Never a cross word

by Phelps Gates

         
           
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A.   indication of online hilarity

B.   "that did __ the air at Agincourt"

C.   made (a neighborhood) more upscale

D.   crossword constructor who was a guest on The Simpsons
(2 wds)

E.   remote (4 wds)

F.   Boston suburb; crossing of two obscure words in
a crossword

G.   see clue R

H.   rock band (Sweet Home Alabama; 2 wds)

I.   inventor of the Double-Crostic (TM) (2 wds)

J.   where the film District 9 was shot

K.   any of several aromatic wetland plants (2 wds)

L.   a group of larks

M.   1948 hit for Tex Ritter (2 wds)

N.   Kanga offspring

O.   military camp detached from the main body

P.   German film studio

Q.   English playwright (1580-1627, 2 wds)

R.   followed by G, October 6 in Joyce`s Dublin

S.   annoying

T.   "The ___": publication of National Puzzlers` League

U.   former editor of Games magazine

V.   the subject of the quotation

W.   traditional location of mail order catalogs

X.   Austrian-born musical comedy composer

Y.   likely to founder

Z.   Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe (2 wds)

AA.   "The ___": Gogol short story