A Vast Menagerie, Part 1

by Judy Miller

         
         
         
         
         
           
     
         
       
         
       
       
       
         
       
       
         
           
       
     
           
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A.   Reason for a trip to the dentist (2)

B.   Sworn statement

C.   Sent warning via the dispatcher (2)

D.   Like many gymnasts

E.   Online map option

F.   Special interest of Ilya Mechnikov, winner of a
Nobel Prize for his work on phagocytosis (2)

G.   Frank Costello, e.g.

H.   Manhattan`s "fashionable road" (2)

I.   Like Kenya, e.g.

J.   #17 of 24

K.   Known as Elijah`s Manna in the early 1900s (2)

L.   Adapted; adjusted

M.   Theologian Niebuhr

N.   Like Typhoid Mary

O.   Lacking vision

P.   Real-time communication (2)

Q.   Eighteenth-century movement (2)

R.   Fluent

S.   Squeeze into

T.   Nolan Ryan special (hyph)

U.   2002 film based on Susan Orlean`s "The Orchid Thief"

V.   Produce or bulk aisle aid (2)

W.   Resolute

X.   Strip, sand, seal, and stain

Y.   Specialist in reproductive biology

Z.   West Side Story prop

AA.   One of two "unaccountable freaks; they came in together,
they must go out together" (2)

AB.   Harris Interactive offering (2)

AC.   Trail

AD.   Winnow

AE.   Pittsburgh`s Stephen Foster Music and Heritage Festival
(3)

AF.   Fats Waller hit, 1929 (2)

AG.   Halfway there, for some (2)

AH.   "Golly" (2)

AI.   Natural; uninhibited

AJ.   Heat source

AK.   Maugham masterpiece (3)

AL.   Parent-child connector (2)

AM.   PB and J`s J, often (2)

AN.   Risky venture

AO.   Whitehall craft

AP.   Olympic event where men and women compete against
one another

AQ.   Official

AR.   Jazzy decade (2)

AS.   Missing (hyph)

AT.   Calendar standout (2, 1 hyph)

AU.   Unconventional

AV.   Like James McEvoy, or his character Nicholas Garrigan,
physician to Idi Amin