A Too-Brief Season

by Judy Miller

         
         
       
         
           
         
       
         
         
         
     
         
       
         
         
       
       
         
           
         
         
       
         
         
       
           
                                   

A.   Famous

B.   DDT, e.g.

C.   Pet store buy (2)

D.   Stable storage

E.   What love covers over (1 Peter 4:8) (4)

F.   Rebound

G.   Summertime savings

H.   Islamic religious ruling

I.   1950 film noir starring James Mason (3)

J.   Secondhand fundraiser (2)

K.   Abhor

L.   The general situation or state of affairs (5)

M.   Jed or Jethro, e.g.

N.   Anchor`s segue (4)

O.   Johnny Appleseed`s home state

P.   Start of a mandatory warning (7)

Q.   Attribution used before NPR commentator Ron Rapaport`s
name (2)

R.   Moor

S.   Topple

T.   Lancaster, Pa., college established in 1787 (3)

U.   "The essential pulse of Latin music"

V.   Completely

W.   She was no angel

X.   Iditarod command

Y.   Aubergine

Z.   The only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for
both fiction and poetry (3)

AA.   Summertime forecast

AB.   Bette Davis horror film, 1964 (4)

AC.   Alienated

AD.   ET for Coors: "If you go beyond your limit . . .
___" (2)

AE.   Aretha`s bee word?

AF.   "Don`t cry for me, ___"? (1847) (2)

AG.   Mentally overwhelming (hyph)

AH.   Summertime celebration (2)

AI.   Take care of (2)

AJ.   Reminiscent

AK.   Because of (2)

AL.   Spanakopita ingredient

AM.   Five-hunded mile stretch of the Appalachians (2)

AN.   Summertime command (3)

AO.   Rouse

AP.   Stimulus package?

AQ.   York and Bilko, e.g. (2)

AR.   "First Lady of the World," per Harry Truman (2)

AS.   Start of a wolf`s warning (5)

AT.   Town hall meeting alternative

AU.   Focus of Walter Reed`s research (2)

AV.   Maze

AW.   Like some speeches (hyph)