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Hints for Puzzle #74– July 2007 "Flying Colors"

Instructions: Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words. An asterisk * indicates a capitalized wordand the symbol L a Latin one.

Across

  1. Procedural formalities baffle Ted in a case of criminal abuse (3,4)
  2. Dad wearing torn cloth and large pearl (7)
  3. *Desire never consumes a Byzantine empress (5)
  4. Friend ingests aluminum and ester of acid (6)
  5. Penny starting on a literary patchwork (5)
  6. Owns some of purchases (3)
  7. Lime drink, with time, becomes unstable (7)
  8. Deaf, addled, and dim (4)
  9. A symbol to know (5)
  10. Dress towards the rear in toilet (6)
  11. Employer in trousers (4)
  12. Bird cut with renewed energy (8)
  13. We hit it off with English in formal attire (5,3)
  14. *Bass singer Abzug (5)
  15. Lesion's cruel disfigurement (5)
  16. Friendly refusal gets a thousand bucks instead of five hundred (6)
  17. A fruit tree in appearance (4)
  18. Origin of familiar Gardner bean (4)
  19. *Row around bay and river (5)
  20. Yank turning up at lake lodge (4)
  21. LHeaven's welcome (3)
  22. *Egyptian policeman ending beat (4)
  23. Polished dude making up insurance claim amount (6)
  24. Rascal misstated quantity (6)
  25. Unwavering rule, but riddled with error (4,4)

Down

  1. Note number put in floor for laborer (7)
  2. The best of novel items (5)
  3. Small heart patch (7)
  4. Secular and at heart racially backward (4)
  5. Lean crane flying with energy (6)
  6. *Spanish explorer's retriever shortly coming back with snake (6)
  7. Loved one keeps note in a box, perhaps (4)
  8. Winning stroke ended Rose Bowl (5)
  9. Without a penalty adjustment, it's a lot (6)
  10. More competent rule initiated following island revolution (5)
  11. Caught a perch with a strip of cloth (4)
  12. Hot wife crazy about loud color (3-5)
  13. Watch pie getting creamed for a frothy top (5,3)
  14. Leg has right weight (4)
  15. Mad tea party guest not starting to crack (6)
  16. Beyond the ordinary in careful training (5)
  17. *A name and superficially a tune (5)
  18. Fluid of the mouth and of blossoms (6)
  19. *Seen dancing with a girl in an African country (7)
  20. Uncle, wearing old clothes, brought back LSD (5)
  21. Vessel with excellent TV set (4)
  22. Vessel with excellent flower pot (4)
  23. Nothing new is to be ultimately worthless (6)
  24. Color of note varying by value (4,4)

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