Puzzle #189

by Jim Sherman

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A.   Won at chess

B.   Tapering, diminishing

C.   Like a good story

D.   Dog owner`s constraint (2 wds)

E.   Weaponless fighting (2 wds, 1 hyph)

F.   Common colonial America labor practice (2 wds)

G.   Ernest Gaines novel (5 wds with "The")

H.   Combine

I.   Hemingway short story (3 wds with "The")

J.   Assess

K.   Coolly unconcerned

L.   Lon Chaney movie (5 wds)

M.   Seemingly

N.   Illegal (hyph)

O.   Abba, often (2 wds)

P.   Cloverleaf

Q.   Extra sports period (2 wds)

R.   Leni Riefenstahl film (4 wds)

S.   Armenian-American rock band (4 wds)

T.   Profligacy

U.   CBS drama debut of 1955 (3 wds)

V.   Oscar Wilde: "I sometimes think that God, in creating
man, ____" (4 wds)

W.   Organ repair (2 wds, 1 hyph)

X.   Impartial; tolerant