<ACROSS PUZZLE>
<TITLE>
	Wednesday, December 21, 1988
<AUTHOR>
	
<COPYRIGHT>
	
<SIZE>
	15x15
<GRID>
	ZAPS.SPAS.CARET
	OREL.POSH.OBOLE
	MINA.ALPE.MIMIC
	BEAMER.SLAPDASH
	ILLBRED.FLEE...
	...AGAIN.ORSINI
	PIANO.VAGUE.RIG
	ARUG.BAKER.SILO
	RAT.BENET.OLDER
	DEODAR.DUOMI...
	...IFNI.PROPANE
	SLUGFEST.DOSSED
	PERIL.FIFE.HIVE
	CASTE.OKRA.ODIN
	CRASS.RIAL.DENS
<ACROSS>
	Hits via a ray gun
	Watering places
	Printer's mark
	Pitcher Hershiser
	Elegant
	Medieval French coin
	Character in "Dracula"
	French mountain
	Little, e.g.
	Leatherworker
	Any which way
	Uncouth
	Run away
	Over
	Italian revolutionary: 1819-58
	Softly, in music
	Uncertain
	Gear
	... as a bug in ЧЧ
	Cooked pastry
	Farm building
	Snitch
	"Five Men and Pompey" poet
	And wiser?
	Himalayan cedar
	Italian cathedrals
	Section of Morocco
	A fuel
	Exciting baseball game
	Bedded down, in Britain
	Danger
	Small flute
	Busy place
	Class
	Gumbo ingredient
	Norse god
	Coarse; unfeeling
	Iranian coin
	Retreats
<DOWN>
	Evil supernatural force
	Shakespearean sprite
	Of punishment
	Recklessly
	"Brother, Can You ЧЧ Dime?"
	Ward heeler
	Vipers
	Bookcase section
	British emcee
	Stands
	City on the Tevere
	A department of Greece
	Lab attendant, for short
	Therefore
	So as to be heard
	Sofa
	Nude
	Lilylike plant
	Shade of green
	"Prince ЧЧ," Borodin opera
	Cowboy's pal
	Dies ЧЧ
	Stanley Steamer, e.g.
	Costume
	He wrote "Games People Play"
	Careless
	Perplexes
	Melville novel
	Toes, e.g.
	Trial
	"A ЧЧ apple"
	Stage direction
	Composer Ethelbert
	Utopias
	Youngsters' protective assn.
	Norman of TV fame
	Sky Bear
	First Polynesian man
	ЧЧ Angelico