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<TITLE>
	Wednesday, December 16, 1987
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	15x15
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	.MAE.TOFFS.DIVA
	JARL.OPART.OMEN
	ONCE.BEREA.OPRY
	KITCHENCABINET.
	ELITE.LEK.SERIF
	SAC.DRY.IRA.ICI
	...FGH.ASE.SAAR
	.HOLEINTHEWALL.
	WAXY.ZEE.VIM...
	ERI.ROC.SEN.QBS
	EDDIE.KAT.KAUAI
	.WINDOWDRESSING
	LAZE.SEDAN.IVAN
	PREP.SALTO.DENS
	NEST.AREAS.ERA.
<ACROSS>
	Marsh or West
	London blades
	Jessye Norman, e.g.
	Early Norse chieftain
	Category for MOMA
	Portent
	ЧЧ in a while
	City near Cleveland
	Grand Ole ЧЧ
	Unofficial advisers of a sort
	Upper crust
	Albanian coin
	Letter embellishment
	Pouch
	How to keep one's powder
	Saver's option: Abbr.
	Here, in Pans
	E-I link
	Peer's mother
	European coal-mining region
	Dingy digs
	Ceraceous
	Wye follower
	Get-up-and-go
	Silkworm
	Fabulous bird
	D.C. figure
	Some N.F.L. players
	Murphy or Lopat
	Arabian tea
	Oahu neighbor
	False front of a sort
	Take it easy
	Body type in Detroit
	Nobelist Pavlov
	Sch. for a would-be Ivy Leaguer
	City in NW Uruguay
	Burrows
	Snuggery
	Sectors
	Period
<DOWN>
	Envelope material
	Frigid
	Put in office
	Soliloquy words
	Without artifice
	Obvious pretense
	Strange
	Poke with a pike
	Blackmore's "Lorna ЧЧ"
	Cousin of a Vandyke
	Upright
	"ЧЧ port in a storm"
	Jay Leno's specialty
	Hem and haw
	"There ЧЧ tavern in the town. .."
	Conifer
	Root: Comb. form
	Superman portrayer
	Thing in the ointment
	Consumed
	Pam Dawber TV role
	Nuts and bolts, etc.
	Rusts
	Tippet and tucker
	Forty ЧЧ (nap)
	Minute
	Color for a carpet
	Layers
	Archer's need
	Cream-pie flavor
	Puts one's John Henry on
	Maladroit
	Befuddle
	Away
	Thessaly mountain
	Baseball's Slaughter
	Hosp. staff member