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Puzzle #17--October 2002 "Chicago Cubs"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to nine 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. Five across and five down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those ten letters, taken in order, spell a two-word phrase related to the three mystery words. Answers include six proper names. As ever, I am grateful to Kevin Wald for help with the clues. (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. TV turned around after end of wild start
  3. Poet dipping tip of pen in fruit
  4. Starting dinner with bread is funny
  5. Sound of drum part
  6. No good jogger loses top of toe
  7. Tripe prepared for scientist
  8. Man's taking refuge in machismo
  9. Harvest of rare apples
  10. Group within group of small broken tubes
  11. Stranger, about 50, follows tense child
  12. Ancient pulpit found in steamboat
  13. Mystery word
  14. Dave edited sacred writing
  15. Count menu eater deranged
  16. Come up swallowing last of rain water
  17. Suppress hydrogen in fuel
  18. Split payment
  19. August in France has bishop trapped--almost
  20. General keeps time
  21. Distant French sea food producer
  22. Blister-bursting hair
  23. Bird with broken leg holding frame
  24. Mystery word

Down

  1. Magical object in crystal is mangled
  2. Report of earth dish
  3. Goddess of Thebes
  4. Small one-man vessel or skiff
  5. Performing in stale musical interval
  6. Ends of cork stuck in vegetable fastener
  7. Stop baseball team comeback
  8. Rocked, smashed, and spoiled
  9. Find overt destruction
  10. Web site address put inside her pitcher
  11. Sound study instrument
  12. Start eager and randy, auricular and amatory
  13. Girl comes up in parody
  14. Birds, starting down, angle south
  15. Support back in simple hoist
  16. Go on in through cover
  17. Bill the French for fare
  18. Shuffle reveals a small number
  19. Junk furniture if left out in rear
  20. Iron found in clergyman's house is a mess
  21. A badge (?) for banter

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