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Hints for Puzzle #61– June 2006 "Two-Way"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that one or more letters must be omitted from the answer word before it will fit in the grid. Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a proper noun.

Across

  1. Face pain with elan (7)
  2. Unsettled pair of states join together (8)
  3. Steiger and Wilson in roundup (5)
  4. Quit, losing $1,000 for copal maybe (5)
  5. One is mad for dye (5)
  6. Allowed in action and wiped out (7)
  7. Put time in to satisfy condition (5)
  8. Some letters about an item on a menu (6)
  9. Military engineer cut end of fin from fish (6)
  10. . . . mashing a clove at the same time (6)
  11. Indicate assent and talk about forgiveness (6)
  12. Split and cut around center of patch (6)
  13. Leader dropped out of race for grass (4)
  14. Ballesteros has right to put ball in play (5)
  15. One who contends with street flow (7)
  16. Theater has no north section (4)
  17. Covering of one in bed (4)
  18. *Name of minor attraction (4)
  19. Most of the volatile oil is mercaptan (5)
  20. *Island depicted in formal tableau (5)
  21. In a word, the French annoy (6)
  22. Arrest Arab men going back inside (5)

Down

  1. (Finished the Mexican picture) (6)
  2. Saw about front team's leader getting a favorable position (9)
  3. Hare allowed outside all the time (7)
  4. Threaten endlessly with excellent trap (5)
  5. (Distribute gold in luminous trail) (6)
  6. Swell male greeting (5)
  7. Cross over for entrance (4)
  8. Part of assai lento movement involving winds (4)
  9. (Fool eats all but tail of bird to get through) (6)
  10. (Animal carrying a painting, maybe, or a drawing) (7)
  11. One removed from lift leaving a very large number (4)
  12. Ask to be seen bearing left instead of right (6)
  13. Author gets help turning press, for instance (5)
  14. Standard, very old virus (5)
  15. Zealous in awkward enthusiasm (6)
  16. (Divine color permeates ancient Briton) (7)
  17. One song provides a charged element (5)
  18. (Wild about education supporting union) (7)
  19. (Carried book alongside river in Normandy) (5)
  20. Stepped or strode heartily (4)
  21. Adjust cap about right (4)
  22. Said eight bits is a mouthful (4)
  23. (Singles in Togo's capital wanting company) (8)

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