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Special Puzzle #2--August 2002 "E X I T"

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to nine 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. Nineteen answer words must be altered before they will fit in the grid. Five across words and five down words won't fit unless one of their letters is omitted. Those ten letters, taken in order, spell a three-word phrase that explain how the other nine words, two of them across and seven down, are to be altered. Answers include five 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. Deceitful, sick, sour, mad? Start yelling!
  2. In favor of wearing one garment
  3. Bully is not at post
  4. Hamper is heavier housing die
  5. Facility in cerium alteration
  6. Get keener instrument in coin
  7. Start running group
  8. Aged couple wins jury's heart
  9. Burning end of gaff in river
  10. Scene mainly involving lavage
  11. Near a narrows, sheltering islands
  12. Extravagant English author
  13. Copy report about burning heap
  14. Tree fowl start nesting again
  15. Stealthy, slithering snake
  16. Captured egg turned rotten outside
  17. Male absolute: speak grumpily
  18. Cultivate around middle of brushy shelter
  19. Returning at one, catch musical suite
  20. Investigate material science's origin
  21. Alarmed hooker in snow vehicle
  22. Lead successful venture in fruit

Down

  1. One egg I consumed, to start off
  2. Digesting isn't real for guts
  3. Play with favorite trull
  4. Badly hurt after torture started in actuality
  5. Plead for ending in profit
  6. Finish of work consumes poet
  7. Expert has start of noxious disease
  8. Bower shaft
  9. Spinner of fabric adding nothing
  10. Part of Cæsarean zone
  11. Emperor had scattered rain
  12. Fact in France ending with belief
  13. Going without one sound maker
  14. Everyone hides over there
  15. Pitches in earnest, concealing curve
  16. Air gut-churning music-maker
  17. Enhanced range for emotion
  18. Wins set, upsetting watcher
  19. A quiet little desire
  20. Writes charges by ear
  21. Supreme in deviance, take liberties
  22. Long morning starting pretty light
  23. Had thorns shaped for quick writing
  24. Satie edited, putting note back in place

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