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Puzzle #37 – June 2004 "Stop By"
Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from four to nine letters and include two proper names), 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 removed. Those six letters, taken in order, spell a two-word phrase that explains how five across and five down words must be altered before they will fit in the grid. As ever, I am grateful to Kevin Wald for help with the clues.
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Across
- Give about half of mint for control
- Said rule is most important
- Adding all but the last container of rainwater
- Complete unfinished talk after turnover
- Summer snake
- Sexually aroused by Harvard and Yale,
Ron runs from one to the other
- Cut off one lamb's head, or a few
- See skunk's head removed from strip
- Medieval servant or seamstress
- Sent up and shown the way around many times
- One flipping over a German musical
- Take off this French fabric
- Mother ingests last of rotting pomace
- Relieve friend harboring incipient allergy
- Nerve ending exposed in beheading of teacher
- Stadium ball
- Developmental stage in evolving strain
- French newspaper wrapped around a beverage
- Dodge tip of skewer point
- Inquisitive about content of many songs
- Phylactery takes a rest
- Sibling gets brooch for one maiden
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Down
- Exquisite, fashionable shirt found within 24 hours
- Nitrogen found in fruit juice residue
- No meal is improved by wheat grits
- Sense of embarrassment is identical with shy heart
- Start the run with enough tread
- Rotating vessels is a piece of cake
- Announcing drink at the rear
- Those who clean up without scruple and those who right wrongs
- English duet adapted for musical study
- MP wears cunning head cover
- Daydream about five Native Americans
- Whipped, beheaded, and consumed
- In progressive cycle, legislative assembly splits up
- Distant mile to training camp
- Marx turns up as TV star
- Rotate, turning right to left, and hang loose
- Supervise cow
- City base taking on new circus performer
- Safety center only provoked crime
- Bird to measure and determine concentration
- Cognizant of one battle error
- Trouble point northeast of bridge
- Roller 2D has radical ending
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