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Puzzle #10--March 2002 "Headless Feline"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to eleven 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. Ten across words and ten down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those twenty letters, taken in order, spell an appropriate five-word phrase. Answers include one proper name. (I am grateful to Kevin Wald for his help in writing 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. Title this month: "Headless Feline"
  2. Wild boar with actual dwelling in the trees
  3. Last half of trades adding small fortune
  4. Loudspeakers for birds
  5. Unlawfully take steam
  6. Start gentle, restful relaxation in lubricant
  7. Clumsy one left unconscious
  8. Hears, sees, assents
  9. Yell line about credit
  10. Newcomers lose fifty dogs
  11. Amphibian begins, to a degree
  12. Spot character of Great Expectations
  13. Monotone performed about right
  14. Rubs last of ten out in crisscross patterns
  15. Giving speech of zero standing
  16. Stage of development: change shape
  17. Carry male emblem
  18. Part of cute, ethereal fairy's goal?
  19. Arrive, reach a climax
  20. Bean soup ingredient
  21. Heavy type of daring expression
  22. Evergreen around island universe of little value

Down

  1. Guy/girl imperative
  2. Camel ad: "More Dry Breaks"
  3. Mold measure to extirpate certain glands
  4. Stir fry--hot, foaming
  5. Carry child east
  6. Redo crane in mother-of-pearl
  7. Go in more freely for Apache leader
  8. Brightens, voices approval
  9. Hearing perfume dispatched
  10. Narcotics ring robs without right
  11. Obscured, adversary bags two grand, adds 500
  12. Cabbage for a king
  13. Mark quiet slope
  14. Ireland's antelope
  15. Correct means of communication in network
  16. Affirmative beheading of 8A
  17. Careless hit-and-run
  18. Head and shoulders flop
  19. Pledge note in writing
  20. Study supreme court notes of indebtedness; deliberate
  21. Fix the pool pit

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