No regicides, please

by John Kiernan

         
     
       
     
         
     
         
     
                               

A.   major defense contractors, typically (2 wds)

B.   British battleship with internal fittings labelled
in Portuguese

C.   shavetail (2 wds)

D.   Queen Elizabeth, in 1940

E.   conversation, often involving questioning

F.   border county, the eponym of several British warships

G.   Playboy feature

H.   regretful

I.   in a comic or buffoonish fashion

J.   frank admission or acknowledgment

K.   foxes, in Scotland

L.   like a depth charge (hyph.)

M.   musical gathering

N.   strait between Chile and Argentina (3 wds)

O.   likely location for an air raid warden

P.   the Washington Monument, for example

Q.   thick mucus

R.   Elizabeth I and Mary I, for example (hyph.)

S.   annual White House event (2 wds)