Lesson X-3: Sending Cryptic Messages The more things you encode, the more likely you are to waste other people's valuable time. The Rosetta Stone was actually Satan's favorite recipe for strudel.

Take Three

You may have to make great circles around the world to spread your evil ways... but you'll reap the fruits of your labor in the end.

Stressed about zirconium and oxygen (9)
Driving without error, very fast (10)
Blotchy shoulder muscle briefly comes back (7)
Spin doctor to tee up, lacking power (9)
Oldest woman is a recordholder? (6)
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Coo about ornate design (6)
Decree put a Bobbsey twin in cooler (9)
Error mixed up ode to unknown woman (4 3)
Superficial interest in showy jewelry (8)
OJ trial judge returning hideout for custodians (10)
Type of cloud over "Big" region in California (6)
Three Senators ousted at once as Pell is mixed up in wages (6 4)
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Endless ceremony involved in resistance procedure (9)
Golfer is old hand, partly with hesitation (6 6)
Dude, it's an alligator (6)
Within French island, rarest blood type is unknown (8)
Waiting, perhaps, to get $1000 for a fortress (10)
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All over the place, weave a trigonometric curve (4 4)
Chang and Eng, for example, shattered wine stems (7 5)
Popular Salt 'n' Pepa song (4 2)
Approved L.A. Law actress Susan to return (6)
German duchy is finished (7)
Expand our style with a high mound of hair in front (9)
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