Puzzle #154

by Jim Sherman

       
       
         
         
       
         
           
   
         
       
       
     
       
     
         
       
       
       
       
     
           
       
         
       
       
                     

A.   Chef and food writer (2 wds)

B.   Obstinate in your beliefs

C.   Unconsciousness

D.   Ineptitude

E.   Long-running TV musical variety series (4 wds)

F.   Made of oak, e.g.

G.   "The Spectator" founders (3 wds)

H.   Robin Hood`s home

I.   Firmly grounded

J.   Pose

K.   Ray Charles song (3 wds)

L.   Enthrall

M.   Environment

N.   Marlee Matlin`s debut movie (5 wds)

O.   Practicing self-denial

P.   North Atlantic island (2 wds)

Q.   William Lloyd Garrison: "Gradualism in theory is_____"
(3 wds)

R.   Device of Aesop`s Fables

S.   Driver`s license, perhaps

T.   Beach Boys song (2 wds)

U.   Place of The Gospels (2 wds)

V.   Schismatic religious bodies

W.   Magical spell

X.   English composer (3 wds)

Y.   Richard Simmons diet program (4 wds)

Z.   Adversaries

AA.   Type of cabinet (3 wds)

AB.   Impossible to deny

AC.   Relative favoritism

AD.   Arrange in pairs

AE.   Tahiti, Bora Bora, et al. (2 wds)

AF.   Chuck Berry hit (3 wds)

AG.   Not working (3 wds)

AH.   Alley

AI.   Hasbro game

AJ.   Movie villain`s due

AK.   Fictional sleuth (2 wds)

AL.   Taking heed

AM.   Tavern

AN.   Thriving volume of trade (2 wds, 1 hyph)

AO.   Agatha Christie`s best-selling novel (5 wds)

AP.   Malodorous

AQ.   British military pageants

AR.   The last line in King Kong (6 wds)

AS.   Out of it