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Puzzlecrypt.com Puzzle #1--June 2001

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three 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. Answers include three proper names. [Want to see some hints?]

Across

  1. We arrive with start of lively greeting
  2. Damage zero, with state accord
  3. Enliven bird partner
  4. Irritating ass rub produces little sacs
  5. Baseball teams dressed to this?
  6. Dash! Ungulate has no tail
  7. Fool gets point around end of April
  8. After second, a degree of sorts
  9. Break instrument with tellurium
  10. Run away with electronic gait
  11. If rains messed up islands . . .
  12. The terrible one with wagon
  13. Holder of article in shelter
  14. Look at that boil!
  15. Caress bird model
  16. Carhop carries letter
  17. Cylinder movement side to side
  18. Impudent tykes crazy about redhead
  19. Leave out nothing at tech school
  20. What's left of Libra
  21. Using ill, including error in spirit
  22. Seaweeds a gale stirred up

Down

  1. Did Will say "xylem"?
  2. Bug gone astray following track
  3. Devour bird
  4. Putting me in sacred setting gets ugly
  5. If terns shattered glass . . .
  6. Indian in main cabin
  7. Speak about a way in love
  8. No right to shares of magical liquids
  9. Music critic downs wild lion
  10. Book of records in protein
  11. Unlimited flash before Vegas
  12. Map titan
  13. Express time reversal
  14. Explosive holds one in color
  15. "Habla, habla" confines drivel
  16. Myrmecophage to pay up altered rate
  17. Winged article behind schedule
  18. Women layers
  19. Pealed orange core
  20. Elastic tire lines
  21. Arch of canary's head color
  22. Direct line of poetry in Old English

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