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Hints for Puzzle #58– March 2006 "A Void"

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.

Across

  1. (Prune asymmetrically, going around in discomfort) (6)
  2. State building's topical renovation (7)
  3. Follow vehicle back at end of break (5)
  4. (End turns east for pass) (6)
  5. (Put small cup into slipper for strength) (6)
  6. (Something enormous found headless in receptacle) (6)
  7. (One who abhors holding large noose) (6)
  8. (Time to claim last piece of iron bar) (6)
  9. Gore remaining after excess becomes deadly (5)
  10. (Fifty lost at end of fight with small charge) (4)
  11. (Feast on large pickled emu's head) (6)
  12. (Allowed nothing male around inn) (5)
  13. (Untie rig to unravel mystery) (8)
  14. (Think without starting to resolve a difference) (7)
  15. (Caller railed in anguish) (6)
  16. Standard in women or men (4)
  17. (Get-up concealed by trousers) (5)
  18. (Weblike structure of shrub with split center) (4)
  19. (Feel end of long cord) (5)
  20. Hit after hit becomes, ultimately, unpopular disaster (5)
  21. (Prize contests ending late, in reversal) (6)
  22. (A short time in a bewitched state) (5)
  23. (Menu with a fixed rate for two parties) (9)
  24. Trip a female wearing a dress (6)
  25. (On TV, lye-tossing is something new) (7)

Down

  1. (Howl of returning alien? A remarkable idea!) (7)
  2. Infix demon and large insect (7)
  3. (Outstanding singer in Stuttgart) (7)
  4. (Child surrounded by goods in prosperity) (7)
  5. (One getting notes from director at play) (8)
  6. Hard rock's fundamental tenor (6)
  7. (Top of unusual dune eroded too much) (5)
  8. Insubstantial topless pixie (4)
  9. (It's unfair in hunt to criticize) (8)
  10. Sound note and beat (5)
  11. (Like too much talk about converted center) (8)
  12. Japanese characters finally check collection (4)
  13. (Charitable person harboring victim of Hansen's disease) (5)
  14. Tip of grotesque, unhealthy organ (4)
  15. (Prohibit poet's revision) (5)
  16. (Treat an ape for breathing disorder) (5)
  17. (Gross consumer getting bigger) (7)
  18. (Old Roman hero holds tailless pet snake) (5)
  19. Cast of female organ (5)
  20. Animal trainer ingesting grain (4)
  21. (False start to end in disgrace) (5)
  22. (A bit of mushroom containing sulfur) (6)
  23. Excessively hugging dull, attractive girl (6)
  24. Pathological swelling resulting from moistureless wrapping around foul sop (6)

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