USA Today 12/01/00 "EFFORT IS EVERYTHING" By Charles Preston
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a, 1 ,Raisin rum cake
a, 5 ,Alpenstock
a, 10 ,Type of varnish
a, 14 ,Bring home the bacon
a, 15 ,Bridal path 
a, 16 ,Anklebones
a, 17 ,Start of a Vidal Sassoon quote
a, 20 ,On the move
a, 21 ,Scull
a, 22 ,Overindulge
a, 23 ,Make music?
a, 25 ,Fails to let sleeping dogs lie
a, 27 ,More of quote
a, 32 ,Weather word
a, 33 ,Swiss stream
a, 34 ,WranglerÕs requisite
a, 38 ,Behave humanly
a, 39 ,Observations
a, 41 ,Sapporo sash
a, 42 ,Mockup
a, 44 ,He gives oral exams: abbr.
a, 45 ,PansÕ reversal
a, 46 ,More of quote
a, 49 ,Decamp  in an oater
a, 52 ,DufferÕs challenge
a, 53 ,He claimed New Mexico for Spain
a, 54 ,Actor Kilmer
a, 57 ,Dennis the Menace  and his ilk
a, 61 ,End of quote
a, 64 ,Middle Eastern gulf
a, 65 ,Muse of poetry
a, 66 ,Pelvic bones
a, 67 ,Rents
a, 68 ,To the point
a, 69 ,Brooding place
d, 1 ,Type of test
d, 2 ,Exclamations of delight
d, 3 ,A Maverick
d, 4 ,Fireplace dog
d, 5 ,Pouchlike structure
d, 6 ,Former Yugoslavian dictator
d, 7 ,KatmanduÕs place
d, 8 ,Sort of arrangement
d, 9 ,Muskeg
d, 10 ,Soccer forward
d, 11 ,Tariff Act cosponsor
d, 12 ,Put in sync
d, 13 ,Faces the day
d, 18 ,TeheranÕs place
d, 19 ,Bananalike plants of the Philippines
d, 24 ,What 32 Across does
d, 26 ,Seals ˆ la Poe
d, 27 ,Very  in Versailles
d, 28 ,Listen closely
d, 29 ,Hibernia
d, 30 ,Jabber
d, 31 ,JoyÕs companion
d, 35 ,Lytton heroine
d, 36 ,CamelÕs hair fabrics
d, 37 ,TradersÕ advantages
d, 39 ,Parrots
d, 40 ,Madison Ave. offerings
d, 43 ,Twenty
d, 45 ,Plant the bulbs?
d, 47 ,Patriot Paul
d, 48 ,Good Hope  e.g.
d, 49 ,Outspoken
d, 50 ,Battery terminal
d, 51 , American Buffalo  playwright
d, 55 ,At a distance
d, 56 ,BuildersÕ buys
d, 58 ,Foot part
d, 59 ,Speaker  of baseball
d, 60 ,Card game for three
d, 62 ,Take the odds
d, 63 ,Shad delicacy