Holiday Spirit?

by Frank Podosek

         
         
         
         
       
           
     
       
         
         
         
       
         
       
       

A.   Guzzle

B.   M*A*S*H surgeon (2)

C.   An enthusiastic "yes" in the navy (3)

D.   Small watercraft

E.   Ursa Minor (2)

F.   Entailing little difficulty

G.   In former times, an acronym sometimes found on the
back of an envelope containing an adolescent love-letter

H.   Consider unlikely

I.   "One if by land, two if by sea, and ________" (7)

J.   Informal

K.   Arthur`s colleagues (5)

L.   Pleasure

M.   "_________ Man" ("Yellow Submarine")

N.   Former heriditary autarch of a former US ally (3)

O.   Its real title is "Im Westen Nichts Neues" (6)

P.   Pursued

Q.   Vegetable paste often used as a dip

R.   Topographically irregular

S.   Where to fill your nib on an old-fashioned school
desk

T.   Firmly loyal

U.   Source of the signal referred to in Clue I (4)

V.   Waterfall in a famous poem by Longfellow

W.   Motto for the New York Times (7)

X.   Discharged, dismissed

Y.   Expelled air from the lungs suddenly and noisily

Z.   A minor component mixed in to improve something

AA.   What a victim of domestic abuse will sometimes become

AB.   Legendary creatures, often large and ugly, sometimes
said to eat humans

AC.   Nursery song about decrepitude of British infrastructure
(5)