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Puzzle #24--May 2003 "Flights of Fancy"

Instructions:: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from four to seven 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. Six across words and five down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those eleven letters, taken in order, spell two words related to two other words hidden in the completed grid that solvers are invited to find. Answers include four proper names. As ever, I am grateful to Kevin Wald for help with 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. Starting early, couturier has time for publication supervisor
  2. Awkward start of school performance
  3. Old part of London hosts one lawsuit
  4. King, taking part in mysterious rites, gets hit
  5. Be affected by faulty trace
  6. Dyer's rocket put together
  7. Elaborate discourse about number
  8. College goddess
  9. Introduce busy, grasping female
  10. Number in color is amount of force
  11. Marked small vehicle with rouge
  12. Timeless disease gets naval officer
  13. Tease about solo dance
  14. About a horse brought back for actor
  15. Small-time plant
  16. Winged swan consumed after noon
  17. Stand and awkwardly drop it
  18. Adventurous newt holds one string
  19. After shaky start, terminate dispatch
  20. Debtor, for example, adding small residue
  21. A controversial paper to come out
  22. One who goes up stream with very becoming head of sorority
  23. Pull back around upper defense
  24. Leave in some pain

Down

  1. Excellent condition of property
  2. Medic, taking advantage, gets coat
  3. Chopped up, dead, and cold
  4. Dispositions of Jonson and Eliot
  5. Violent outbreak of patriotism
  6. Singer in Candy Land
  7. Carriage came in first carrying silver
  8. New awning covers a supply chest
  9. Put sulfur in uncontaminated container
  10. Deny being born holding a pistol
  11. Over in camp as trainee
  12. Hal's nasty stroke
  13. New trees trimmed for homesteader
  14. Divine color permeates ancient Briton
  15. Benefit dates changed
  16. Animal found in Bali only
  17. Give notice about conflict
  18. Spender entertains radical request
  19. Foul, stiff, and cold
  20. Right propeller makes noise
  21. Foster normal user adjustment
  22. Nobleman or knight in charge
  23. Property equally established
  24. Fine finale in flower versification

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