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Hints for Puzzle #80– January 2008 "Let's Face It"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that a letter must be omitted from the answser word before it will fit in the grid. Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. (Our group follows start of action in strike break) (6)
  2. Witchcraft holds ten back with attractive force (8)
  3. Get ready to take a step (5)
  4. Mark of current coin (6)
  5. These boys carry fat around (5)
  6. Baffle a fool with a sheet of paper (4)
  7. Challenge upset moderate center (4)
  8. Happiness is hugging trees (5)
  9. Witticism about small being the lion's share (4)
  10. Large body of water containing rare fluids (4)
  11. Rocky soil delayed ceremony (8)
  12. *Mystery entry (5)
  13. *Gooner's excited state (6)
  14. (Start without leader for shelter) (6)
  15. *Chimp's distress about wood (6)
  16. Fish, losing top of head, becomes blue (3)
  17. (Talk about Spanish river carriage) (7)
  18. Man appears holding a large mass of rock (5)
  19. Hear welcome sound (4)
  20. Aircraft landed initially in ragged ridge (6)
  21. Stick Henry in charge instead of King (6)
  22. A noon examination revealing no sense of right and wrong (6)
  23. (Senseless if reversed before starting the suit) (6)

Down

  1. Crudely hid things for a later look (9)
  2. In essence, socially backward and secular (4)
  3. Skin marking is a signal (6)
  4. (Disney, for instance, recreated Taormina) (8)
  5. *(Indian philosopher) (6)
  6. It's dreary in Maldonado, Uruguay (4)
  7. Community gathering to take place before end of June (3)
  8. Judge takes Turkish coin for quartz (6)
  9. Watch end of tap slowly trickle (4)
  10. *Newer analysis includes frog genus (4)
  11. Stern of ship hit barge (4)
  12. *Oriental, as in a burlesque (5)
  13. Snide answer conceals thought (4)
  14. Burdened boy with plenty, essentially (5)
  15. Get going without a meal (5)
  16. A coat and a robe (4)
  17. (Pleased about charter) (5)
  18. Grand boater perhaps steps down to the river (4)
  19. (Mound of sand covers head of crass simpleton) (5)
  20. Stuff pig with top of turnip (4)
  21. Having wings, a teal flies (5)
  22. America rudely expels one picture-taker (6)
  23. Perform ceremony about established church (6)
  24. Looking forward to row about minerals (9)

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