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Hints for Puzzle #53– October 2005 "Dada"

Instructions: Parentheses around a clue mean that a letter 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.

Across

  1. Ready to wed, initiated nasty union with ill humor (6)
  2. Unfinished action involving odd case results in death (7)
  3. (Mineral dig begun to finish procedure) (8)
  4. Vegetable is Spanish, song English (8)
  5. Writer found in street exhausted (5)
  6. Music makers reset broken bone (7)
  7. Why raiders keep log back (5)
  8. Peoria has no musical instrument (5)
  9. (Pleasure at endless outpouring of smut) (6)
  10. (Pick of three lectures) (5)
  11. *Woman of Indian ancestry (5)
  12. Beginning and end of grass cutting (5)
  13. Lists foot parts (5)
  14. Keep trainer endlessly confused (6)
  15. Stripped, cut left, and took a leak (4)
  16. Preclude living in manifest opulence (5)
  17. Two notes found in bog (4)
  18. Carmen holds a weapon (3)
  19. *Travesty about a class in biology (4)
  20. Low average (4)
  21. (Started cooking tough beet) (5)
  22. Conspire to give up nothing for a braid (4)
  23. Intense lamentation (4)
  24. Prosecutor holds a flower (4)

Down

  1. Get comfortable with new, polished steel (6)
  2. (Father eats a bit of lemon trifle) (6)
  3. What doesn't go off by error is dandy (4)
  4. Mysterious East Indian (5)
  5. Clear the throat with phosphorus and bhang (4)
  6. *Historian and head of department in social gathering (4)
  7. Satisfied about line's end being located (6)
  8. (Ill will of musician with parasites) (6)
  9. A foot generating no speed (7)
  10. Enclave, broadly, has the capacity to unite (7)
  11. Coin covers one stain (4)
  12. Immense tank containing hair (4)
  13. Managed opening of drive for money (4)
  14. Don't eat meal that doesn't contain energy (4)
  15. Endless sound takes time to go around (5)
  16. Hotel in Cincinnati (3)
  17. *City has love for lover (5)
  18. Tale is a hoot when read backwards (4)
  19. Keeper carries sword around (4)
  20. Rely on tritium to decay (5)
  21. A large number begin nesting in May (4)
  22. Tarnish tantalum in error (5)
  23. (Fix to go someplace) (6)
  24. Waste care on lens cover (6)
  25. Ultimately, his skin is thin (5)