I`ll pass

by Phelps Gates

       
     
         
         
         
         
       
       
           
                       

A.   thoroughgoing (hyph.)

B.   occupational lung disease

C.   low-tech midwifery (2 wds)

D.   highest-grossing musical of 1948 (2 wds)

E.   made less eager

F.   what`s left on the cutting room floor

G.   corpulence

H.   Il Palio horserace site

I.   throws

J.   jinx

K.   Hornblower`s second ship

L.   Kuwait, for example

M.   "___, the piper`s son" (2 wds)

N.   site of the Gotham Stakes

O.   Larry or Curly, for example

P.   Russian novelist (1818-83)

Q.   stressing personal conversion and Biblical inerrancy

R.   boxed

S.   like Joe Btfsplk (3 wds)

T.   laborer (Brit. slang)

U.   like Quincy Magoo

V.   called (archaic and jocular)