Pause and Reflect

by Judy Miller

       
               
     
         
           
         
       
         
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A.   Upset

B.   Forbidden (hyph)

C.   "A town that ___ inhabitants like me can have no
lack of good society" (Longfellow)

D.   2007`s Juno MacGuff (2)

E.   Like steak tartare

F.   Delicious

G.   Now and then

H.   "___: The Daniel Pearl Story" (3)

I.   Moved to action

J.   The unexpected (2)

K.   1968 comedy starring Doris Day and Brian Keith:
"With Six You Get ___"

L.   Allegiance

M.   Explicit

N.   Pogo`s home (2)

O.   Intolerant (hyph)

P.   Pessimism

Q.   McCartney/Wonder #1 hit, 1982 (3)

R.   Handy folk to have as part of a wagon train

S.   Item on a list of Ben`s inventions

T.   Like some deli slices (hyph)

U.   Stud setting

V.   "Mirroring People: The Science of ___..."

W.   Mementos

X.   4 o`clock, for some

Y.   Surgical clamps

Z.   Sapped of strength

AA.   Offering at X

AB.   Break the bank?

AC.   "Untwine me from the ___ of deeds which make up
life" (Browning)

AD.   Rock`s ___ Blues

AE.   Unyielding

AF.   Traditional children`s game (3)

AG.   "Rolling Stone`s" Greatest Singer of All Time (2)

AH.   Extravagant

AI.   Supple

AJ.   Stalin and Gorbachev, e.g.

AK.   Nashville "dot edu"

AL.   #10 on Oxford University`s top-10 list of the most
overused expressions in English (4)

AM.   1981`s Best Picture (3)

AN.   It`s not worth mentioning

AO.   Marvin Gaye hit ranked #80 on "Rolling Stone`s"
list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, so they say (6)

AP.   Hindu honorific

AQ.   Farah Pahlavi`s "Enduring Love: My Life with ___" (2)

AR.   Like Corningware

AS.   "Proceed!"

AT.   Fearless

AU.   The most expensive of the precious metals

AV.   Oil company that also makes toy trucks

AW.   Symbol of dependency (2)

AX.   Calmed

AY.   Margaret Atwood`s 1985 award-winning novel (3)

BZ.   Critical indicator of success or failure (2)

.   Dodged

.   "For freedom`s battle, once begun, . . . though
___ oft, is ever won" (Byron)

.   Topsy-turvy (hyph)

.   Noisy festivities

.   A friend, to some (5)

.   Many vegans eschew it

.   T.S. Eliot play in verse about Lord Claverton, a
man of distinction and influence (2, with "The")