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Hints for Puzzle #106– March 2010  "Seesaw"

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. 1. (Thrifty Ruth, half covered by torn flag) (6)
  2. One incipient canvas and one unfinished picture (4)
  3. Jacket of a knight or a king (6)
  4. (Discordant pop in proscenium causes a halt) (8)
  5. Prototypic poem in medieval Latin (5)
  6. *(South American argon- and coal-producing region) (4)
  7. (Bond infiltrates commencements) (6)
  8. (I'd bet Ned fails to become accountable) (8)
  9. Rock fish nabs heron's tail (5)
  10. (Coined a verb about going west to get away) (5)
  11. Fly left bursting with energy (5)
  12. *Calvinism overwhelms a town in Texas (5)
  13. Barren meadow forsaken at the end(4)
  14. Countermeasure has taken time (4)
  15. Dangerously conceals boil (5)
  16. List includes one oven (7)
  17. Six times in class with alien (6)
  18. Ugly sermon about Thor's head and grotesque figure (7)
  19. (A chaotic situation may at first move fast) (4)
  20. Brown ape is on the go (5)
  21. (Offer hospitality with the Spanish approach) (7)
  22. Fold note inside container (6)
  23. (Conifer's misrepresented in a debate) (8)

Down

  1. Provoke men to run amok after fighting at the front (6)
  2. Wild spree around ring produces calm (6)
  3. Pulling vehicle and wagon back by hill (7)
  4. One to get over (5)
  5. Idle movement of a 24-hour cycle (4)
  6. Same rugged tableland (4)
  7. Benefit of alcoholic beverage (4)
  8. Expected back around 5 to eat (5)
  9. Kind of weather-beaten steel (5)
  10. Wife, in turn, is now beginning to whine (6)
  11. Prevent head of fox getting caught in rungs (6)
  12. A noisy old car in urban Germany (6)
  13. Reddish brown shrub traps oxygen (5)
  14. Hotel executive gets to send messages (5)
  15. *The Minister of Groove is captivated by jazz or opera (4)
  16. Favor quiet, direct attention (6)
  17. Cat has entered into mousehole (3)
  18. Prison time ended for staff (4)
  19. Green Daimler crashes after you make one error (7)
  20. Mint plant soon started to ripen (4)
  21. Street I had paved (6)
  22. Movie machine runs without heat at first (6)
  23. Burn to make about a thousand (7)

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