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Hints for Puzzle #60– May 2006 "The Buck Stops Here"

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. An asterisk * indicates a proper name.

Across

  1. Mystery entry (6)
  2. (Braid tossed from stage) (8)
  3. Bird going in quickest, relatively (7)
  4. A piece of protective armor covering porthole on a ship, for instance (6)
  5. Returned money for instrument (4)
  6. (Fresnel's revolving optical instrument) (4)
  7. Rascal denies concealing burn (5)
  8. Nipple, unbound, left out for infant (7)
  9. (Law's timeless monument) (6)
  10. *(Fish around head of red fez wearer) (7)
  11. Mystery entry (5, 6)
  12. (Write a series about comfort) (4)
  13. Impression of sudden trouble (4)
  14. Here in Paris, endlessly absorbed by first-rate subjects (6)
  15. Dance in Madrid now without a lead (4)
  16. (Stabilize everything with a cover of fibrous material) (7)
  17. Detached note about a part in play (8)
  18. Run out of money for present (4)
  19. (Crackle of stone in produce) (9)
  20. (Bill that includes essentially dry, firm meal) (9)
  21. Mystery entry (4)

Down

  1. (500 + 144 – 1000 = rubbish) (5)
  2. (Pick of stock singled out) (6)
  3. Out of form, not in shape (4)
  4. (A lock restraining cabaret's lead performer) (7)
  5. Microbiologist has time to track game (5)
  6. (Barbarian's son becomes, finally, eager to pillage) (6)
  7. Squirmy leech latches onto tail of black badger (6)
  8. Model talks about letter (5)
  9. Information retained by keyboard operator (4)
  10. Boat safely holding back fleet (4)
  11. Latin child clutching end of shawl is a whiner (5)
  12. One carriage turned around by itself (5)
  13. Cook dropping cap in oven (4)
  14. Scenarist's opening (5)
  15. Support the ailing visionary (7)
  16. Smashed tablet in contention (6)
  17. French law essentially banning a cut of meat (4)
  18. *(A loyal leader leaving Atlanta for a city in Egypt) (5)
  19. (Swell benefit covers everyone) (7)
  20. Note: the French dispense food or money (4)
  21. Giant painter loses one (5)
  22. Gradually running out of note paper (7)
  23. (Gang member exchanges last of ham for large shellfish) (7)
  24. (Comic, right before your eyes, getting topless) (7)

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