<ACROSS PUZZLE>
<TITLE>
	Thursday, December 29, 1994
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<COPYRIGHT>
	
<SIZE>
	15x15
<GRID>
	PLETHORA.FASTER
	HIGHERUP.INWARD
	DEGRADES.GNEISS
	...ODE.ESTELLE.
	FLOWERS.URAL...
	LEB.RELABEL.PIA
	OGEE.DARJEELING
	PURLS.NEE.DANCE
	SMOKESTACK.COHN
	YEN.QUILTER.LET
	...CUBE.SEERESS
	.SCHIRRA.NBA...
	MARINO.CLEAVAGE
	AGATES.HASTENED
	RAMADA.EXTENDED
<ACROSS>
	Overabundance
	More expeditious
	Superior
	Secret
	Corrupts 
	Granitelike rock
	Poetic tribute
	Actress Winwood
	They're usually found in beds
	Orsk's river
	Isr. neighbor
	Change the sticker
	Newscaster Lindstrom
	S-shaped molding
	City with a view of Mt. Everest
	Some stitches
	Wedding column word
	Ball
	Factory feature
	Lawyer Roy
	Appetite
	Sewing machine attachment
	Warrant
	Cut into kabobs
	Prophet
	Apollo 7 astronaut
	Jazz org.
	It follows San or Dan
	Splitting
	Some chalcedonies
	Made tracks
	Holiday Inn alternative
	Longer
<DOWN>
	Advanced deg.
	Canard
	Object of a hunt
	Afghan
	Soccer maneuver
	Sequential
	Paris's ЧЧ La Fayette
	It's behind the altar
	Legendary leaf source
	Heated, as glass
	Balloon
	Follow
	Gaelic
	Rural rtes.
	Vassalry
	Beatrix Potter character
	Pea, e.g.
	Moon of Uranus
	More oblique, colloquially
	Of a particular locale
	Corn flour
	Moves at a snail's pace
	Proxies
	Wapiti
	Resin
	Glittery, as a gown
	Confidentially
	Most enthusiastic
	Sale incentive
	Dancer-actress Rivera
	"Rapper" of verse
	Tale of derring-do, e.g.
	Study feverishly
	Yearn
	Deface
	Undisciplined
	The Beatles' "ЧЧ I Love Her"
	Thousand, to a yegg
	Actor Byrnes