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Puzzle #40– September 2004   "Soliloquy"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to ten letters and include three proper names and one foreign word), 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. Four across words and four down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those eight letters, taken in order, spell a word related to the two mystery entries. As ever, I am indebted 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 entry
  2. Queer mess run by young attendant
  3. Ship, keeping submerged, breaks up
  4. Song of eagle echoing
  5. Basic substance of brief rewritten
  6. A no-good returned to a historic Irish village
  7. Rail against Eve largely in anger
  8. First of lambs taken from fold yields fertilizer
  9. Don gives up 1000 for right guarantee
  10. Move pin in front of catch
  11. Must he meet with those others?
  12. Here in Italy, bishop returned for game
  13. New Lorca song
  14. Flat road goes around backed-up artery
  15. Officer in house having judge replace new leader
  16. Every black beheaded quickly
  17. All but opening of secret place done over as a storage vessel
  18. Reptile and garment carried by lord
  19. Superman's girl embraced by drunk performer
  20. Mystery entry

Down

  1. Sampled food with a will
  2. People of the Antilles out mostly for deer
  3. Lowlife in general assembly gets Latin welcome
  4. Wicked woman just started a Riviera resort, by god!
  5. Roger Clemens, eg, in fast roadster
  6. Supplier's shaky career interrupted by start of term
  7. Timber land
  8. Letter from upper house
  9. Always turned up keeping up a show
  10. Elegant Linnaean beekeeping establishment holds 500
  11. Business group's tree mill
  12. Singer featured in royal tourney
  13. Lean back holding functional tissue mass
  14. A projection about a deadly virus
  15. West end of London has one eminent person
  16. Of beer brewed in advance
  17. Protective covering has small price
  18. Describe disorder separating two states
  19. Guide supplied bedding and gave light
  20. Non-profit organization or concern
  21. Deficiency of touch in support
  22. Liquid core of custard covered by crushed lemon

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