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Puzzle #5--October 2001 "October"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three 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 five down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those eleven letters, taken in order, spell a theme word related to the title of this puzzle. In addition, five unclued mystery words are in turn related to the theme word. Answers include five proper names. [Want to see some hints?]

Across

  1. Mystery word
  2. Official examiner finds nothing in vertex
  3. Kind of chair mover
  4. Mystery word
  5. Eater's vice: upset gut
  6. Save foundering vessel
  7. Create brand name
  8. Arranges stage scenes
  9. Islander crashes sonic car
  10. Engage network
  11. Greeting of underworld circle
  12. Giving birth to a conservative testing place
  13. Frost turns back Arabian potentate
  14. I enable bedlam in Texas
  15. Start session behind schedule with list of candidates
  16. Reclined in complaint
  17. A poet is crazed by drugs
  18. Guy said to be relaxed by aquatic mammals
  19. Leave heads of many bitter enemies in African Park
  20. Hear insect in palm nut
  21. Improves personnel with prayer
  22. Mystery word

Down

  1. Mystery word
  2. Unconscious, comes to: a muddle
  3. Tips of cane added to actual grain
  4. Time out for a bit
  5. Look equal
  6. Small nose traps
  7. Ball player in Aberrance
  8. Fudd has degree as preserver
  9. Place to eat ice after a break
  10. After initially alienating bench, works out pardons
  11. Not crazy about Long Island: a little salty
  12. Quietly get in touch with and morally advise
  13. X-rated number
  14. In accord, make amends
  15. Oh so wild a London district
  16. Observe brief communication
  17. Back to write another poem?
  18. Stagger around end of ramp, push off
  19. Decorates prunes
  20. Silly sister keeps breaking down
  21. Rate lives variously competent
  22. Mystery word

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