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Hints for Puzzle #78– November 2007 "Not!"

Instructions:Parentheses around a clue mean that some letters 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. (Pious, mute, flighty, and rash) (9)
  2. Intellectual servant takes time for me (6)
  3. Check an acrobatic performance (5)
  4. One finally valid note about esteem (6)
  5. Spike holds small engine part (6)
  6. Borodin's baton (3)
  7. Space surrounding top of cedar tree (5)
  8. Bosses held in check in England (4)
  9. Tear in damaged light-detecting membrane (6)
  10. *Football player's in shape legwise (4)
  11. Not violating propriety with love for English teacher (6)
  12. (Labeling error invalidated memoirs about Newton) (8)
  13. Realize I've broken down in pain (7)
  14. Choose one-centimeter lens (5)
  15. Watch maker loses time getting right agent (7)
  16. #Get in touch with color of wine in Spain (5)
  17. Wind turning in circles (5)
  18. Dance a rond de jambe, maybe (5)
  19. Scope of action sounded excellent (5)
  20. *Jane's part of key rehearsal (4)
  21. Fly around one wreck (4)
  22. Sweat through sharp-looking top (8)
  23. (Clumsy writer turned around in it) (5)

Down

  1. (One box held by escort may be different) (9)
  2. Element found in hair only (4)
  3. Broken reel covered by long cape (8)
  4. *Intemperate gorgon coming back to embrace lexicographer (5)
  5. Exhausted swan in street (5)
  6. Competitor grabs head of poisonous snake (5)
  7. *Nautically barricades ancient city (5)
  8. Seen back east to blow violently (5)
  9. *Truly America's composer (5)
  10. Much about gold is bad (6)
  11. Boat's run ended in place (4)
  12. (Messy unit, initially neat, held about a thousand) (7)
  13. Flower of Fair Isle (4)
  14. Fabric of unfinished dress (5)
  15. Row about metal stopwatch, perhaps (5)
  16. Mark takes brother's place in line, in a way (6)
  17. Have kids with relatives in bed holding middle of spread (7)
  18. Crimson document ready for publication (6)
  19. *You enjoy embracing a French Archbishop (4)
  20. Room rent 200, and nothing extra for leather (7)
  21. A strong current pried it loose (7)
  22. (Knight planned to talk about Henry being cool) (10)

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