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Hints for Bonus Puzzle – March 2006 "Chessboard"

Instructions: Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words.

Across

  1. Jack kneels in front section of church (5)
  2. Automaton to rummage around barn (5)
  3. Not at all in one version (5)
  4. Speak wildly with craven heart (4)
  5. Slowly absorbed by corpulent organisms (5)
  6. State surrounding core of high-binding chemical group (6)
  7. Conscious of wonder mixed with fear about Arabia (5)
  8. Time employed removing note for a musical interval (5)
  9. All initially grimacing under spouse's hysterical outflow (4)
  10. One shot his gun in torment (7)
  11. Consequently add nothing to energy unit (4)
  12. Monk beheaded ruminant (4)
  13. Southpaw took off before end of day (5)

Down

  1. Tree sheltering a marsupial (5)
  2. Very large soldier insect (5)
  3. Germ of old Roman force confining leader of regimental unit (5)
  4. Disease envelops equestrian leader at riding academy (6)
  5. Last of his own crop (5)
  6. Lock chief out and strip (4)
  7. Tied after turning back the French soccer team, maybe (6)
  8. One of God's names for a leporid (4)
  9. Splitting and cooking dinner before getting started (7)
  10. Pro started torching a stronghold (4)
  11. A right secured by language (5)
  12. Get edge in base quarrel (4)
  13. Jack, in a month, to be replaced by Penny in a proper manner (4)

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