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Hints for Puzzle #68– January 2007 "New Beginnings"

Instructions: Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a proper name.

Across

  1. Winner making one error in course (6)
  2. The Spanish go back with rare looker (5)
  3. Notice this site and get attached (6)
  4. Model talks about a triangle (5)
  5. Lad eats kernel of nut for uplift (4)
  6. Copy 150 + 1 (5)
  7. Small insect pin (5)
  8. Expressed a thought long in force (6)
  9. End of last animal reel (6)
  10. *Hear a lot about a sea in central Asia (4)
  11. Power is back, rejuvenated (5)
  12. Eats cooked hair (4)
  13. Start to study recent record of activity (5)
  14. Left unopened door secure (5)
  15. Keeps rejecting true claims (4)
  16. Container for finished bowl (6)
  17. Conflict about eastern clothing (4)
  18. Temper the lust for travel (7)
  19. *Gets even with a golfer from Pedreņa (4)
  20. Arrived with large caisson (5)
  21. Thin slab of wood with top cut off (4)
  22. Scene in lyric poem about core of prison (7)
  23. A little bit of soda to mix (4)
  24. Excitement is loud, always (5)

Down

  1. Finished with a little dress (5)
  2. Crown has large cover (5)
  3. Take off from Parisian canal (6)
  4. Combat bundle includes two shirts (6)
  5. Fill up with fuel containing hydrogen (5)
  6. Light originating in Seattle, shimmering and radiating from the center (8)
  7. Base mineral held up (4)
  8. Inventor chopped carrot with energy (7)
  9. One way you initiated indifference (6)
  10. There's no reason to have to breathe noisily (5)
  11. Large dress returned for money (5)
  12. Where birds mate in little knots (3)
  13. *Inappropriate doom for a devil (4)
  14. *A god brought up in a valley (4)
  15. Geneva struggling to even the score (6)
  16. *Helen informally expressed wish to have ladies around (5)
  17. Misguided pariah was the first to be beaten back (8)
  18. At first Sam, then Fanny, talk back (4)
  19. Rudely evict a viverrine (5)
  20. A narrow strip of land with scattered rainfall (4)
  21. Drink for an engraver (6)
  22. Gem of singular quality (5)
  23. Temper sound before beginning of run (5)

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