Puzzle #137

by Jim Sherman

     
       
           
     
           
         
     
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A.   Jazz musician (1885-1941) (3 wds)

B.   Old age malady

C.   Movie hunk or bombshell

D.   Part of the Boy Scouts uniform

E.   Hide skill

F.   Sensitivity measuring device

G.   Widdershins

H.   Churchill: "Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up ___" (8 wds)

I.   Renovation

J.   Prison purpose

K.   Column header

L.   Christie detectives (4 wds)

M.   _______ League

N.   Failed U.S. legislation of 1972 (3 wds)

O.   1928 Disney cartoon (2 wds)

P.   Rum drink (2 wds)

Q.   Vigorous and fresh

R.   Pertussis (2 wds)

S.   Suitable to live in

T.   Extemporaneously (3 wds)

U.   Oslo, once

V.   The tenure of a president

W.   Stephen Jay Gould`s "The _______" (3 wds)

X.   Revertible to the state

Y.   Lincoln: "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
_______" (6 wds)

Z.   Representing what is real

AA.   Gdansk, once (4 wds)

AB.   Huck or Jim, perhaps

AC.   Time when a professor makes himself available (2 wds)

AD.   Appearance

AE.   Road

AF.   Type of chaperone

AG.   Capable of producing an intended result

AH.   Medium to dark brown

AI.   In

AJ.   Reveal (2 wds)

AK.   Meryl Streep movie (3 wds)