris quartier language
  21. Restrain square sounding knave with exit limits

Down

  1. Precaution is perversely persistent
  2. Guardian spirit and show backer
  3. Bird allowed around tavern
  4. Read in France about source of Oise river
  5. Rascal reformed as sailor
  6. Lunatic is vacuous about sister's debut
  7. Look suggestively, stagger back
  8. What can be square or round: ball, for example
  9. Not up to snuff when out of these kinds
  10. Artist found in bed, alive!
  11. School officials take cover in crude answers
  12. Hoary about very easy money
  13. Newspaper in spasm: terribly sad
  14. Sing in lively ode lilt
  15. Stalin's name for a riding coat
  16. Poetry right out of bad prose
  17. The top came off
  18. Extends, pops back
  19. Start united in debt
  20. Know about craving where food is concerned
  21. Begin public critique of advance showing
  22. Oppose idea for musical genre

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