Portrait of a People

by Sol Gordon

   
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A.   "And never the ..... shall meet." Kipling

B.   Not a bright light

C.   Favorite; object of adulation (4)

D.   Inflammation of cellular tissue of the stomach

E.   Old West TV drama that ran for six years

F.   City of the Russian Oblast region on the Volga

G.   City that gave us "the birth of the blues"

H.   Type of hat made with materials from Ecuador

I.   Type of writing paper

J.   Vessel made of porous clay (2)

K.   Symbols of cowardice (2)

L.   MLB`s all-time leader in home runs (2)

M.   Power of producing a strong impression or response

N.   Same as clue B

O.   Curious; prying

P.   Sample strip of material

Q.   Type of Saint (hyph)

R.   Marx Brothers comedy film of 1935 (5)

S.   Influential Austrian statesman at the Congress of
Vienna

T.   Like an animal; mean

U.   A wooden border in a style marked by elaborate ornamentation
(2)

V.   A metal design you might want to put into Clue U

W.   A must task for a flat tire (2)

X.   Roughly 3/5 of a mile

Y.   Highbrow musical event (2)

Z.   Crown

AA.   Servility; duteousness

AB.   Eponine in Les Miserables, for example

AC.   Nervous system operator