Too good to be true?

by Phelps Gates

     
       
       
       
     
       
       
       
       
         
           

A.   delinquent

B.   meriting press coverage

C.   longest-serving Prime Minister in the Fifth Republic

D.   one who aids a criminal to escape justice (4 wds)

E.   particle with mass of 273 electrons

F.   epicene

G.   entity that propagates by reverse transcription

H.   where the Joad family enters California

I.   jail

J.   standard, touchstone, benchmark

K.   pawnbroker

L.   reside in

M.   Vayikra

N.   result

O.   clever

P.   member of a desert tribe

Q.   Fred MacMurray in a 1961 film (2 wds, 1 hyph.)

R.   actor: title role of Johnny Guitar (2 wds)

S.   B.A. or B.S., for example

T.   like 2, 4, 6, 8 . . .

U.   on a single occasion (e.g. an expense)

V.   learned

W.   song from West Side Story