Puzzle #64

by Jim Sherman

       
         
         
         
           
         
         
       
     
       
           
       
       
         
     
                                         

A.   Shakespeare play (5 wds)

B.   Physical expression of distress

C.   Legit (5 wds)

D.   A boxer between 147 and 167 pounds

E.   Publishers of "The Tatler" and "The Spectator" (3
wds)

F.   Thwarted

G.   Perry Mason`s adversary (2 wds)

H.   Bach`s examination of counterpoint (4 wds with "The")

I.   Robbed a drunk

J.   Chinese leader (b. 1904, d. 1997) (3 wds)

K.   City of Nixon`s birth (2 wds)

L.   Upstart (hyph)

M.   Scrawny

N.   Mann novella (3 wds)

O.   Common gasoline additive

P.   Mencken: "Say what you will about the ten commandments,
you must always come back to the pleasant fact ____" (7 wds)

Q.   Fled (2 wds)

R.   Former Spanish colony (2 wds)

S.   To prevent the passage of

T.   Smuggled

U.   John Wayne movie

V.   Fish once thought to be extinct

W.   Ailing (3 wds)

X.   To return to a former state

Y.   A seismology concern