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Hints for Puzzle #94– March 2009  "Animal Crackers"

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 give lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. (One ode sung movingly from within) (10)
  2. Before day's end a pair breaks out in hives (6)
  3. Travel around top of gorge and crest of hill (5)
  4. They finally bring back copper, calcium, and an evergreen plant (5)
  5. Legislature is apt to feel disheartened (6)
  6. Inclined to walk with energy (5)
  7. (Show what makes cheese ripen in larder) (9)
  8. *(Heathen soldiers surrounding Attic city) (6)
  9. Here is pa playing a hypocrite (8)
  10. Wife talks about cheese (4)
  11. (Independent firm started developing cleaner energy) (9)
  12. (Behold! Ten salmon) (3)
  13. *Time to muse (5)
  14. To separate, wife leaves fast (4)
  15. Subject is appealing having king banished (6)
  16. *A country in Europe: Russia (4)
  17. Held a lot back, including bail (5)
  18. *A girl's dancing topless? Blimey! (5)
  19. Adjust, reset, and start cleaning inside under cover (6)
  20. Promise Penny a part (6)
  21. (Broadcast start of classes for Harvard during break) (7)
  22. It's a goody filled with starch (4)
  23. Automatic pilot's on the fritz (6)
  24. (Train enough to walk heavily) (7)

Down

  1. (Chuck happier about German inscription) (8)
  2. Dandy part of opera (3)
  3. Fey contrariness (5)
  4. Meager yard's end (6)
  5. Move people at the Center to run (4)
  6. End of Mother Earth (4)
  7. Light reflected in myriad interiors (4)
  8. Man's head cut out of drawing inside cover (6)
  9. To introduce play is fun before event starts (6)
  10. Bother going back after Sabbath for a drink (4)
  11. (Get free English school garment) (6)
  12. (Talks with nothing up front and natters on) (7)
  13. (Crashed but got a tower) (7)
  14. (Discount value includes 1000 petabits) (6)
  15. Bill goes inside to get powdered sugar (7)
  16. Photon blocker's electron yield reduced (6)
  17. After run, Eli goes back to pass (5)
  18. Secure the outskirts of Santa Fe (4)
  19. Dealer tries to keep awake (5)
  20. Club personnel started to talk (6)
  21. (Expose alien in pound) (6)
  22. One occupying room for a season (5)
  23. Short story lacking originality (5)
  24. Walk around the French chateau (6)
  25. Crown prince had supper, maybe (4)
  26. (Mother's wise to give back rubs) (7)

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