<ACROSS PUZZLE>
<TITLE>
	Friday, February 13, 1987
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<COPYRIGHT>
	
<SIZE>
	15x15
<GRID>
	BOSS.BOWER.BALM
	ABUT.ANITA.OLEO
	RIGA.SUGARCOATS
	STATUES.PERSIST
	..RUNT.BESET...
	APPRAISE.TEESUP
	SALE.MIST.DRUSE
	STU.FETTERS.GAT
	AIMEE.SMEE.MAGI
	MOSLEM.ANCHORET
	...ELOIN.EARP..
	SLAVERS.ESTELLA
	SUGARBEETS.LAOS
	TRET.IRATE.OTOE
	SERE.DENES.SETA
<ACROSS>
	Knob on a shield
	A jack in euchre
	Soothing substance
	What many states do
	Soprano Valkki
	Kind of strut on a plane
	A Melville captain
	Embellishes the ugly
	Busts, e.g.
	Be stubborn
	Sow's smallest piglet
	Harass
	Rate for taxes
	Starts, at Doral
	Vendue
	Brume
	Member of a Syrian sect
	Old-time actor Erwin
	Chains
	Rod
	Singer Mann
	Pochard
	Epiphany trio
	Mussulman
	Hermit
	Remove property, in law
	Wyatt, the old-time lawman
	Drools
	"Great Expectations" woman
	Sucrose producers
	Land bounded by the Mekong
	Waste allowance
	Choleric
	Neb. aborigine
	Evenings, in Roma
	British sand hills
	Rossini's "La Scala di ЧЧ"
<DOWN>
	Candy units
	R.I.P. notice
	Comfits
	Height
	Normal allotted period for a worker's task
	Burden
	Peruke
	Military storehouse
	Hardest to find
	Enthusiast
	Turkish regiment
	"ЧЧ go, Mets!"
	Part of M.V.P.
	Beliefs
	Actress Merkel
	Ring bearer
	State in NE India
	Place for a "steak-out"
	Poses
	Victorian sweetmeat
	Custom
	Kind of jury
	Carl Ed's comical hero
	Palp
	Alcoves
	Hoist
	Its capital is Cuernavaca
	Grisly
	What men doff to Key
	Its capital is Grenoble
	Sky speedsters
	Use a coachman
	"Happy Days ..." composer
	Feminine suffix
	Terhune novel
	On the Laptev
	Suffix with Euclid