<ACROSS PUZZLE>
<TITLE>
	Thursday, December 22, 1994
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<SIZE>
	15x15
<GRID>
	MACE..SOAP.SMA.
	IRON.PARSI.LASS
	FIRSTOFTHEMONTH
	FAN.ALAS.DIETER
	..ICIER.AMA.URE
	SECONDINCOMMAND
	AVERT..OMNIA...
	MESS.BERET.NMEX
	...ECLAT..SCORE
	BEETHOVENSTHIRD
	ATE.OWE.ALIAS..
	SCLERO.ASOF.TUN
	THEFOURTHOFJULY
	EERO.TIEUP.ARNE
	.SYR.SANA..BEAT
<ACROSS>
	Mugger subduer
	Bathday cake?
	Like a bairn
	Press 
	Zoroastrian
	Miss 
	M
	Aficionado
	Word of woe
	Calorie counter
	Less cordial
	Palindromic org.
	Actress Mary
	O
	Circumvent
	ЧЧ mutantur (all things change)
	Group meal
	Green ЧЧ
	Neighbor of Ariz.
	Dazzling effect
	Arrange for orchestra
	E
	Downed
	See red?
	A k a
	Hard: Prefix
	Date-setting phrase
	Cask
	Y
	Eliel's son
	Jam
	"Judith" composer
	Neighbor of Isr.
	Yemen's capital
	Pooped
<DOWN>
	Upset
	"Un bel di," for one
	Wall moldings
	Printer's dashes
	Game hunter's trip
	Table scraps
	Timber wood
	Former airline
	Fizz flavor 
	Virgil's birthplace
	Backward
	Propelled a punt
	Tatter
	Sully
	Dolphins' home
	Constrict
	Climber's goal
	Notable uncle
	First lady
	Paraguayan compass point
	Region of Spain, with "La"
	Elaborate affairs
	Overhang
	Dew
	Misdo
	Crossed out
	Brazilian dance band
	Unbending
	Thrash
	Emulates Durer
	Sniggler's spot
	1955 Belmont Stakes winner
	One-master
	ЧЧ effort
	"ЧЧ o'clock scholar"
	Armbone
	Da's opposite
	Estuary
	Alternative to a hook