<ACROSS PUZZLE>
<TITLE>
	Thursday, January 10, 1991
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<COPYRIGHT>
	
<SIZE>
	15x15
<GRID>
	MARS.INEPT.CLUE
	ADOE.CANOE.OUSE
	HOWWASYOURHOTEL
	AREED..SCRAPER.
	LENDERS.HYPE...
	....SUET.SPRANG
	MOAB.EROS.EASEL
	ITWASROTTENTHEY
	LEAST.WEAR.EARN
	LAYERS.DRIP....
	...BITT.TEACHER
	.AMADORA..SHORE
	STOLEMYNEWTOWEL
	POLL.PONCE.PICA
	AMES.SNOOD.ATTY
<ACROSS>
	Red planet 
	Clumsy
	Hawkshaw's aid
	"Whiles, like ЧЧ, I go to find my fawn": Shak. 
	Buckeye or birchbark
	Name of three English rivers 
	Stooge's query to comic
	Slender as ЧЧ
	Sky attachment
	Some are sharks
	Hoopla
	Bird-feeder treat
	Leaped
	Ruth's birthplace
	The Graces waited on this god
	Support for John Sloan
	Start of comic's reply to 17 Across
	Minimum
	Have on
	Merit
	Strata
	Result when a tap isn't tip-top
	Deck post for cables
	Plato, to Aristotle
	Senorita in love
	Coastal area
	End of comic's reply
	Kind of tax
	City in Puerto Rico
	Size of type
	The ЧЧ Brothers of songdom
	Hair net
	LL.B. holder
<DOWN>
	Taj ЧЧ
	Idolize
	Aftermath
	Stitched
	Suffix with poet or hero
	Thumbs-down vote
	Biblical patriarch
	Gift for a pipe smoker
	Famed British theatrical family
	Work together toward a common end
	Minstrel's companion
	Transit patron
	Slithery creature
	Fruity drinks
	Occur
	Repentant one
	Asiatic goat antelope
	Lugged
	The Somalis
	Never, to Noyes
	She wrote "Three Weeks"
	Factory
	Great Barrier Island
	Not at home
	Objects for "Ryan's Express"
	Commence
	Take long steps
	Clinton's canal
	Jazz dances
	Historian's concern
	Test for a fit
	A rudderfish
	Beckett's "ЧЧ Is"
	Build
	Pony-express method
	Fissionable unit
	Jetty
	ЧЧ Domini
	Health resort
	He wrote "The Name of the Rose"
	Emulate Rolfe and Pocahontas