Thanks, Mom: Tit for Tat!

by Kenneth Luker

     
       
       
       
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A.   Anti-AIDS aids? (hyph)

B.   Gulf current concern

C.   Tile stickum

D.   Denuded

E.   Poke into

F.   Operation

G.   Scowls

H.   Defrauds completely

I.   Baseball ruckus

J.   Scare

K.   Edison death-product

L.   Gustatorially pleasant

M.   Cad

N.   Takes out

O.   Tzu Hsi, after 1861

P.   Poor-fare?

Q.   Short messages

R.   Mess (with)

S.   Undeliverable mail

T.   Protective sheath

U.   Printer`s aid

V.   Powerlessness

W.   Literary genre

X.   Off-centered

Y.   Deprive of all resources

Z.   None (with "a")

AA.   Young movers and shakers

AB.   Rose seed-pods

AC.   Name name

AD.   Not recoverable, perhaps

AE.   Blew up, in a way

AF.   A bird on the ground, for example.