Keep those cards and letters coming

by Phelps Gates

       
           
       
     
       
       
       
       
       
       
           
   
                 

A.   former Sacramento ballplayer

B.   gift to younger children of royals

C.   rogue, scamp

D.   lexicographer, to Johnson (3 wds)

E.   eater of a Christmas pie

F.   back of the head

G.   work for a sexton? (2 wds)

H.   instrument often used to damage refrigerators

I.   aquatic birds, order Gaviiformes

J.   scram

K.   where you get a shot (2 wds)

L.   this failed because of lack of ratification on June
30, 1982 (3 wds)

M.   "too very very to be in ___" (Mercer; 2 wds)

N.   responsive to suggestion or persuasion (hyph.)

O.   editor of the second OED Supplement (2 wds)

P.   occur to (2 wds)

Q.   not bad (hyph.)

R.   frank, candid

S.   sennets

T.   what nobody expects! (Monty Python, 3 wds)

U.   first editor of what became the OED (2 wds)

V.   heavyweight boxing champion 1949-51 (2 wds)

W.   unarmed

X.   stare down, defeat by bold confrontation

Y.   hard cheese, originally from sheep

Z.   sheriff or marshall, for example

AA.   karate hall