Preemptive Strike

by John Kiernan

     
       
       
       
         
       
         
                                   

A.   Having a disparaging effect

B.   Hide one`s online or telephone identity

C.   Add one to the group and `between` becomes this

D.   First host of the "Today" show

E.   "____ Annie" ("Oklahoma!" character)

F.   Nixon`s 1960 running mate

G.   United States Forest Service`s mascot

H.   Myron Floren played one on the Lawrence Welk Show

I.   Tending or able to fill

J.   Notwithstanding that

K.   Pronoun that follows a preposition

L.   Deficient in oxygen

M.   Film synonymous with box office bomb and Hollywood
excess

N.   1954 sci-fi film about giant ants (without the exclamation
point)

O.   See Word V

P.   There was one at Owl Creek Bridge

Q.   Protuberance

R.   Pertaining to coughing

S.   Ernest Jennings Ford `s nickname

T.   Exertion

U.   One finds it at a hostelry

V.   With Word O, Dickens novel dealing with debtors`
prisons

W.   Austin Powers lost his and had to retrieve it in
a film

X.   Discomfit