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Hints for Puzzle #109– June 2010  "Windings"

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, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. Power locomotive around South Carolina (6)
  2. Harmony sung, in part (5)
  3. Pollen-bearing organ of fragrant herbs (6)
  4. Back behind nag that won't start (7)
  5. Just start breakfast and clean up early (6)
  6. Store clutter includes top of brass lamp (6)
  7. Filthy pelican swallows gull (4)
  8. *Drive around a country in Europe (5)
  9. Spirited Clay victory the end of George (5)
  10. Sun has energy for start of timeless burn (4)
  11. Bad guy is proud about evil (7)
  12. Dresser gets to keep fabric (5)
  13. Appropriate encounter (4)
  14. Essentially nasty, rotten, deceitful loudmouth (7)
  15. *State created in 1821 through union (4)
  16. Seaman with beige plaid (6)
  17. Sound of newt's head in swampy ground (4)
  18. Cassandra's got polish (4)
  19. *Roman warrior with Arabic name (5)
  20. Get a colleague to go back around site (6)
  21. Fashionable southern trade center (5)
  22. The last of home games (5)
  23. Personnel work fast before start of feast (5)

Down

  1. Mom's hot for builder (5)
  2. Persistently request more input after reshuffle (9)
  3. Whalebone and fish taken up in proscription (6)
  4. Squad leader in group is beaten (4)
  5. A sound of endless beauty (4)
  6. Mother Goose incubates accordingly (4)
  7. (Dark brown bird goes around church) (5)
  8. A suit worn after end of launch in space (6)
  9. Apium plant? Make haste without it (6)
  10. Permit covering start of trip in prospect (5)
  11. (Fever time is about up) (4)
  12. Sorry about trapped insect (9)
  13. Pongid featured in paper (3)
  14. Inferior quality of vegetables served (6)
  15. (Refuse to admit having taken over its fortune) (7)
  16. Visualized 7 – 5 (4)
  17. Ate and drank without love (6)
  18. *Catches up with an old Greek citizen (7)
  19. (Cobalt in post is a symbol of good luck) (6)
  20. Groan in pain with gas (5)
  21. Fight about iron and candy (5)
  22. Drive right around waterway (5)
  23. Brother turned around after bishop started to throw up (4)

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