Fessing up

by Phelps Gates

           
           
       
         
     
       
           
         
         
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A.   Hindu Festival of Lights

B.   Oldsmobile first featured this innovation in their
1940 models (2 wds)

C.   1961 film and later TV series about a nuclear submarine
(7 wds)

D.   in letters

E.   inherited privilege

F.   filled with reverence, respect, and dread

G.   fifteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet

H.   tiffs

I.   Jack Nicholson quote from a 1992 film (5 wds)

J.   "The automotive capital of Canada"

K.   often humorous emphatic negation

L.   American author (1914-97) or his author son (1947-81)

M.   defeat in a game or sport

N.   tool for cutting wood with the grain

O.   Nixon described himself as a dropout from this after
flunking debating (2 wds)

P.   deny responsibility for

Q.   prone to eructation

R.   1946 duet by Irving Berlin (8 wds)

S.   covered with bryophytes

T.  
tendency to return to original shape after deformation

U.   symbol for element 14