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NY TIMES, THU, JAN 29, 1998

January 29, 1998•Thursday

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Frances Hansen

Editor

Will Shortz

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1Platters
6Waveless
10Bidder's option
14"Racy" neckwear
15Rink jump
16District
17President who married in office
20Kind of control
21Military acronym
22What you stand to lose?
24Erwin of 50's TV
25Group of whales
27Dug into
28Beckett award
30"The African Queen" writer
33Swift boats
35Tin Pan Alley org.
361962 Robert Frost collection
41Fungus, in Falmouth
42Hearty entree
441997 Masters winner
49Mistress in a Thomas Mann novel
50Photographer's abbr.
51"Brat Farrar" mystery writer
52"Rocks"
54Be worthwhile
55In agreement
57Relative of 14-Across
59C.I.A. undertaking
64Salt Lake City players
65Word said with a tear
66Canio's wife in "Pagliacci"
67Larboard
68Vanquish
69Down at the heels

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1First name at the U.N., 1953-61
2Neighbor of Syr.
3Stinger
4Sheltered nook
5Dams up
6Prickly pear, e.g.
7Car bar
8Nautical side
9XI years before the Battle of Hastings
10___ Alto
11Mountain whose name means "holy ground"
12Ratifying body
13Not so sunny
18College org.
19Makes beloved
22Chop off
23Archeological shelter
25Assert
26Bo Derek's whale of a film
29Words on a Wonderland cake
311996 Masters winner
32Thick-coated dog
34More succinct
37World chess champ, 1935-37
38Pall
39Sea current
40Where Samson ground meal
43King Arthur's foster brother
44China piece
45Entirely
46Mandela portrayer in a 1987 film
47Most dreadful
48Dueling memento, maybe
53Editor Harold
56"___-ce pas?"
57Their days are numbered
58To ___ (exactly)
60Bar bill
61Cheer for Escamillo
62Outlandish
63Dissenting vote
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