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Hints for Puzzle #92– January 2009  "SOP"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that a letter must be omitted from the answer word before it will fit in the grid. Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words.

Across

  1. Fast car crashed after losing tire, initially causing an uproar (6)
  2. Covertly investigate negation in puzzle's title (5)
  3. Well, I keep having a preference (4)
  4. Last of solvent in container is critically important (5)
  5. (Priest mistaken for fairy) (6)
  6. Amended, vetoed, and set aside (6)
  7. (Clean shot and weapon) (5)
  8. Unconcerned about a Dutch musical number (8)
  9. Scattering faster, shoot a spray of bullets (6)
  10. Hidden discharge doesn't end (6)
  11. Mystery entry (11)
  12. Improve morning finale (5)
  13. Beginning of life in bay causes disease (6)
  14. French author carries pressure tool (5)
  15. Sport in Japan just started with a shoot (4)
  16. Lieutenant hiding inside thin cover (7)
  17. Some of the bonbons might be black (4)
  18. Device that measures a thousand in a row (5)
  19. Note initially clean condition of instrument (8)
  20. Give up pitch about godhead (6)
  21. Stand or stumble on demand (6)

Down

  1. Firm fuzz makes hard stone (5)
  2. (Start thread in seat and sew loosely) (5)
  3. Some rituals having value (5)
  4. Start to cut behind the French fold (7)
  5. Liquors' benefits (5)
  6. Division of near east (4)
  7. Haul trailer up front, adding grain (5)
  8. Protector to hold off about conclusion (8)
  9. (Flag a vehicle carrying a plant) (5)
  10. Master's order (finally) for Latin schoolbook (6)
  11. (Thoughtful reworking of 7π) (7)
  12. Confused justice takes bachelor for one dependent (7)
  13. Southern unit of weight plus eastern unit of weight (5)
  14. Youngster holds large cudgel (4)
  15. (Elaborate talk about number) (6)
  16. Caustic proton donor eats up arginine (5)
  17. Songbird's gold getting one "bravo!" (6)
  18. Monster has inappropriate clothing on (6)
  19. Deposition about Homeric poetry (4)
  20. Vile echinoderm ingesting bloodsucker (5)
  21. Get sharp end of sticker inside block (5)
  22. Pallid baked goods without merit, essentially (5)
  23. Loose dirt covers head of horse in show (5)

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