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	Wednesday, October 21, 1987
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	15x15
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	FISTS.SAWS.OPEC
	AMORT.CLAW.RASH
	RADIO.AGRA.EASE
	EMBER.DANMCGREW
	..USMA..SILO...
	ASS.YWCA..ANIME
	BOTT.FORTYNINER
	OREO.ULNAE.ADAR
	VERMILLION.NINO
	ELSAS..ESTA.AYR
	...HAIG..EVAN..
	USMARSHAL.ELFIN
	CHOW.TORO.SLICE
	LARK.LUMP.TALOS
	AGES.ELSE.ANENT
<ACROSS>
	Clenched hands
	Maxims
	Cartel acronym
	Spiritless, old style
	Scrabble
	Headlong
	Ma Perkins's medium
	Site of a great tomb
	Comfort
	Coal
	Service man
	Custer's alma mater: Abbr.
	Missile site
	Onager
	Lass's home away from home?
	Variety of copal
	Fly larva
	Clementine's dad, for one
	Mountain: Prefix
	Armbones
	Jewish month
	River or city in S.D.
	Mexican boy
	Maxwell and Lanchester
	"Como ЧЧ usted?"
	Scottish port
	A Presidential candidate
	Novelist Hunter
	Wild Bill, for one
	Fey
	Dog or meal
	Escamillo's foe
	Pandowdy portion
	Frolic
	Sugar cube
	Mythical man of brass
	Mellows
	Different
	Concerning
<DOWN>
	Bus token, e.g.
	Mosque V.I.P.
	Men willing for tilling
	Gives it a whirl
	Tempestuous
	Atlantic food fish
	Unicellular plant
	Tips off
	Pundit
	Chief Joseph, for one
	Carson's predecessor
	Common crossword palindrome
	Munch
	Dhu's family
	Causing dread
	"ЧЧ Suspicion," 1943 film
	Stendhal hero
	Academic inst.
	Jack's links rival
	One behind the other
	Former labor leader
	Rarity for a Gold Glove player
	Battleaxes
	N.M. resort
	Matchmaker in "Fiddler ..."
	Danube tributary
	Zoroastrian Bible
	Fiber for cordage
	Evil spirit
	Singer Jones
	Pac Ten member
	Popular 30's dance
	In addition
	Branches
	Canter's cousin
	Image
	Nutcracker's suite