<ACROSS PUZZLE>
<TITLE>
	Thursday, December 24, 1987
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<SIZE>
	15x15
<GRID>
	MALT.ESTES.OMNI
	ATEE.TEARY.NEON
	STANTHEMAN.CALK
	SUNSHADE.ORALLY
	...CANE.ADULT..
	ARSON.DAM.SLICK
	TOURED.ROSE.CHI
	LUPE.AWOKE.SKIN
	ATE.SKIM.ARLENE
	SERGE.SAC.OUTER
	..CREPE.ARUG...
	ATHENA.DRUGGIST
	CHIT.THEMAHATMA
	TEEN.HOLED.ROOK
	SOFA.SPINE.DOGE
<ACROSS>
	Germinated grain
	Kefauver
	Atlanta arena
	To ЧЧ (exactly)
	Pathetic
	Garish light
	Musial's nickname
	Fix a leak
	Parasol
	Viva voce
	Alpenstock's cousin
	Mature
	Pyromaniac's crime
	Rain check of a sort
	Suave
	Used a Baedeker
	World Series M.V.P.: 1975
	Between phi and psi
	Actress Velez
	Finished a nap
	Hide
	Goddess of infatuation
	Hydroplane
	Francis of films
	Suit fabric
	Algonquian from Wis.
	Peripheral
	Pancake
	"... a bug in ЧЧ"
	Pallas ЧЧ
	Rx person
	Tab
	Branch Rickey's nickname
	Harold of old comics
	Finished 18, with "out"
	Chess piece
	Chesterfield
	Backbone
	Venetian V.I.P.
<DOWN>
	Congeries
	Aleutian island
	Like Miniver Cheevy
	Two hundred
	Patriot Alien
	Rated, at Flushing Meadows
	Domesticated
	Stat for Clemens
	Vatican event
	In the bullpen
	Carl Hubbell nickname
	Steelers' coach
	Very dark
	Title for Macduff
	Trojan horse, e.g.
	Murderous frenzy
	Paper size
	U.S. 1 is one
	Allie Reynolds's nickname
	Fragrance
	Ridge or crest
	Pirates' slugger: 1946-53
	East Indian transport
	One of seven
	Sage
	Lazy one
	Gossip-column word
	Place for a niblick
	New Orleans neighbor
	Bizet opera
	Primrose and bridle
	Skier's maneuver
	New Testament book
	Dr. Huxtable's son
	Where heros are made
	"And ЧЧ... have not been idle": Russell
	Inversion problem
	Casino portion
	Flight on a shuttle