Elementary

by Frank Podosek

     
           
           
           
     
         
       
           
       
           
         
       
         
           
         
         
         
                                 

A.   Broadway attractions

B.   A mixture of hydrated silicates of iron, magnesium
and calcium

C.   Perforated

D.   Open, often enthusuastic acknowledgments

E.   Common ornamental shrub

F.   Rock fractures caused by compressive stress (2)

G.   US abolitionist (1811-1896), author of influential
antislavery novel (3)

H.   Illusory

I.   Virginia river, often separating Union and Confederate
forces in the Civil War

J.   Bert`s colleagues, who danced on the rooftops with
him in Mary Poppins

K.   Close associates of bookies

L.   Of sufficient interest for film at 11

M.   Extra rooms attached to pre-existing structures

N.   American author ("Young Goodman Brown"), 1804-1864
(2)

O.   Cast of characters (2)

P.   Literary device, words which imitate the sounds
which they designate

Q.   Food prepared from milk curdled by bacteria

R.   Pathological formation of mineral concretions within
the body

S.   Metamorphic mineral of iron and calcium, sometimes
of gem quality

T.   Arouses

U.   Ill-tempered

V.   Politeness

W.   Pubs

X.   Idiocy

Y.   "Did he smile his work to see? _______________" (8)

Z.   Passage through a masonry wall; tunnel

AA.   Brightly colored reef dweller with venomous spines

AB.   Filled with air

AC.   The parts of fountain pens that do the actual writing

AD.   "The Golden ______", study of early religions by
Sir James George Frazier

AE.   Young nocturnal predatory birds

AF.   What he did after his vorpal blade went snicker-snack
(4)

AG.   The treeherds who defeated Saruman

AH.   Gay

AI.   Bill Clinton: "That all depends on what your definition
of ___ is"

AJ.   Changing to make more suitable