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NY TIMES, SAT, JAN 24, 1998

January 24, 1998•Saturday

Creator

Randolph Ross

Editor

Will Shortz

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1Comedian
7More than one mouse
14Madonna's "La Isla ___"
15Obsolescent eatery
16Surveyor's assistant
17Sweetie
18Starting cryptogram guess, maybe
19Stylish Big Apple restaurant
21Idaho's ___ Falls
22Grieved
24Race horse
25Pacific ___
26End of ___
28Cattle genus
29What Henry VIII wanted
30Extreme paucity
34Baby food
37Spread
38Start of a Shakespearean title
40Modern art
41Sealy rival
42Diatonic scale member
43Soul
45Suit material?
46Shoving match?
48Cynics' replies
50Prince of Broadway
51Clown fish
53Carol Burnett character
55Barbecue accessory
56Lawn-care products brand
57Literature
58Paroxysms

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1___ bosom (heaven)
2One of the Zappas
3University worry
4Scrooge portrayer, 1951
5Library card catalogue abbr.
6Incurred
7Velouté made with chicken stock
8More a celebrity
9Señor suffix
10100, I.Q.-wise
11He sat on the Chrysanthemum Throne for 62 years
12Kind of bread
13Angers
17Football defense groups
20Post subject
23Prelims
27Chérie, e.g.
29Closet
31Time abroad
32Computer capacity, slangily
33Farm sounds
35Break
36Like a straphanger
38Go at
39Passenger area
43"Fort Apache, the Bronx" actor
44"Give it ___!"
47Skip
49Very
52Suffix with Capri
54Part of Scand.
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