The perils of rank

by Phelps Gates

     
       
       
         
             
       
       
         
       
                   

A.   wool cloth made from tightly twisted yarn

B.   betroth

C.   they do it, according to Cole Porter

D.   police baton in Britain, once

E.   toothless

F.   spur wheel

G.   Petri Hawkins-Byrd, to Judge Judy

H.   stingy

I.   long-billed wader, genus Limosa

J.   unending time

K.   season for gathering (2 wds)

L.   someplace else

M.   three-legged stand, usually of metal

N.   democratic political reformer in 19th century Britain

O.   like the Deepwater Horizon

P.   the soul, in Jewish theology

Q.   stuff, crowd (obs.)

R.   coastal area of SE Virginia and NE North Carolina

S.   spotless

T.   Circe or Calpyso

U.   violent disruption

V.   delicious

W.   ersatz

X.   condition of Zippy the Pinhead

Y.   foreign