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Hints for Puzzle #97– June 2009  "Hodgepodge"

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. A raised X indicates a scrambled word, an asterisk * a capitalized word, and a raised A an acronym.

Across

  1. XDisorder put Charles outside of circle (5)
  2. Core of tree apt to produce sound (8)
  3. (Makeshift reinvention of past has GOP confounded) (7)
  4. She's having lamb butchered in a slaughterhouse (8)
  5. (Partially repair a battered shirtfront) (5)
  6. *Purdue's official language (4)
  7. Regret never having returned to sign up (5)
  8. *Sacred book put bishop in bad temper (5)
  9. (Brought back beer fit for a king) (5)
  10. Poor and sick? Get a dose of medicine (4)
  11. (Revolutionary dance captivates brother) (5)
  12. Rebuilt adapter has no time display (6)
  13. Dear Bill returned with old Roman weights (6)
  14. (Deal to exclude profit) (7)
  15. From the south of France, small beer (4)
  16. Size up and dress down (4)
  17. The time before entering Shreveport (3)
  18. Gail dissected brain cells (4)
  19. Thin, but fights with energy (6)
  20. *Golfer Singh with 6 followed by a birdie (5)
  21. (Physician has him consuming a kilo) (5)
  22. Head of coal-black chicken (6)
  23. Eats cooked stuff (4)
  24. XMix of dried tips eaten by beast of burden (6)

Down

  1. XBombing blamed for confusion (6)
  2. (Light as a dancer I whirled) (8)
  3. (Office dude takes in an old city) (6)
  4. Authority of essay's observations (3-2)
  5. Load-bearing timbers, peerless in new construction (8)
  6. Speed of headless cow (6)
  7. ANeurotransmitter talk precedes last of symposia (4)
  8. Love in ways evoking compassion (6)
  9. *Cataract engulfs a town in Ireland (4)
  10. Knot a kerchief around winner (5)
  11. Steel cut around fabric (7)
  12. (Springfield perhaps is teeming with life initially) (5)
  13. A newlywed's eating last of hog chops (8)
  14. Vessel carrying large broken bale is at fault (8)
  15. Say goodbye, Rod (4)
  16. Get the essentials from Princess's drawer (7)
  17. *Abandoning city, advance haphazardly to get to Silver State (6)
  18. Core reactor's top is brass (6)
  19. (More vigilant about including donor) (5)
  20. (Barely cultivated grass) (6)
  21. XBig guy loses love for the French shuffle (6)

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