A spelling test?

by Phelps Gates

         
       
           
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A.   destructive to both sides (e.g. warfare)

B.   anodyne

C.   denounced, reported the misdeeds of (2 wds)

D.   like the second `a` in `athalete`

E.   protected against lightning

F.   1980 British film starring Petula Clark; 1971 album
by the Pink Fairies (3 wds)

G.   period from high water to low water (2 wds)

H.   sawbucks

I.   document entirely in its author`s handwriting

J.   shade (obs.); offense

K.   Amish, for example

L.   drowsy, yawning

M.   second place finishers (2 wds)

N.   ultimogeniture, esp. in medieval Nottingham (hyph.)

O.   incidental remarks (2 wds)

P.   a headless fetus

Q.   rapidly recited (2 wds)

R.   former dock district of London, where Marlowe was
killed and Raleigh spread his cloak for the queen

S.   US meterorologist and physicist, the eponym of a
glacier near Juneau

T.   aversion to work, pathological laziness

U.   expressed scorn with loud nasal breathing

V.   certain endangered strigiforms (2 wds)

W.   the dogs kids love to bite (2 wds)

X.   incendiary device used in ancient war (2 wds)

Y.   pleasant to embrace (rare)