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One from the archives. Looks as if it might be tricky, but you regulars usually eat them for breakfast.

Do not have the solution, so we will have to sort out any ambiguities. Let's give it a go.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/62858730/Harpers%202010-04%20puz.pdf

Bumping up, in case you missed it.

Many thanjks once again, Syzygy! It's not easy going this time!

4 to go & no new ideas! This one's a monster! No-one else trying?

Not the official solution, but mine:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/62858730/Harpers%202010-04%20sol%20mine.pdf

Willing to field questions about wordplay.

Thanks, Syzygy! Got most in the end, but have no idea how to parse 1d, either!

Thanks for posting this, syz. Quite a toughie. I think 1dn is simply fun + d (fund = stock), with added letter o.

Belated thanks, peterm: somehow I had counted the O in 38d as the extra letter (where it was G of course)-- so simple!

Thanks peterm, for the play.

D = fourth-row
The def was obvious (FUND), but one of those that stares in your face & you just can't see it.
Especially annoying after 39D "third-grade".

Duh!

I liked this one. I did it in the boonies along with last Sunday's Azed, without dictionary or laptop. No problem with Harper's (though I must say it was trickier than usual), but with Azed I had to come up with words I'd never heard of; I figured they just had to exist, and they do! Thanks, Syzzie.