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NY TIMES, SAT, JAN 17, 1998

January 17, 1998•Saturday

Creator

Rich Norris

Editor

Will Shortz

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1Some required reading
9They might raise quarters
15Accumulated
16Kitchen gadgets
17Sophocles work
18Minister, at times
19Weapons prog. since 1983
20Noted adviser
22Moved, nautically speaking
24Cultivate
25Those, to Tomás
26Clears
28Where the Gurkha reigned
30Chinchilla, for one
32Abject
34Let go
3550's FireFlite
38Violent, perhaps
40Rock blasters?
41More than uncooperative
45Crude meas.
46Put on a new staff
47"No way!"
50Provoked response
52Euterpe, e.g.
54Unique
56"All About Eve" actress
59Rope used in sailing
60Organ stop
61Result of plotting, perhaps
63One who hoots
64Disney Studios employee
65Least common
66Quit

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1Market problem
2"I Was a Teen-Age Werewolf" star, 1957
3Kind of ingredient
4Word with bum or bunny
5Sonic the Hedgehog maker
6"___ Wanna Cry," 1991 #1 song
7Art
8Spoke literally?
9Created a web site?
10Bach contemporary
11Old Dodge
12Modify equipment, in a way
13Urgency
14Abbr. on old maps
21Food for Fido
23Community spirit
27Met
29Uttar Pradesh city
31River to the Mississippi
33Protuberance
34"Porky"
35Apply gently
36Adopted
37Set, in a way
39Genetic stuff
4219th-century educator Willard
43Slip
44Flash
46"Speed" actor
48Completely
49Proceed so as to avoid radar detection
51Hunting device
53Like a Dean Koontz novel
55Long
57One of the Bobbsey twins
58Garage feature
60Eye, in Iberia
62Ill-done
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