Mornings

by Judy Miller

     
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A.   Records collection

B.   Culinary thickener

C.   30-300 megahertz (3)

D.   Kitty Wells` 1952 #1 hit response to Hank Thompson`s
"The Wild Side of Life" (8)

E.   Certain music fans

F.   Type of self-delusion (2)

G.   Numbers on a motel door

H.   Miss by going too far

I.   Slaughterous

J.   Makes like a barber

K.   Chagrin, at times

L.   Hank Williams` "too blue to fly" songbird

M.   Flattered (hyph)

N.   Australian round (7)

O.   Out of place

P.   Gibbon`s focus, 1776-89 (8)

Q.   Sound practical judgment (2)

R.   Elucidation

S.   The Pygmalion Effect, e.g. (2, 1 hyph)

T.   Like many fairy tale roofs

U.   Repellent (hyph)

V.   Variable resistor with two terminals

W.   Sex determinants (2)

X.   Pigheaded

Y.   Calamity Jane, e.g.

Z.   "Don`t strain yourself" (3)

AA.   M as in Morse (2)

AB.   Focus of many studies of global warming (2)

AC.   "Crossing the Bar" penner (3)

AD.   Tutu biography: "___ for Peace" (hyph)

AE.   Miss Marple, e.g.

AF.   Open; transparent (hyph)

AG.   Cottonmouth (2)

AH.   Dull sounds

AI.   New Testament (NIV) teaching: "Love ___ as I have
loved you" (2)

AJ.   Asian water lily

AK.   Like an "Oliver Twist" urchin (hyph)

AL.   Common childhood ailment

AM.   Literary villain of 1900 (5)

AN.   Conductor who said: "If I were capable of killing
a man, I would kill Mussolini." (2)

AO.   Patient and uncomplaining (hyph)

AP.   Popular lawn and pasture cover (2)

AQ.   1963 comedy featuring Jimmy Durante as car-crash
victim "Smiler" Grogan (7)

AR.   Focus of Eric Drexler`s "Engines of Creation"

AS.   Ace the Bat-Hound et al. (2)

AT.   Nursery song stand-alone (2)

AU.   Like some rules (hyph)

AV.   One in compliance with Executive Order 11246, signed
in 1965 (3)

AW.   VCR function (2)

AX.   Repeated

AY.   Evolutionary mechanism (2)

BZ.   Ramada repast (2)

.   Meriting a 100% (hyph)

.   37.2 to 38.2 degrees Celsius, orally (2, 1 hyph)

.   Maya Angelou memoir (7)

.   2004 film the Village Voice called "an epic, magisterially
observed pastiche on all-American geek-hood" (2)

.   Part of a heart rate monitor