Be Afraid... Be Very, Very Afraid

by John Kiernan

If you sense a theme here, you`re not wrong

     
       
         
         
         
       
       
         
     
       
       
       
       
       
           
       
       
         
                     

A.   Early American writer, and descendant from one of
the judges of the Salem witch trials (full name)

B.   Unit of energy

C.   Early American writer whose early pseudonym became
slang for "New Yorker" (full name)

D.   River dividing China from North Korea

E.   Sandinista leader

F.   "___ Old Flag" (Johnny Cash song)

G.   Nickname for an inner cabinet

H.   Kennedy friend and biographer Sorenson

I.   Nationality of the Fighting 69th

J.   Infamous Senator from Wisconsin

K.   Young newt

L.   Capra film about Washington politics (4 words)

M.   She had three faces

N.   Declare a knight

O.   "A house divided against ___ cannot stand." (Lincoln)

P.   He was edited by John Adams, among others (full name)

Q.   Army Fort that existed on the Monterey Peninsula
from 1917-1994

R.   Disapproving term used to describe late nineteenth-century
industrialists (2 words)

S.   Chichen ___

T.   Get hooked

U.   American writer who did not cooperate with HUAC
(full name)

V.   Present a dissenting argument

W.   Famous line spoken by the Duke of Gloucester (7
words)

X.   Quaker poet (full name)

Y.   Speak

Z.   A missile has a "self" version

AA.   This brought down Astor

AB.   Attempt

AC.   Line spoken by Joseph Welch to Word J believed to
have started his downfall (7 words)

AD.   Fictional Senator who might not have a chance these
days (2 words)

AE.   "Knowledge will forever govern ___" (James Madison)

AF.   Certain unalienable rights set forth in an important
U.S. document (7 words)

AG.   Playwright of the absurd and ironic (full name)

AH.   Author of "The History of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire" (full name)

AI.   Oregon Senator Wyden

AJ.   Street material in old Boston

AK.   Basis for "The Boys from Syracuse" (4 words)

AL.   There`s a shining one on either side of the U.S.

AM.   Profuse, overflowing