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	Saturday, December 05, 1987
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	15x15
<GRID>
	AIDA.GATE.NORMA
	PREP.OMEN.URIAL
	SIMONBOCCANEGRA
	OSA.AIRSAC..INT
	..GPS...GRANDEE
	ABORTED.EERO...
	RAGE.LIA..TRITE
	ALIFEFORTHETSAR
	DICER..MIA.HOLD
	...RIAL.OSCEOLA
	MASSAGE...ARC..
	ODA..RASCAL.TAE
	TALESOFHOFFMANN
	ENATE.ERMA.UNDO
	TOSCA.DIOR.DEYS
<ACROSS>
	Opera premiere: Cairo, 1871
	Box-office take
	Opera premiere: Milan, 1831
	Get ready for an exam
	Portent
	Asian wild sheep
	Opera premiere: Venice, 1857
	Explorer Johnson
	Avian lung outgrowth
	Bank divd.
	Certain M.D.'s
	Noble Castilian
	Canceled a space mission
	Saarinen
	Choler
	Debussy's "Air de ЧЧ"
	Hackneyed
	Opera premiere: St. Petersburg, 1836
	Kitchen tool
	Farrow
	Ship cavity
	Iranian coin
	Seminole chief
	Body kneading
	Balfe's "Joan of ЧЧ"
	Room in Mozart's "Abduction..."
	Rogue
	Grasp, to Burns
	Opera premiere: Paris, 1881
	Growing out
	Bombeck
	Loosen
	Opera premiere: Rome, 1900
	Designer Christian
	Former Algerian rulers
<DOWN>
	Lhasa ЧЧ
	Blooming bulb
	Rabble-rousing
	G.I. address
	Mongolian desert
	Falla's "El ЧЧ Brujo"
	Gumshoes
	Confine a budgerigar
	Puccini's Suor Angelica
	Bauxite, e.g.
	Unbending
	W.W. I battle site
	Winged
	Publisher Conde
	Mideast port
	Likes better
	Commedia dell'ЧЧ
	Cold wind over Tex.
	Rumanian city
	"ЧЧ Ha'i"
	Sprite
	God, in Genova
	Estuary
	Flammable liquid hydrocarbon
	Lofty
	Wagnerian goddess
	Assam silkworm
	Franco's uncle
	Owns
	Of soil: Comb. form
	Browsed
	Leg part
	Bach art form
	Hersey town
	Casa rooms
	Indian title of respect
	Italian lago
	At some remove
	"Show Boat" captain
	Father of Cainan
	Common abbr.
	Galilee, e.g.
	Kind of pie