<ACROSS PUZZLE>
<TITLE>
	Wednesday, March 04, 1987
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<COPYRIGHT>
	
<SIZE>
	15x15
<GRID>
	GLINTED.POSTMAN
	RESERVE.AVERAGE
	INITIAL.RETIRES
	MDS.ASEVER.LEST
	...ELITE.TEL...
	ROAD.VEND.ASHES
	EMPIRE.TANG.AIT
	FERTILE.MELANGE
	EGO.SYST.GENDER
	RANGE.TELL.TYRE
	...USA.RAIDS...
	GAGS.FRINGE.EFG
	AGITATE.CENTRAL
	RELATED.ENSNARE
	BEAVERS.STETSON
<ACROSS>
	Sparkled
	"The Ч Always Rings Twice": Cain
	Federal Ч Bank
	So-so
	Part of a monogram
	Withdraws
	A.M.A. members
	Letter ending
	"ЧЧ we forget"
	Top-drawer
	Arabic word for hill
	Part of a Hope-Crosby film title
	Sell
	Fireplace residue
	ЧЧ State (New York)
	Exciting flavor
	Islet
	Fruitful
	Medley
	Conceit
	Org.
	Sex
	Gamut
	Show's companion
	Phoenician seaport
	"Born in the ЧЧ"
	Forays
	Laugh-getters
	Surrey topping
	D-H connection
	Stir
	Basic
	Akin
	Trap
	Silk hats
	Texan's hat
<DOWN>
	Forbidding
	Give temporarily
	Osiris's sister
	Bottom line
	Test
	With equivocation
	Erase
	Peel
	Open
	Defeat a bridge contract
	Bird songs
	Stable mate
	Eons
	Aerie, e.g.
	Air hole
	Prepare for publication
	Golf thrill
	Allude (to)
	Alpha's antithesis
	Bib's cousin
	Weir
	Close by
	"The Ч Sanction": Trevanian
	Cubic meter
	Stands up
	Careless
	Superlative ending
	Leaf cutters
	Actress Garr
	Composer Mahler
	Jousters' weapons
	Later
	Thick
	Attire
	Author James ЧЧ
	River or monster
	Beatty film
	Times
	Gambling game
	Valley
	Dined
	Explosive