USA Today 12/10/99 "HACKNEYED SIMILES" By Charles Preston
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a, 1 ,Liturgical rite
a, 5 ,Lament for the dead
a, 10 ,Collar
a, 13 ,Preoccupied with
a, 14 ,Street show
a, 15 ,Universal destruction: abbr.
a, 17 ,Recalcitrant
a, 20 ,White metal
a, 21 ,Amendment document
a, 22 ,1945 conference center
a, 23 ,Bursa
a, 24 ,French composer  and family
a, 25 ,Loony
a, 31 ,Athletic tracks
a, 32 ,Assumed name
a, 33 ,Kind of top
a, 34 ,Koran religion
a, 35 ,Thin cover
a, 39 ,Wintry weather
a, 40 ,Thick soup
a, 41 ,Full of guile
a, 46 ,Core groups
a, 47 ,Terminus
a, 48 ,Hunter constellation
a, 49 ,Prize
a, 52 ,Chinese philosophy
a, 55 ,Ostentatious
a, 58 ,Aggregates
a, 59 ,Coat material
a, 60 ,Code word
a, 61 ,CA time
a, 62 ,Nuptials principal
a, 63 ,British title of rank
d, 1 ,Haze
d, 2 ,Not pro
d, 3 ,Confound
d, 4 ,Express emotion
d, 5 ,Beethoven's    Third   
d, 6 ,Cooking fat
d, 7 ,Sea bird
d, 8 ,Equipment
d, 9 ,Assenting word
d, 10 ,Football Hall-of-Famer
d, 11 ,Region of southeast Italy
d, 12 ,Runaway
d, 16 ,Call a halt
d, 18 ,Orchestral section
d, 19 ,Indian nursemaids
d, 23 ,Polio eradicator
d, 24 ,Fraud
d, 25 ,Witty remark
d, 26 ,Hummingbird
d, 27 ,Rather  for one
d, 28 ,Wave amplifier
d, 29 ,Cat habitat
d, 30 ,Lariat
d, 34 ,Small land masses: Fr.
d, 35 ,Pay for
d, 36 ,Wrath
d, 37 ,Poe's    Annabel____   
d, 38 ,Actor Gibson
d, 39 ,Use up
d, 40 ,Bamboo eater
d, 41 ,Old English poets
d, 42 ,Thrash
d, 43 ,Speech mannerisms
d, 44 ,French novelist
d, 45 ,Tranquil
d, 49 ,Hebrew instrument
d, 50 ,Dry riverbed
d, 51 ,Mimicked
d, 52 ,Antelope
d, 53 ,Scored significantly
d, 54 ,Find satisfactory
d, 56 ,Priest's garment
d, 57 ,Coolidge or Ripken