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	Monday, May 16, 1994
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	15x15
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	ALUM.PENS.BAGEL
	MENU.OVAL.IVORY
	ANDS.TATA.LOLLS
	.DOESADOGSLIFE.
	....ATE..LOD...
	PRESTO.WHEW.BAT
	RENTA.FOOD.MULE
	OFTENTIMESBEGIN
	VERT.IDES.ALLEE
	ORE.UPON.ABSENT
	...OSU..UNE....
	.WITHPUPPYLOVE.
	DANTE.ROTO.PELT
	ALGER.GOON.ERMA
	BEERS.ERNE.NOON
<ACROSS>
	One who reunes
	Bic or Parker products
	Lox's partner
	Computer offering
	Face shape
	Shade of white 
	Noifs,ЧЧ or buts
	Soho so-long
	Lounges lazily
	Start of a quip
	Consumed
	Israeli airport
	ЧЧ chango (magician's command)
	"That was close!"
	Horror film frightener
	Oscar de la ЧЧ
	Mimi Sheraton subject
	Obstinate one
	Middle of the quip
	Hor.'s opposite
	ЧЧ of March
	French avenue
	It's north of Calif.
	Chance ЧЧ (meet accidentally)
	Not present
	Columbus univ.
	One, in Orleans
	End of the quip
	His beloved was Beatrice
	Old newspaper section
	Hide
	Rags-to-riches writer
	Roughneck
	Bombeck, the columnist
	Hops brews
	Sea eagle
	Cooper's was high
<DOWN>
	Internists' org.
	Give temporarily
	Remove, as a knot
	Daydream
	Spud
	Dodge
	European defense grp.
	Dross
	Swell, as a cloud
	Have nothing to do with
	Course game
	A Gardner
	Fleur-de-ЧЧ
	Old Nick
	Coasters
	Utah city
	Allude (to)
	ЧЧ nous
	Editor's mark
	Part of NOW
	Breaks up clods
	Company B awakener
	".... in tears amid theЧЧ corn": Keats
	Ism
	Rover's playmate
	Torme and Gibson
	Raise the end of
	Cacophonous tower
	Does a groomsman's job
	Whosoever
	Bewhiskered animal
	Author Sinclair
	Fabric texture
	"Come Back, Little Sheba" playwright
	Prod
	Rating a D
	Aboveboard
	Florida's ЧЧ Beach
	Pollster Roper
	A tiny bit
	Ecru