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Hints for Puzzle #84– May 2008  "X"

Instructions: Numbers in parentheses give lengths of answer words, and an asterisk * indicates a capitalized word.

Across

  1. *East Orange's most prominent family (5)
  2. Play host to 1100 in noisy Tripoli (5)
  3. A right to punish in secret (6)
  4. Dance got started after small victory (5)
  5. Angry about end of meat supply (5)
  6. Let go of transparency (5)
  7. Pooh comes back with the sound of a cold (5)
  8. Pass carrying a hot chunk of fuel (4)
  9. That French train doesn't start (4)
  10. Perfect voice (5)
  11. Initially churlish, ill-mannered, and unrefined (5)
  12. Support it with promissory notes having favorable conditions (10)
  13. Stroked evenly with tip of club (3)
  14. Resolve to have base for work measure (4)
  15. Faculty keeps up with head of school in a state of uncertainty (8)
  16. Final form (4)
  17. Class is all about fiber (5)
  18. Not having much of anything (4)
  19. Potter makes right one pileous (5)
  20. Party ran ticket with strong man (6)
  21. New topics in the physics of light (6)
  22. Talked jargon with no end of bull (4)
  23. High cheer for opening (4)
  24. Finish rewrite about a nag (5)

Down

  1. *Picture's Ben's follower as a king (6)
  2. *Writer started getting hell for end of song (5)
  3. Sea bird's speed (5)
  4. Getting dirty without face getting greasy (6)
  5. Hooker with love for cards (5)
  6. Arrange time and place (5)
  7. Make a point of dishonesty (4)
  8. Provide cover or stop talking (4)
  9. Leave filming session unfinished (4)
  10. In story, Penny is second to fall back (6)
  11. Putrefaction begins in old food item (6)
  12. Broad in scope and deceptively plausible, when error is initially absent (8)
  13. Write more, including detail (4)
  14. Animal with a large, really ugly snout up front (6)
  15. Endless Irish rainbow (4)
  16. Knight uttered oath out loud for entertainment (6)
  17. Infamous spy and Argentine personality (6)
  18. Lack number for date in document (4)
  19. State regulated milk suppliers (5)
  20. Royal emissary started to entertain lavishly (6)
  21. Lyon is questionably unique (4)
  22. Started summer getaway with a view of the ocean (8)
  23. Turned up flaws of little importance (5)

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