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Puzzle #2--July 2001: "Born on the fourth of July"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from four to nine 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. Six across words and six down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those twelve letters, taken in order, spell a two-word phrase related to the title of this puzzle. Answers include three proper names. [Want to see some hints?]

Across

  1. Advocate starting work in stratum
  2. Leave confused, initially to eat; get lift
  3. Alban ice
  4. Sound of fleet button
  5. Go out with singular friend
  6. Slow flow of Baum books in Old English
  7. In Macbeth, an eager laird
  8. One who says no to a bit of fineness?
  9. Finished 500 + 1
  10. Calls, leaves
  11. Armor post
  12. Audacious favorite loses 50
  13. Relate to surreal painter
  14. Kiss! Slap!
  15. City holds benefit about street
  16. Eject element of ill will
  17. I'm included in property appraisal
  18. Disrupt a tense assembly
  19. Has picture covering jelly
  20. Composed drug
  21. Not liking a line of poetry
  22. "Time line" a figure of speech
  23. Analyze gelatin of reproduction

Down

  1. Hero's man, a front runner, has nice start
  2. Wretched bear slime
  3. Narcotic mix to a pie
  4. Do well without final pin
  5. Hamlet gets head of Claudius in caper
  6. No holding by table linen
  7. Ovivore holds tip of big kitchen tool
  8. Grand single left
  9. Stamps that announce how old you are?
  10. Schnozzle has one sound
  11. Smash stanza
  12. Unbridled zeal for loaf
  13. Sit back in ampler tenon cavity
  14. Not once even turned around right
  15. A tiny bit of tomato marmalade
  16. Shrub viper zapped by tip of tine
  17. Name of Indian actress
  18. Distasteful: fetus aborted away from center
  19. One who wholly believes he can lift about 50?
  20. Spike centiliter feed
  21. Polishes the desert
  22. Time in fitful sleep a grind

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