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Puzzle #25--June 2003 "Stompin' at the Savoy"

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. Seven across words and four down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those eleven letters, taken in order, spell a three-word phrase related to the two unclued mystery words. Answers, aside from mystery words, include one proper name. As ever, I am grateful to Kevin Wald for help with the clues. (If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an Adobe Acrobat version of the puzzle and grid). [Want to see some hints?]

Across

  1. Mystery word
  2. Cancel keeping a yearbook
  3. Attends to excellent candelabrum
  4. Line-holding game collapsed in a flash
  5. Action of river dam's opening
  6. Worldly Republican blocks passage
  7. Study opening
  8. Dry mare and river
  9. Father has time for small talk
  10. Speech has nasty lies about party leader
  11. Carries error in sums
  12. Depth of baby's mind
  13. Complain of mental fatigue
  14. Cheap, rotten fruit
  15. Tales of ship bearing ruler
  16. Benefit monkey without degree
  17. Island of healing saunas
  18. Get up in wild glee after end of record flood
  19. Finish brewing bad beer for bird
  20. Remove rubber held in facility
  21. Gas-fed baby
  22. Hit small bit
  23. Mystery word

Down

  1. Primates held by insect foot
  2. Fair about start of open combat
  3. Drink or talk
  4. Gibbon, eg, has self going up peak
  5. Angry god with small handkerchief
  6. Been worried about philosophy getting chemical
  7. Dwarf is clever holding urine back
  8. Enemy aircraft within range liquidated
  9. Seth is shocked by a proposition
  10. Stirring coral song
  11. Saves odd remedies, losing one
  12. Elder Nero is ill
  13. Flowers for an opera star
  14. Announcement of marriage prohibitions reported
  15. Painting bound up in straw
  16. Up in time for fever
  17. Reggie turned up without one moth
  18. Mail server produced ointment
  19. Lie still, turning brown in a period of time
  20. Busy monster has no time for discourse
  21. Rope at end has worn away
  22. Announce start of broad zonal reform

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