Get out your pen

by Phelps Gates

         
       
       
         
             
         
       
     
         
     
         
                               

A.   scorpion or tick, for example

B.   winner of an honorary Oscar in 1929 (2 wds)

C.   economic theory popular since the 1940`s

D.   spectacular, conspicuous

E.   former Belgian colony

F.   inside information

G.   inscription

H.   Cole Porter song from Fifty Million Frenchmen (5 wds)

I.   irritated, annoyed

J.   clerk in the US Navy

K.   forming friendships of an unapproved nature

L.   fan

M.   weekly BBC magazine (1929-91; 2 wds)

N.   arousing deep sympathy

O.   shogunate capital

P.   Gypsy

Q.   flight

R.   1919 novel by Virginia Woolf (3 wds)

S.   thingamajig

T.   2009 film based on a book by the author of the quotation
(3 wds)

U.   Russian poet, born 1933

V.   followed by X, 1937 Oscar-winning song

W.   scientific description of human cultures

X.   see clue V

Y.   frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person