Ruffled Aprons

by Judy Miller

     
         
         
           
     
         
       
         
       
       
         
       
       
           
         
     
           
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A.   Fifties fad: ___ stuffing (2)

B.   Feel for (2)

C.   Crud

D.   Chaucer`s "Wyf of ___"

E.   Furniture featuring a tambour (2)

F.   Delayed reaction

G.   Airport feature (2)

H.   Game show panelist who also sang with the Metropolitan
Opera and was a 1991 National Medal of Arts awardee (2)

I.   Swamp

J.   Book of Daniel dreamer

K.   Della`s Christmas gift to Jim (he gave her combs)

L.   Font resembling the upright script taught to French
schoolchildren

M.   Chose

N.   Provisional

O.   St. Clement`s Cross shape, referring to the way
he was martyred

P.   Bow out

Q.   Eric Clapton`s only #1 hit song in the U.S. (4)

R.   Japan`s All ___ Airways

S.   Discharge

T.   "The ___ of beauty is suspect, a crow that flies
in heaven’s sweetest air" (Shakespeare)

U.  
"___: A Compendium of Victorian Crafts & Other Matters"

V.   Rugby ref`s call

W.  
Product announced prematurely to gain market advantage

X.   William`s "The Conqueror," e.g.

Y.   One of Theodor Geisel`s pen names (2)

Z.   Central staging (hyph)

AA.   Meager (hyph)

AB.   It`s only a test (3)

AC.   Imprudent, in a way (hyph)

AD.   Advair deliverer

AE.   Fancied

AF.   They pack more punch

AG.   Early Webber/Rice: "Joseph and the ___"(3)

AH.   Got the wrong idea

AI.   Air

AJ.   Caved in

AK.   One result of retinitis pigmentosa (2)

AL.   Warp direction

AM.   Processed uranium

AN.   Jacob Zuma`s party (3)

AO.   Parody of a popular TV series that starred Sarah
Michelle Gellar, 1997-2003 (5)

AP.   Eric Schlosser`s "___: The Dark Side of the All-American
Meal" (3)

AQ.   Unimaginative

AR.   Charles II tried to suppress them, as "places where
the disaffected met"

AS.   Form of mis(sed)communication (2)

AT.   Shell or rind, e.g.

AU.   Oddball (hyph)

AV.   Bane of Homer`s existence (2)

AW.   Domineering

AX.   "___: The Peoples of God" (2)

AY.   Cut-off point for many shows that don`t make it (2)

BZ.   Henson portmanteau

.   Traveling mass in the circulatory system

.   Garbo role, 1931 (2)

.   Waterston role, 1980

.   Laid up

.   In the act (hyph)