Gift of gab

by Frank Podosek

           
         
       
         
         
       
           
       
           
         
         
           
           
       
         
         
           

A.   Danish scientist who enunciated the geological principle
now known as the law of superposition

B.   Death personified

C.   Nine

D.   Mechanical-acoustic device patented in 1878

E.   Approval in Parliament (2)

F.   Intellectual (colloq.)

G.   Nocturnal luminosity, often visible over Canada,
very rarely over Texas (2)

H.   Substantiated

I.   Public houses

J.   Forty winks

K.   Audacity (slang)

L.   Exertion

M.   Broadway Joe

N.   Sci-fi story, book in 1898, movie in 2002 (3)

O.   Actor who portrayed Kowalski

P.   Behaved inconspicuously

Q.   Narrow pass between mountains

R.   Environmentally conscious organization

S.   Contaminates

T.   Shabby

U.   Tariff legislation blamed for intensifying depression
(hyph.)

V.   Tendency to commit pranks

W.   Simulated a color by mixing pixels of different
colors

X.   In geology, it`s made up of periods

Y.   Hindu sacred lore

Z.   Introducing through a vein

AA.   Scoop (slang)

AB.   In companionable fashion

AC.   The better known name for The Militia Company of
Captain Frans Banning Cocq and of Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburgh (2, with "The")

AD.   Infirm, often senile

AE.   Scurf

AF.   What you usually have to pay to learn something

AG.   Hoopsters` braggadocio (3)

AH.   Bacterial skin infection

AI.   Collection of Norse poems

AJ.   What Alice went through (2)

AK.   By means of which

AL.   Formerly

AM.   Increasingly rare location for a public telephone

AN.   Field event (2)

AO.   What a very generous man may give you (5)

AP.   What a hatchling uses to break out of its shell (2)

AQ.   Shelter for range workers