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NY TIMES, FRI, JAN 30, 1998

January 30, 1998•Friday

Creator

Martin Ashwood-Smith

Editor

Will Shortz

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1Warplane's cargo
16Predictable type
17West pointers, at times
18Doom
19___ Altos, Calif.
20Clamped securely
21Extra effort, for short
22Pack leader, in Cub Scouts
24Kind of cabinet
27Law breakers, of a kind
31Hot time in Québec
32Not on ___
34Do-re-mi
35Double standard?
36Palindromist's principle
38Pay cut
39Checked items
41"Intolerance" actress
42Jasmine, for one
43Derides
46Blue-pencils
48Big name in oil
49Opposite of bellum
50Classical lyric poem
52Done, to Donne
53Popular cooking spray
56Many a lawyer's office
60Loaded, so to speak
61Capitol Hill prizes

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1Ne plus ultra
2Modern Media
3Officially listed: Abbr.
4Sun shade
5Opera set in Cyprus
6Dictator
7Bit of eye makeup
8Remote button
9Day of the week: Abbr.
10In song, words before "a wiz there was"
11"The Last of ___" (1973 whodunit)
12Pathetically inept person
13Suffix with deduct
14Made yarns
15Orly connections?
21A discouraging word
22Convenience provider
23Swallow-tailed birds
24They often get plastered
25Davenport denizen
26"And I ___..."
28Like many inscriptions
29Spiral-horned animal
30Arouses, with "up"
33Sired
37Classic Steinbeck story
40Guitarist Andrés
42Trouble
44Blue-pencil
45Prefix with scope
47Noted shoe saver
50Gael's tongue
51Weaver's bobbin
52Oceanic threat
53Council site of 1409
54___ above
55Dump
56___ seul (dance solo)
57Place for a plug
5823d of a series
59"Fore" site
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