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NY TIMES, MON, JAN 05, 1998

January 5, 1998•Monday

Creator

Mark Moldowsky

Editor

Will Shortz

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1Birthplace of Columbus
6Doesn't exist
10Dog-paddle, say
14Baking chambers
15Headline
16"___ you don't!"
17What the jury does after deliberating
20Poker starter
21Small and weak
22Swearing to tell the truth, and others
23The highest degree
24Perjured oneself
25Facility
26Sleuth, informally
27Not real
29Michael Douglas, to Kirk
32Heavenly hunter
35Passes easily
36Knight's wife, in olden times
37Legal reach, metaphorically
40Actress Lanchester
41"___ Misbehavin'"
42Siskel's partner
43Wreak vengeance on
44Chicken style
45Big blast maker
46Biblical garden
48Cash substitutes
50Test-___ treaty
53A Beatle
55It's clicked on a computer
56Vigor
57Judge's cry
60Thirteen popes
61Toward shelter, nautically
62Word with ear or peace
63Dict. items
64Antidrinking org.
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1Tennis star Ivanisevic
2News basis
3Under, in poetry
4A single time
5Baseball bat wood
6Philately offering
7Awaits sentencing
8Dark blue
9Number of coins in an Italian fountain
10Ice cream drinks
11January store happening
12Distance between belt notches, maybe
13Witty sayings
18Like the "Iliad" and "Odyssey"
19Wander
24Songstress Horne
25Sunrise direction
26Ceremonial gown
28Bulk
30"Rubáiyát" poet
31Salamander
32Designer Cassini
33Part to play
34Rather than
35Gallic girlfriend
36Money owed
38Reason for postponement
39Egg producers
44Critic Walter
45Composer's output
47Chemise
49Marveled aloud
50Shoe designer Magli
51Broadcast
52___ Dame
53Auctioned off
54Shade giver
55"To Live and Die ___" ('85 film)
56West German capital
58"___ shocked!"
59Spy org.
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