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Hints for Puzzle #62– July 2006 "Flying Circus "

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. An asterisk * indicates a proper name and a hash mark # a hyphenated word.

Across

  1. Mystery entry (7)
  2. (Starting to run with enough tread) (7)
  3. Henry in essence started shirking duties (6)
  4. Voyage around north with slow traveler (5)
  5. Study Georgia's dance (5)
  6. Mark loses team's first championship (5)
  7. (Discovered kitty holding ring) (5)
  8. Minority has press backing (4)
  9. Wrong unit with small cavity (5)
  10. False claim pertaining to apples (5)
  11. Soft and elegant with no one getting upset (6)
  12. Mystery entry (4)
  13. *Painter of book's final cover (4)
  14. Firm to communicate with Jack for a time (4)
  15. Wild libido consumes essentially horny guacharo (7)
  16. (New love!) (5)
  17. Devour bird (5)
  18. Left single and solitary (4)
  19. (Party cost about a quarter of that) (4)
  20. Boat in Niçoise sea gets to buoy (6)
  21. (Long talk started with a gossip) (5)
  22. British batting usable for toys (7)
  23. Vogue in rusty leather (5)
  24. Mystery entry (6)

Down

  1. Penny holds half of line for customer (6)
  2. Mystery entry (5)
  3. (Turn up in a bad situation around start of fight, giving assistance) (7)
  4. End of the voice incident (5)
  5. Charge 200 for book of insulting language (6)
  6. Southpaw took off before end of day (5)
  7. (Fake human head in crib) (5)
  8. (Grass painter) (6)
  9. Plowed land around month-old tree (6)
  10. A note about love (5)
  11. Produce an animal (4)
  12. Mystery entry (7)
  13. Disease reversed in ten cases (4)
  14. *Real confusion about one satellite (5)
  15. Arch verse for female participating in sin (5)
  16. Routine part, finally, in hit (5)
  17. *North African brew containing rubidium (6)
  18. *(Winners in Ghana include leading golfer) (5)
  19. Chief, sprung from jail, gets connection (4)
  20. #(Lion catches insect in shelter) (6)
  21. Vaticinator cut five out (4)
  22. What's left of the French is Spanish (4)
  23. Mystery entry (5)
  24. (Approve of complete unbridled Eros) (7)

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