Mobile Flyer

Two unclued lights should become clear from the title. They are related to each other in a manner foretelling that of Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of Liberty.

Across:

1. E's tactic: messed up but excited. (8)
5. Oneself without one's little man. (3)
8. Half back murmur after saint's banjo method. (5)
11. Editor from Northeast lacking without reason. (8)
14. Plant oinker. (3)
16. 501 after one's African dictators first name. (3)
17. Cantor's energy in disconnected rings. (6)
20. The cartoonist, Darling, makes a British biscuit. (7)
21. Bubbling lye in a Northland town. (3)
22. Looker's headless duty: following honest but crooked Lincoln. (6)
24. Lion's protest of Rod embracing twisted ear. (6)
25. Searches for reaction to a mouse in ship. (5)
26. Millay's abbreviated nature shortened. (4)
27. Dine-take it back: it's bodily fluid. (3)
28. Wood scraper to spar clumsily. (4)

Down:

1. One confusing time span. (1)
2. Stone marker from a mess of steel. (5)
3. Kennedy reversed debt, canceling Boston's beginning. (3)
4. Borders about our nation's mail delivery. (5)
6. Being obsequious, Fanwing fumbles. (7)
7. Spanish shriek back making castles. (5)
9. Reset reset for concise phrasing. (5)
10. Moments after thuggish character does what deceivers do. (9)

12. In Seattle, a guest's six-mile span. (6)
13. South's debut usurps tangled scowler. (8)
14. Excremental wallow containing dose of pot. (6)
15. Er, blow harshly for Victorian headware. (6)
18. Measure a thousand-tree fallen. (5)
19. Moron's chlorine overdose. (4)
20. "Nay!" $100 reversal out of the blue. (4)
22. Supporter of bar ruckus. (3)
23. Jumbled resort to Cleopatra's finale. (3)

John D. Schwetman, December 2, 1999