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NY TIMES, TUE, JAN 20, 1998

January 20, 1998•Tuesday

Creator

Randall J. Hartman

Editor

Will Shortz

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1Literary lioness
5Open a crack
9Seeing red
14Painter of limp watches
15Rational
16Elicit
17Road, for Romulus
18Signs
19"Drove my Chevy to the ___..." (1972 lyric)
201991 feminist movie
23Old photo
24Skin layer
25Radical 60's org.
28For the taking
30Give a licking
314:00, in Kent
32300-pound President
35Dog's drink, or resting spot
37Bikini alternative
39Cousin of the English horn
40Work, as dough
43Approximately
44Valerie Harper series
46"Much ___ About Nothing"
47Certain grains
48It thickens the plot
49Snowball in "Animal Farm"
52Rounds, say
54Mythical monster
55Eye opener
57Balance sheet plus
61Cartoon magpies
64Reluctant
66Zeno's home
67Takes care of the squeaky wheel
68Come together
69Armed Forces option
70Sunburn woe
71It's all in the family
72Fires
73Ferber of "Show Boat"

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1Blue-pencils
2Shop tool
3Result of counting sheep
4Delivered by a Huey Cobra
5Home of 3.5 billion
6"Surf City" singers, 1963
7It's just over a foot
8Martha's Vineyard, in the summer
9Trustful
10Singer Burl
1141-week best seller, 1970-71
12Barely manage, with "out"
13Gidget portrayer Sandra
21Deface
22Actress Thurman
26Thickheaded
27Powdered starches
29Lodge member
32Common sculpture
33Hate
34Ecological succession
36Princess tormentor
38Some check it daily
41Early outcasts
42Suffix with star or tsar
45Side in many a western
50Type
51Lead ore
53Screen siren West
56"Chill!"
58Went down a slope
59"Sea of Love" star Barkin
60Physicist Nikola
62"___, Brute!"
63Noisy birds
64Blockhead
65Early afternoon
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