Last Words

by Judy Miller

         
         
           
           
       
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A.   Permission to proceed (hyph)

B.   Agassi`s "Open," e.g.

C.   Biblical matriarch (var)

D.   Emitted

E.   Stock character, often the target of the "Cad"

F.   Type of incarceration (2)

G.   Like a family room favorite

H.   Early fuel source in Zippo lighters

I.   Valuation guide first published in 1926 (3)

J.   "Smokey and the Bandit" theme song: "___ and Down"
(Jerry Reed, 1977) (2)

K.   The devil`s playground, so they say (2)

L.   Aristophanes title character

M.   Attack verbally

N.   Like ivory or pearl (hyph)

O.   Priority, on the road (hyph)

P.   Conrad classic serialized in "Pall Mall Magazine"

Q.   Hanna-Barbera hyena (3)

R.   "Medea" author

S.   Highway hazard (2)

T.   "The limousine is the ultimate ___" (William Proxmire)
(2)

U.   Not looking ahead

V.   Steno`s need

W.   Like many REI customers

X.   Robert Anderson drama starring Deborah Kerr and
John Kerr both on Broadway and on screen (3)

Y.   Part of a Skype headset

Z.   University name in Baltimore, Chicago, LA, and New
Orleans

AA.   Richard Berry`s Jamaican-style ballad that surpassed
"Yesterday" as the most recorded rock song in history (2)

AB.   Monroe lyrics in "Some Like It Hot" (boop-boop-a-doop)
(6)

AC.   Insipid (hyph)

AD.   Part of an inertial navigation system

AE.   Bar or saloon, e.g. (2)

AF.   Where reindeer pause

AG.   Expressing regret

AH.   Zonker Harris`s creator

AI.   Headed for overtime

AJ.   Vamoose (2)

AK.   Banks, e.g.

AL.   Age-related words attributed to G.B. Shaw (6)

AM.   ThinkPad, e.g.

AN.   National flower of Finland (hyph)

AO.   Focus of Matt Damon`s search in "Green Zone" (4)

AP.   First U.S. woman in space

AQ.   Opening words for Nat King Cole and others (before
it turned to love) (5)

AR.   Exclamation of pride (hyph)

AS.   Taboid-style TV newsmagazine (2)

AT.   Ascribe

AU.   Motel alternative (hyph)

AV.   Aspirin, e.g. (2, 1 hyph)

AW.   School that expelled Roentgen in 1863 but now claims
him as an alum (2)

AX.   One of Calvin`s corrugated cardboard creations

AY.   Hawthorne title character (3)

BZ.   Unconventional

.   "___: Selected Poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward
Lear" (2)