Expensive futility

by Frank Podosek

     
       
       
       
     
       
     
       
       
     
       
         
         
         
       
           
       
       
       
         
       
           
                                     

A.   A major outsourcing destination

B.   Peculiarity

C.   Tear gas

D.   Trousers worn under a skirt

E.   Wavelike movements caused by muscular contractions

F.   Spiritual

G.   Those who are baroned and earled, according to Gilbert
and Sullivan

H.   Sliding rope loop

I.   Catch phrase from the "Terminator" movies (3)

J.   Disease transmitted by the tsetse fly

K.   Old man

L.   Symbol of a protracted but generally futile endeavor
(e.g. Word AG) (3)

M.   Cooked eggs, commonly with other ingredients

N.   "Grasp the ______": Deal decisively with an unpleasant
or painful situation

O.   Large sea bird

P.   Switch position

Q.   Owning a commodity or security (contrasting with
owing a commodity or security)

R.   Eating heartily

S.   Coarse, loosely-woven gauze

T.   Defy gravity

U.   Color seen through another color

V.   Where you can change into your swimsuit

W.   She played Titania in the 1999 movie "A Midsummer
Night`s Dream"

X.   Lottery

Y.   Do it again

Z.   Horse that became famous for his mathematical abilities
(2)

AA.   Type of granary

AB.   Team that plays in Safeco Field (since 1999) (2)

AC.   Increase scope, power or influence

AD.   Describing apparent backward motion across the sky

AE.   Attraction between oppositely charged ions in a
crystal (2)

AF.   Asian capital whose name derives from the phrase
"red hero" (2)

AG.   A device which violates the laws of thermodynamics
(and an example of Word L) (3)

AH.   Lustrous

AI.   Ornamental plant of genus Zantedeschia (2)

AJ.   Part of the route to grandmother`s house (3)

AK.   Extent

AL.   Highbrow

AM.   Accidental good fortune

AN.   Joint x-ray

AO.   Marko Ramius` submarine (2)

AP.   "With Six You Get _____", 1968 Doris Day movie (2)

AQ.   Common regulator for flow of liquid or gas (2)

AR.   Distinction

AS.   Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? (3)

AT.   Barbershop quartet staple, written by Tell Taylor
in 1910 (6)

AU.   Past one`s prime (3)

AV.   Bing Crosby song and movie (2)

AW.   Drug which is a remedy for grief