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Hints for Puzzle #64– September 2006 "Food for Thought "

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 and a hash mark # a foreign word.

Across

  1. Mystery entry (5)
  2. (History, essentially, of a city woman's hat) (6)
  3. Magical charm of metal is manifest (8)
  4. One confused about chem final, but not totally (6)
  5. Running a test, say (5)
  6. Horse going around large deposit (6)
  7. Marathon organizer's reputation (5)
  8. Travel time in broad open land (5)
  9. (School leader's removed a shaft) (5)
  10. Students initially deal with compass (5)
  11. *Got away with Tory leader inside Canada's capital (6)
  12. #*French salt for California county (5)
  13. First of kings habiting all knaves in color (5)
  14. (Raggedy doll coated with metal and acid) (6)
  15. Note lemon covering overturned egg dish (6)
  16. Conclusion of suits reported (5)
  17. Small vessel or conduit for waste (5)
  18. (Misinterpreting the star burst) (7)
  19. *Historic waterway running through Grantham estate (6)
  20. Dad's second ticket (4)
  21. City's weight system (4)
  22. (Carrier's exciting result) (6)
  23. Mystery entry (5)

Down

  1. (Jester swallowing sulfur and quartz) (6)
  2. Mystery entry (3, 3)
  3. Haul trash inside a lot (5)
  4. Yarn from varietal ewes (4)
  5. Dogged drive around Long Island (6)
  6. Libertine's degree of deviation (4)
  7. Radical stories edited by controller (8)
  8. Smart guys have first of rulings taken from judicial documents (4)
  9. Sorcerer's fake article (6)
  10. Give enchantress, for one, a look (5)
  11. (Tubers and shoots encasing a digit) (8)
  12. *Mile high Spanish island (5)
  13. Media mogul loses radio's first dial (5)
  14. #Talk about round French boat (5)
  15. Endless scuffle generates trash (5)
  16. (It's more suited as a hole or a cavity) (7)
  17. Boat will half open (7)
  18. Niter rendered unreactive (5)
  19. Close friend drops a note for jailbird (6)
  20. (Opening's obscured or isn't large) (7)
  21. Mystery entry (2, 4)
  22. (Fashion author took steps to make rubber hot) (6)

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