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Hints for Puzzle #110– July 2010  "Topless"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that letters 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. (The name of a lady with a right to plunder) (6)
  2. (Chair maker has time for a run) (6)
  3. (A very small amount of extra cement) (5)
  4. *(Shale processed in semi-arid desert region) (5)
  5. Chess champion playing the undealt cards (5)
  6. (A book Sullivan returned is in back) (6)
  7. (Tiny bits of mold and ergot) (6)
  8. (Started to tear and run) (5)
  9. (Soon to get one particle with a charge) (5)
  10. Crazy group's leader and Muslim official (4)
  11. Ground meat is insipid (4)
  12. Impulse not to start to clean (4)
  13. Reportedly hollow part of feather (4)
  14. Papa is back for a little drink (3)
  15. Row about it going back (4)
  16. (North is in harmony for a change) (5)
  17. (New topics in science) (6)
  18. *Lean on Sonny (6)
  19. Impulse not to start to throw (4)
  20. Sound of dissonant note (4)
  21. Spring flowers turned into magic orchids (5)
  22. (Hardness stops being uniform throughout sandbar) (5)
  23. Student Charles stupidly makes error only at the beginning (7)
  24. (Fouled net up with a goober) (6)
  25. (Athens undefended in times gone by) (4)
  26. (Breathless state of an ape in a frenzy) (5)
  27. (Turner's heptagrammatic palindrome) (7)

Down

  1. (Fellow that mixed an alcoholic drink) (9)
  2. Crown-like part of cracked acorn with core of rot (6)
  3. *Island's carbon network (5)
  4. Reversed single chemical compound (4)
  5. Take pride in writing about note (5)
  6. Nora's picnic includes jelly (5)
  7. Manuscript's opening (4)
  8. Chuck made it without English grant (5)
  9. Wear out in retirement (4)
  10. *Pop art (4)
  11. Notable pictures about legendary events (4)
  12. One hundred in spare change for divider (6)
  13. (So? Cover a bird) (8)
  14. Official dwelling in peripheral district (6)
  15. Erin's endless rainbow (4)
  16. Often one covers part of a joint (5)
  17. Eat long, julienned fruit (7)
  18. Remove top of pipe instrument (4)
  19. Pregnant with rising emotion (5)
  20. Stud stage of an insect's development (6)
  21. The French farewell is "Go!" (5)
  22. Coaster mended with a missing part (6)
  23. Argon blown into pipe instrument (5)
  24. *(Margaret Truman's first egg cracker) (8)

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