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Hints for Guest Puzzle - "Fortune Cookie" by Arthur Schless

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 indicate lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. Mystery entry (7, 4)
  2. (BLT with rye I concocted on leave) (7)
  3. Courts primarily where only officers serve (4)
  4. Sole set awry in foot deformity (7)
  5. (Sizzling hot cue signals hit) (6)
  6. Loiter nonchalantly around French clover (7)
  7. (Lead singer) (5)
  8. (Satisfactory rise) (4)
  9. Money I put in instrument you originally lost (4)
  10. *Rule nine involves Russian (5)
  11. Secretary scribbled notes (5)
  12. (Broil fish organ with a bit of rice) (5)
  13. Irish consumed with anger (5)
  14. Ride metro around ancient government unit (4)
  15. (We let out about five to a dozen) (6)
  16. (Waterway a clan littered) (5)
  17. Army posts for Troy security, primarily (5)
  18. Corner in street (4)
  19. (Restaurant has foremost coffee and French éclairs) (4)
  20. (Garments are short and essentially garish) (5)
  21. Rodents in Copacabana (4)
  22. Dad had wide foot (3)
  23. (Corrupt, venal center) (5)
  24. (Cereal leading dieticians stigmatize) (5)

Down

  1. Dressmaker, e.g., has more material? (8)
  2. (Auction includes originally blue pelt) (5)
  3. Smoke in refrigerator (6)
  4. Opening part of plain letter (5)
  5. Business dealing with capacitor memory (4)
  6. (Paleness of opal lorgnettes ) (6)
  7. Distribute one solid wire coil (8)
  8. Call out location of goods (4)
  9. (Looked over large salad) (4)
  10. Englishman eliminating right datum (3)
  11. Thresholds of secondary pains (5)
  12. Mystery entry (5, 3)
  13. *Poet a crew distracted (5)
  14. (Lines formed in shortened workday for sheer material) (5)
  15. Streetcar of Teddy Roosevelt's America (4)
  16. Vessel is endlessly large (3)
  17. (Advocate wearing Vice Admiral's neckware) (6)
  18. Relative invests money around country (6)
  19. (Choice selection of the literature) (5)
  20. Newt has hefty heart (3)
  21. Wasp entirely circles tree (5)
  22. (Who reportedly first chucked hot alcohol?) (5)
  23. *(Author of "Windblown Ashes") (4)
  24. Insert in centerpiece (5)

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