Oops!

by Phelps Gates

         
   
     
     
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A.   laughing gas (colloq.)

B.   once-thriving center of steel production in Ohio

C.   Wagner opera, premiered 1876 (4 wds)

D.   on the spot

E.   title characters of a Wagner opera

F.   without bias

G.   option first offered on the 1937 Nash

H.   totalled (3 wds)

I.   pity, compassion

J.   steal

K.   Lyle Lovett song (5 wds)

L.   hermit of Lindisfarne, the patron saint of northern
England (634-687)

M.   flashy

N.   American singer, scandalously divorced in 1959 (2
wds)

O.   The Marriage of Figaro, for example (2 wds)

P.   source of the hallucinogen myristicin

Q.   gold coin first minted in 1640 France

R.   specialist in root canals

S.   any of several midwestern towns (2 wds); tree or
shrub of the genus Asimina (1 wd)

T.   1876 Wagner composition that premiered in Philadelphia
(3 wds)

U.   Centralia, Pennsylvania, or Calico, California (2
wds)

V.   encouraged (often to a nefarious deed; 2 wds)

W.   song cycle by Wagner (2 wds)

X.   pertaining to natural instinctive desires

Y.   1931 song often played on the accordion: a big hit
for N (3 wds)

Z.   Tracy or Margot

AA.   outdoor drama staged in Cherokee, North Carolina
(3 wds)

AB.   adapt to a changed environment

AC.   what the event described in the quote was