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Hints for Puzzle #72– May 2007 "Mark My Words "

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 and a hash mark # a foreign phrase.

Across

  1. Mystery entry (5)
  2. One donated a century plant (5)
  3. Horn blown with zero distinction (5)
  4. Bird's false penis (5)
  5. Kind of party person (4)
  6. To strike back is crazy (4)
  7. *The biggest little city in the world is part of Yorkshire now (4)
  8. Marine creature's pledge about last of water (5)
  9. Novel about deputy surveyor's assistant (6)
  10. Henry gets ring and nimbus (4)
  11. Stingy player has to cheat (3)
  12. Returning alien took in what wasn't used (5)
  13. Mystery entry (11)
  14. Fastest rusher wins heat (6)
  15. Police trashed a drug (5)
  16. Rods puzzled essentially every solver (9)
  17. Excited ions' energy boom, for instance (5)
  18. Food encompasses large spread (5)
  19. Ring win is okay/not okay (4)
  20. Unruly teen claims right to register (5)
  21. *Chief of staff married English person from Malmö, perhaps (5)
  22. Needing to sleep with Penny as wife exhibits ailment (6)
  23. Mystery entry (5)

Down

  1. Process a crop to get coconut meat (5)
  2. Mystery entry (6)
  3. *Someone almost embraces Shaq (5)
  4. Ultimately you miss one exploit (3)
  5. Morse translated end of Russian speech (6)
  6. Express desire for habit (4)
  7. Have no motive to swallow toxin (5)
  8. Manage end of long crosspiece (4)
  9. Get nothing in trade for a small farm (5)
  10. Dad's essay for tarts and the like (6)
  11. Freely tell about the core of our fine net (5)
  12. Without a number inside ship (4)
  13. Stirring soup is work (4)
  14. Change nothing removed from gonad (4)
  15. Wrap up in old rigging (4)
  16. Tritium in fluid becomes, finally, big hazard (5)
  17. Getaway doesn't start in shaft (5)
  18. Time for nitrogen in fertilizer to ripen (6)
  19. End of new roaster is braided (5)
  20. *A small island and a continent (4)
  21. Kneels to cut up framework (8)
  22. Rent commotion kicks up a storm (7)
  23. Mystery entry (6)
  24. You end in confusion after cutting up senior (5)

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