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	Monday, December 19, 1994
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	15x15
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	....STREP.PACES
	ABC.IRENE.EPHOR
	SLOWBOATTOCHINA
	TOME.ORE.RAIN..
	ACME.PER.INDENT
	..UPI.REEF..SAO
	CANYON.DAIS.EIN
	ALI.WAD.RCA.PAT
	SOS.ATOM.ESCUDO
	ENT..USER.KHZ..
	SECTOR.DIG.EZRA
	..HOPE.ICE.CLAP
	CHINESECHECKERS
	LINEN.SALSA.SEE
	UMASS.SLYER....
<ACROSS>
	ЧЧ throat (winter ailment)
	Duelists' steps
	"20/20" network
	Actress Dunne
	Spartan magistrate
	Interminable ride
	Heavy reading
	Mine yield
	Parade stopper
	Zenith
	Each
	Paragraph start
	A.P. competitor
	Where ships run aground
	ЧЧ Paulo
	Grand site?
	Speaker's stand
	German article
	"Sting like a bee" champion
	Gum ball
	Sony rival
	Bit of butter
	Castaway's call
	Mighty mite
	Portuguese money
	Suffix with correspond
	Client
	Unit of radio frequency: Abbr.
	Zone
	"Savvy?"
	Poet Pound
	ЧЧ Diamond
	Diamonds, in slang
	Applaud
	Children's game
	Kind of closet
	Taco sauce
	Understand
	Amherst school, for short
	More crafty
<DOWN>
	Sis or bro
	Scout unit
	Parent, e.g.
	Went in
	Letterman's Stupid ЧЧ Tricks
	Nut for a nutcracker
	Plant louse
	Intricate problems
	Long time 
	Matamoros Mrs.
	Nick and Nora's pooch
	Coalition
	Mao's domain
	Lachrymose
	Aperture
	Spring nymph
	Lone Ranger's pal
	Hawkeye State
	Canal site
	Gardner's stories
	Single
	"It's ЧЧ way"
	It's between Alta. and Man.
	John ЧЧ Passos
	The M of "M.E."
	One means of payment
	With bounteousness
	Shades
	Unfolds
	Gaggle members
	Steak order
	Church niche
	Actor Gulager
	Not her
	Road curve
	Mercury or Saturn