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Hints for Puzzle #76– September 2007 "Special Delivery"

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 phrase.

Across

  1. Mystery entry (5, 3)
  2. (Bionomics author to record start of year) (7)
  3. Aspect I found in men (4))
  4. (Apportion talk about gold) (7))
  5. Will maker move a mountain? (7))
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  6. Plate traditionally holds four (6))
  7. (Tempestuous tale about military leader) (6))
  8. Approval of sacrament (4))
  9. Mark made on skin with brew (4))
  10. (Tarnish isn't a blemish) (5))
  11. *Aristocrat keeps him superficially in mind (7))
  12. Tell about the French beginning to regulate pay (6))
  13. Willingly remove part of golf club (4))
  14. Go on dancing? Nothing doing! (2, 2))
  15. Dear lady almost finished (4))
  16. (Army unit has no time for a course in physical training) (7))
  17. *Mixed in a bun from North Africa (6))
  18. Live east of brother but not right close by (6))
  19. Nasal tincture contains tar (4))
  20. (A grass so marinated it's seaweed) (8))
  21. (Sailor allowed a glass) (6))
  22. Mystery entry (8)

Down

  1. Large animal ended play in a game of chance (7)
  2. Townsman and crooked giver getting everything back (8)
  3. (Spoiled sausage eaten without flavoring agent causes disgust) (8)
  4. Sibyl awkwardly incorporates rule (5)
  5. (That final projection is a runic character) (5)
  6. (Ran around turkey and danced) (7)
  7. Origins of ancient mitochondrial organelle expressed by Archaean protozoan (6)
  8. Start race in large sailing vessel (4)
  9. *(J. D. and Margaret going around Long Island
  10. One almost entirely dead notion) (8)
  11. Venus's game held back by defects in netting (6)
  12. (Thoroughgoing core of warranty) (6)
  13. #Roman bone encircled by blossoms (4)
  14. Indistinct note with enclosure (5)
  15. Wine that's fortified, matured, and transported overland (8)
  16. Wine when deficient embodies sin (6)
  17. Solitary plant absorbs nitrogen (5)
  18. Theodora's fragrance (4)
  19. *(Mythic king's bronze bone) (8)
  20. Celebration for Dali's wife (4)
  21. (Form early in development by more transmogrification) (6)
  22. Howl about start of big issue (4)

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