The new overclass

by Frank Podosek

       
         
       
         
         
   
         
         
       
       
         
     
       
       
     
     
     
       
     
                                           

A.   Edible turtle of the southern US (2)

B.   Play featuring Helena, Bertram and bedroom deception
(5)

C.   Jacqueline Susann novel, later a movie (4)

D.   Princeton think-tank (4)

E.   Turning the polarization of light to the right (or
clockwise)

F.   Scolded

G.   One of a handful of ports that claim to be the world`s
largest

H.   Location of John Wayne Airport (3)

I.   Solar system models

J.   Young children (slang)

K.   Co-denizen of a social organization for collegiate
women (2)

L.   Expert in Soviet/Russian government

M.   It describes itself as "The International Magazine
of Interior Design" (2)

N.   King of England, a leader of the Third Crusade (3,
1 hyph.)

O.   Appeared (massive or threatening)

P.   In short supply (4)

Q.   Grooved (for a bowstring)

R.   What Pontius Pilate said after the scourging (2)

S.   Global

T.   Disfigures

U.   Official general pardon

V.   More pleasant

W.   Conclusion to the poem that begins "Out of the night
that covers me ....." (14)

X.   Metaphorical toponym for British journalism (2)

Y.   Book of the Old Testament, traditionally ascribed
to Solomon

Z.   Where the German fleet was scuttled in 1919 (2)

AA.   Those who spoke of shoes and ships and sealing wax
(5)

AB.   From bad to worse (8)