Progress may not be all bad

by Frank Podosek

             
     
       
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A.   Source of quote: "You can lead a whore to culture
...." (full name)

B.   Displaying religious/cultural bias

C.   Expansionist policy (2)

D.   A place to remove impurities in pig iron (3)

E.   Source of quote: "... the second time ... there
has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor" (full name)

F.   Assertion that deity endorses monarchy (2)

G.   Disputing (2)

H.   Punjab industrial center

I.   It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian
ink (4)

J.   Visionary

K.   In the world of chowder, it`s not Manhattan (2)

L.   Tale in which Jabez Wilson is hired to copy the
Encyclopedia Brittanica longhand (3)

M.   Hydrocarbon, molecular weight 30

N.   Source of information in Baton Rouge, Fort Wayne,
Youngstown and other locations (2)

O.   In English it would be "man from new man valley"

P.   Formerly NBS

Q.   Home of the Senators

R.   Game associated with croquet in the Borough of Merton
(2)

S.   Supplants

T.   Cosmetic pigmentation agent involving lead and sulfur
(3)

U.   Complement to pitch and roll

V.   Skillful

W.   Miscellany (3)

X.   Clarke novel

Y.   Instructor-in-training

Z.   A type of gate that inverts input

AA.   Shakespearean statement that even though it`s bad
enough it`s not as bad as it could be (13)

AB.   The one closest to hand

AC.   Stupid

AD.   Joins

AE.   Hand, especially clenched

AF.   Important factor in the Cold War

AG.   Escorts

AH.   Film featuring Br`er Rabbit (4)

AI.   His Other Woman in the US (2)

AJ.   Opening

AK.   Source of quote: "No woman can be too rich or too
thin" (full name)

AL.   Spider nests

AM.   Fig marigold (2)

AN.   It will get you out (2)

AO.   They follow the bowl (2)

AP.   Those of low estate

AQ.   Ponderous

AR.   Summer torpidly

AS.   Sweltering

AT.   Type of annelid

AU.   Disquieting

AV.   UK academic position

AW.   Attila the Hen? (Full name)

AX.   Controversial school (3)

AY.   Despite

BZ.   Frumpery

.   Apprehensive but compassionate network? (3)

.   Performance venue without proscenium (4)

.   Condiments (2)

.   Brought about

.   Refusal of local government to recognize national
statutes

.   Momentous

.   Rogers` request (5)

.   Cactus pollinator (2)

.   True-color

.   Bankers

.   Awkward situation (3)

.   Bunyan allegory (3)

.   Bidirectionally communicative

.   US breadbasket (2)

.   Culture-descriptive

.   The Cradle of the Automobile?