A source of innocent merriment

by Roger Gabrielson

       
         
       
     
     
         
       
       
         
       
       
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A.   Champion between Sullivan and Fitzsimmons

B.   Film whose protagonist is head of The Psycho-Neurotic
Institute for the Very, Very Nervous (2)

C.   Sour

D.   Dictator overthrown in 1959 (2)

E.   Inlet

F.   First film for which a woman received the Academy
Award for Best Director (3)

G.   Strategic Defense Initiative, informally (2)

H.   Media magnate awarded The Pontifical Equestrian
Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II in 1998 (2)

I.   Thing said

J.   Legislative enactment

K.   Man whose like we could use again, according to
Archie Bunker (2)

L.   Ropes

M.   Noted footwear owner (2)

N.   Title meaning "My Struggle" (2)

O.   Area known locally as Bahía de Cochinos (3)

P.   Thoroughbred alternative

Q.   1781 discovery of Sir William Herschel

R.   1949 agreement establishing wartime standards of
conduct (2)

S.   Site of a 1956 revolution

T.   1955 Jackie Gleason album (4)

U.   Just hatched

V.   Is magnetic

W.   Grim one

X.   Next day

Y.   1988 Richard Thompson song beginning "G. I. Joe
put your gun away, the sun is setting on another day" (3)

Z.   Source of the testimony "I thought using the Ayatollah`s
money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea." (2)

AA.   Pay for

AB.   1937 Tommy Dorsey hit; "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
song (4)

AC.   Substances whose users "ought to be accused and
they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up" according to a 1995 comment by the subject of the quote

AD.   Loss of soil