Opening lines

by Judy Miller

       
       
       
       
         
         
         
     
     
     
     
       
         
         
       
           
       
         
       
     
         
                               

A.   "Maggie and Ira Moran had to go to a funeral in
Deer Lick, Pennsylvania" (1988) (2)

B.   At ground level, an air pollutant

C.   Interdisciplinary science

D.   "Indian summer is like a woman" (1956) (2)

E.   Vaudevillian, often with seven of his children at
his side (1856-1928) (2)

F.   "I have never begun a novel with more misgiving"
(1944) (2, with "The")

G.   Breakfast portion for some

H.   "It was the hour of twilight on a soft spring day
toward the end of April in the year of Our Lord 1929, and George Webber leaned his elbows on the sill of his back window and looked out at what he could see of New York" (1940) (5)

I.   Babylonian royal and title character of a Handel
oratorio

J.   "Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February,
two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlour, in the town of P---, in Kentucky" (1852) (3)

K.   "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong,
ding-dong" (1930) (4, with "The")

L.   Determinant of the "feels like" column at weather.com
(3)

M.   Stress

N.   Absurd

O.   Occupation

P.   Rabbinical seminary (var)

Q.   "Imagine, then, a flat landscape, dark for the moment,
but even so conveying to a girl running in the still deeper shadow cast by the wall of the Bibighar gardens an idea of immensity" (1966-1975) (3)

R.   "This is the saddest story I have ever heard" (1915)
(3)

S.   Bureau

T.   Judean governor and Old Testament author

U.   Soft and light

V.   Constant

W.   "Call me Jonah" (1963) (2)

X.   Item of interest to Doc Holliday

Y.   "For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe
and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides" (1869) (2, with "The")

Z.   Hopefulness

AA.   Characteristic of a user-friendly website

AB.   Self-indulgently

AC.   ___.com (founded by "dirtbike nuts") (hyph.)

AD.   Science`s 1992 "Molecule of the Year" (2)

AE.   "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled
far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (c. 700-630 BCE) (2)

AF.   Sandwich generation concern (2)

AG.   "Once upon a time when the world was young there
was a Martian named Smith" (1961) (5)

AH.   Balancing of factors (hyph.)

AI.   1963 Newbery Medal winner, by Madeleine L`Engle
(3, with "A")

AJ.   Opening words of Answer AI (7)

AK.   Rejecting values and morality

AL.   Beginner

AM.   Subject to interpretation

AN.   Gershwin biopic, 1945 (3)