Early Inspiration

by Judy Miller

       
     
         
         
     
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A.   Trailways alternative

B.   Felony involving a deadly weapon (2)

C.   Ruffles-like

D.   Tease or ridicule

E.   U.S. regulatory body 1887-1995 (3)

F.   Like Ingrid or Ingmar, e.g.

G.   Disagreeable

H.   Akhenaten`s Great Royal Wife

I.   "Cat`s Cradle" creator, 1963 (2)

J.   "A Passage to India" penner, 1924 (3)

K.   Type of medical alert (2)

L.   Latitude

M.   Asymmetric

N.   Job application recipient, often (2)

O.   "A ___ drop of manly blood/The surging sea outweighs"
(Emerson)

P.   "Things have changed" (6)

Q.   Widely known person, place, or thing (2)

R.   Subject of "Word Histories and Mysteries"

S.   Fermented condiment flavored with anchovies (2)

T.   Arrived at

U.   Written proof of indebtedness

V.   Fearfulness

W.   North Face insulator

X.   Beneficiary of the work of the UNHCR

Y.   Secondary entertainment

Z.   1956 coinage by computer scientist John McCarthy (2)

AA.   Dressing table

AB.   Hodgepodge

AC.   "Shoo!" (3)

AD.   Old Testament wall builder

AE.   Like some soaps

AF.   Temperance movement alternative to the pub

AG.   Zola`s Raquin

AH.   Title role for Valerie, 1974-78

AI.   Ernest Gaines novel covering the period 1864-1964
(5, with "The")

AJ.   Charlotte or Frank

AK.   "Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, ___, and the Course
of the American Civil War (2)

AL.   The adventures of David Balfour, 1886

AM.   Upcoming (3)

AN.   Contents of a blister pack

AO.   Oppressive burden

AP.   Novelist and screenwriter whose works include "Hombre"
and "Get Shorty" (2)

AQ.   AL`s author (3)