Batting Practice

by Judy Miller

         
     
       
         
         
       
         
       
         
         
     
       
           
           
       
   
       
                 

A.   Particular

B.   Acrobatic move

C.   Setting of Parts I and III of "The Kite Runner"

D.   Rundown building

E.   Advance directive (2)

F.   Referees

G.   She "glides along the woodland" (3)

H.   "___: A Land beyond Fiction and Myth"

I.   Beat around the bush

J.   The closing scene of "The Girl Who Played with Fire,"
e.g.

K.   Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1942, 1954, and
1979 and the National Cartoonist Society Award in 1957 and 1960 (2)

L.   Ungainly

M.   Crowe role, 2001

N.   Use Febreze

O.   Out of ___ (suddenly) (2)

P.   Part of the "Sound of Music" soundtrack

Q.   #13 on the "Times" list of the "50 Greatest British
Writers since 1945"

R.   Chess`s ___ Variation

S.   Infamy

T.   Undecided

U.   "Let us ___ the steam radiator with our wool slippers
and write poems of Launcelot" (Sandburg, 1918)

V.   Spring visitor to the White House (3)

W.   Elijah`s successor

X.   Told on (2)

Y.   Sacristy

Z.   "___ Invasion: Exotic Pets Gone Wild in Florida"

AA.   Clinton for Nixon or Thatcher for Reagan, e.g.

AB.   Snipes, e.g. (2)

AC.   Form 1099 figure

AD.   Like matryoshka dolls

AE.   Essence

AF.   Entry in a sports glossary

AG.   WGBH vis-à-vis NPR, e.g.

AH.   Like a simple, precise mathematical solution

AI.   Often misquoted line by our subject in AK (9)

AJ.   LAN connection

AK.   See AI (4)

AL.   Les Reed and Geoff Stephens hit they originally
wrote for the New Vaudeville Band, 1966 (5)