Yes, but is there Vermouth?

by John Kiernan

No hints on this one!

         
         
         
       
         
     
       
         
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A.   Man known for being hired and fired five times by
the same boss (Full name)

B.   Kind of gains (hyph.)

C.   Sax great who played with Count Basie and Billie
Holliday (Full name)

D.   Obscure (2 words)

E.   Mouth

F.   It can be Minor

G.   Clint Eastwood western (3 words)

H.   Unfolds

I.   Perches

J.   Relieve

K.   He was one of the Darrins (Full name)

L.   Actress Skye

M.   Contemplative

N.   Blocked

O.   "Rendezvous with --" (Arthur C. Clarke novel)

P.   A person declared Word X might act this way

Q.   Take

R.   What a burden shared is

S.   Although the god of his domain, he was overshadowed
by Hades

T.   -- Films, George Harrison`s movie company

U.   Singer; Ernie Kovacs` wife (Full name)

V.   "Tin can" (2 words)

W.   "The -- of Style" (Strunk and White text)

X.   Not of sound mind (Latin, 3 words)

Y.   "-- Lounge" (Rolling Stones album)

Z.   Direction of solar wind ; "To --" (Robert Frost poem)

AA.   HMS -- (British battle cruiser sunk at Singapore
1941)

AB.   Location of Operation Just Cause

AC.   A type of table

AD.   "-- Fisherman" (Film with Anthony Quinn as Pope,
3 words)

AE.   "-- Tales" (Tolstoy, hyph.)