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	Friday, December 23, 1988
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	15x15
<GRID>
	ICER.TOPIC..BIB
	TABU.OCALA.SISE
	ETON.WALKSLIKEA
	MONROE..SKATERS
	...ALLAT..ISLET
	CAINE.TOMATO...
	RUNG.STARR.NATO
	ENOS.PISMO.ABER
	ETNA.ACTON.VERS
	...RUSSET.FOLIO
	AGIOS..DOALL...
	SAMUELS..ROCKET
	STANDUPFOR.ANTI
	NORD.CAIRO.NOTE
	SRI..ENDOW.OWED
<ACROSS>
	Confectioner of a kind
	Subject
	Tucker's partner
	No-no
	Fla. city
	Six, on a die
	Type of collar
	ЧЧ duck (waddles)
	Norman Mailer subject
	Henie and Hamill
	ЧЧ ease (uncomfortable)
	Ait
	He portrayed Alfie
	Love apple
	Ladder tread
	Brenda of comics
	Alliance acronym
	Son of Seth
	Thick-shelled clam
	But, in Bonn
	Menace in Sicily
	Exert influence over
	ЧЧ libre
	Winter apple
	Page number
	Money-exchange premiums
	Factotum
	Coleridge and Clemens
	Aerial bomb
	Defend
	Prefix with freeze
	French department
	Mubarak's capital
	Foot follower
	ЧЧ Lanka
	Provide with funds
	Due
<DOWN>
	Bit of gossip
	Inspector Clouseau's servant
	"Psychic Warfare..." author
	Win with ease
	Throw in the ЧЧ (give up)
	Wood sorrel
	Buddy
	Kinds
	Tun
	Singer-actor Theodore
	Rhone feeder
	Jungle denizen
	Is in a potentially dangerous spot
	Cafe additive
	Corrida cry
	Cocklofts
	Drank to the health of
	Hudson Bay Indian
	Pittypat in "G.W.T.W."
	Get ЧЧ the ground floor
	Marquand sleuth
	Presley's middle name, at birth
	Health spots
	Inventor of cordite
	Actress Garr
	Approximately
	Secondhand
	Ziegfeld
	Orgs.
	U. of Fla. athlete
	Japanese porcelain
	Quiver item
	Full-grown pike
	Nine inches
	ЧЧ -Nothing party
	Ending for Jean
	All even
	Topmast support
	Tahitian god