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Puzzle #6--November 2001 "November"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from four to ten 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 six down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those twelve letters, taken in order, spell a theme word appropriate to the title of this puzzle. In addition, two unclued mystery words are in turn related to the theme word. Answers include four proper names. 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. Mystery word
  2. It's said she dined colorlessly to put herself in favor
  3. Peculiar green end produce
  4. Sediment from male essence
  5. Manages with five birds
  6. Monster that riddled Oedipus
  7. Mark underground denizen
  8. About a sound harvesting
  9. Exaggerate blush
  10. Going back into business? Oddly, none gripe
  11. Victor leaves poem in Gaelic
  12. Tower king keeps track of error
  13. Cover south moor
  14. Italian sun fish?
  15. End of line: pass slowly through reversed blades
  16. Bring up and back
  17. Trials or distributions
  18. College comes back in relays
  19. Throw the French for a laugh
  20. Start some laundry in channel
  21. Lizard with southern twist
  22. Mystery word

Down

  1. Mother might stay on and feign illness
  2. Hair: extraterrestrial case
  3. Operator maneuver
  4. Take on, sounding more elevated
  5. Stir up former mention
  6. Italian leader has head of numbskull
  7. Leave manuscript turned around in polluted air
  8. Small (8 quarts!) particle
  9. Chemical in charitable distribution
  10. Cure list by sound
  11. Carriage with unbounded color for lady's lover
  12. Exposer gives up a merrymaker
  13. At no time, in one version
  14. Small, stupid person's back talk
  15. Did he write "The Flying Dutchman of Baseball"?
  16. Terry botched second attempt
  17. Caustic, dry about catcher
  18. Dense ether confines foam
  19. Continent of Caucasians
  20. Marriage breaks up; Opal sues
  21. U-shaped lock securer
  22. Advance PR for brutish woman

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