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Puzzle #28 - September 2003. "You are there"

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. Three across words and three down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those six letters, taken in order, spell two words related to another word hidden in the completed grid that solvers are invited to find. 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. Appeal of the Parisian occupying apartment
  2. Pursuer is purer? Not true
  3. Born small, one is a burden
  4. Odd claim about silver being supernatural
  5. Open international group code
  6. Unpleasant fruit reported
  7. Rowboat, losing last bit of splash, becomes drab
  8. Philosophy with no philosopher
  9. Rounded projection of sphere lacking gravity
  10. Prelate's office is in use, evidently
  11. Got together around end of April thaw
  12. Happening in uniform time
  13. Stockings put before a prophet
  14. Visionary eats December's first feast
  15. Head of rajah adorned by vegetable and cap
  16. Division of small insects
  17. Strangely garbed hound
  18. Cat ending gig in row
  19. Group of stars maintains crazy fleet
  20. Use any distraction, being insecure
  21. Base unit of structural material
  22. Tool unties knotted line
  23. Profited from quiet assistance
  24. Lake contains trace of gold compound
  25. Publicize everything French

Down

  1. Trim page and letter
  2. Fundamental muddle in cargo
  3. Organ has energy for sudden thrust
  4. Given preferential ranking, gave up speaking
  5. In frenzy, metabolizes protein
  6. Rank amateur takes it back with zero damage
  7. Keen start-up in state reformation
  8. Military man engaged in reassembling close forces
  9. Painter of mark in vessel
  10. Frequent search around area
  11. Genie mistaken for Nobel chemist
  12. Like a goose, sounded two notes in storm before break of day
  13. Stop putting earth in box
  14. Pit turned up in polish
  15. Let out bird with no tail
  16. Locus of auditory/visual perception
  17. Virtual prisoner in fancy berth
  18. British royal rebuilt university
  19. Road ends surrounding gulf
  20. Horse fish
  21. Poor Bill, endlessly shoved around in print
  22. Start milling grain in ditch

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