Earning Our Stripes--2

by Judy Miller

       
       
         
         
     
     
       
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A.   Furniture store offering

B.   My way alternative (2)

C.   Settled in an A

D.   Window treatment (2)

E.   Covetous discontent

F.   Thumb

G.   Lure

H.   Cable offering

I.   1919 silent comedy starring Mary Pickford (hyph)

J.   "Darn!"

K.   Time of uncertainty (2)

L.   On the bookshelf: "___: The Violence of Fear and
Hate"

M.   Ruby

N.   Part of an internal combusion engine

O.   Part of a wedding party

P.   Russian-American composer and pianist

Q.   Misquotation attributed to Holmes (4)

R.   Words that stop the Muzak (2)

S.   Be laid-back (4)

T.   Issue

U.   Earl Grey is one (2)

V.   Audi`s Avant, e.g. (2)

W.   High flyers

X.   The Coens` take on "The Odyssey" (5)

Y.   Subject of Malcolm Muggeridge`s "Something Beautiful
for God" (2)

Z.   Brunch offering (2)

AA.   Hood

AB.   Daring, provocative

AC.   Deep draft

AD.   Tranquil

AE.   Dry shaver (2)

AF.   Virginia and Massachusetts, e.g.

AG.   Assays

AH.   Institut Villa Pierrefeu, e.g. (2)

AI.   What a boa and duster might have in common (2)

AJ.   Edible tube

AK.   Ski boot adjustment

AL.   Surfeit

AM.   Stupa

AN.   "What an angry expression!" (4)

AO.   Emerging

AP.   Chinese herb

AQ.   Independent Spirit Award`s Best Foreign Film, 2004
(2)

AR.   Dark comedy starring Kevin Kline and Tracey Ullman,
1990 (5)

AS.   Roof of the world

AT.   Mary to the angel Gabriel: "I am the ___ of the
Lord."

AU.   Military blockade

AV.   Babylonian ruler

AW.   With AX, wise words from Sir Walter Scott (7)

AX.   See AW (6)