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Puzzle #36 – May 2004   "Safety First"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from four to eight letters and include one proper name), 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. Seven across words and seven down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those fourteen letters, taken in order, spell three words related to the title of the puzzle as well as to two words hidden in the completed grid that solvers are invited to find. 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. Wanting to agree with basso instead of soprano
  2. Goes here and there, in, out; and does it over and over
  3. Authorized hat containing perfume
  4. Airplane vanishes from highest point in curve
  5. Pass first of tests for young novice
  6. School torment
  7. Note opening of religious order by artist Joan
  8. Folk art form embraced by soccer star
  9. 200-mg root reported
  10. Sour green or brownish orange
  11. African province of birth
  12. Fake headers from five alleged live sex exhibits
  13. Ray, for example, has early start in riding school
  14. Goneril eschews having peeves
  15. Answer before teacher starts to fold
  16. Contend with English goods
  17. Small head cover for swallow
  18. Mettle of state chief
  19. Close in on earthworm
  20. None abandons husband for a sweet
  21. Cheer about Brazilian river bird
  22. Coin a word for "place of assembly"
  23. Attitude reversed in Mesopotamia
  24. Settle in north, mill ing steel

Down

  1. Oblique quiz directions
  2. Disorderly return of device for shooting fish
  3. Talented brother consumed by drink
  4. West embraces Latin sex
  5. Blanket talk follows start of winter
  6. Bring out what Felicity keeps under wraps
  7. Part of dissenting group harboring resistance
  8. Pirate band dropping quiet manner
  9. Talk about inhospitable lodging place!
  10. Cut with a small measure of fertilizer
  11. Copal, perhaps, put son in control
  12. Summary of matters encompassed
  13. Net error in function
  14. Prop handler started in pain
  15. Small ridge in marshy ground
  16. Actual money
  17. Member of Parliament in Ireland's domains
  18. About an organ theater holding five hundred and fifty
  19. Flipped over piquant taste of insect
  20. Damage child with rod
  21. Beats by about three points
  22. Peer upset the Spanish are leaving
  23. A thousand bucks gets a grass beard
  24. Age when Mark becomes new character

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