Excellent Adventure--1

by Judy Miller

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A.   Nursery favorite covered by Jewel on her 2009 album
"Lullaby" (4)

B.   Necessary

C.   Driving force

D.   "The Fires of Vesuvius: ___ Lost and Found"

E.   Adobe offering

F.   "See?!" (or the title of a Randy Travis/Carrie Underwood
duet) (4)

G.   Most impoverished

H.   "Around Tombstone: ___ and Gunfights" (2)

I.   "Hey, leave him alone" (2)

J.   Violin virtuoso on the 1966 album "West Meets East,"
with Ravi Shankar (2)

K.   1988 Oscar nominee x 7 starring Glenn Close, John
Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer (2)

L.   All-encompassing

M.   What the kittens lost, found, put on, and washed (2)

N.   Nonsense (or a board game of trivia and bluffing)

O.   Part of a parlor grouping

P.   Church committee

Q.   Tareq and Michaele Salahi in 2009 headlines

R.   Plugs and jacks user (2)

S.   Fossil hunter Barnum Brown`s field of study

T.   The Group Theatre`s first playwright and author
of "Awake and Sing!"

U.   Barnum Brown`s 1902 discovery (2)

V.   Strewed fine particles, or removed them

W.   Western Hemisphere capital

X.   Oedipus` realm

Y.   Acrobatic move

Z.   Continually preoccupied

AA.   Sing-along favorite during Advent

AB.   "___ and it`s untidy, and freedom`s untidy..." (Donald
Rumsfeld, 2003) (2)

AC.   Persistently complain

AD.   Abilene, Kansas, attraction (5)

AE.   Pete Townshend lyrics from 1971: "Getting in tune
to ___" (4)

AF.   Feature of some telephone bundles (2)

AG.   Short-lived cyberpunk TV series: "Max ___," 1987-88

AH.   As rich as Rockefeller (2)

AI.   "Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of ___" (2)

AJ.   One aim of sodium pentothal (2)

AK.   Option at the pump (2)

AL.   Stunning (hyph)

AM.   Relevant information when comparing prices at the
grocery store (2)

AN.   "Lions and tigers and bears! ___!" (2)

AO.   Health arm of the National Academies (3)

AP.   Type of discount coupon

AQ.   Person of importance or influence

AR.   Made indistinct

AS.   Earnest supplication (2)

AT.   Alkaline alternative

AU.   Should (2)

AV.   One of Jimmy Stewart`s many hats

AW.   Loathsome

AX.   Boston-based publisher since 1837 (2)

AY.   "The Bourne ___," 2007

BZ.   Institution considered exempt from criticism (2)

.   Bravo`s "The Real ___ of . . ."

.   Drove the get-away car for, e.g.

.   Innate

.   911 responder

.   Programming from 9 to 5 (2)

.   Fix a seam

.   ___ commentary (voice-over) (hyph)

.   Frontier settlements

.   Fertilizing material

.   Super pleasing to the senses