Getting the message across

by Phelps Gates

       
         
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A.   acted like Vladimir and Estragon

B.   recognized (as someone or something)

C.   truncated

D.   3.6 megajoules (2 wds)

E.   like February 29

F.   Sitka, under Russian rule (2 wds)

G.   Americans call this a rutabaga

H.   payer of a 262 million dollar prize in 2010 (3 wds)

I.   these phenomena are intensified by geomagnetic storms
(2 wds)

J.   "___ Mighty": a novel, film, and song (4 wds)

K.   start of a famous William Congreve misquote about
women (4 wds)

L.   a resident of Addis Ababa

M.   completely blocked (e.g., a road)

N.   Presbyterian establishment (3 wds)

O.   the position of a bishop

P.   1956 Marilyn Monroe movie (2 wds)

Q.   Umnak or Unalaska, for example (2 wds)

R.   humble status

S.   like the feet of a grebe

T.   the Hebrew Tanakh (2 wds)

U.   a middle and high school in Greece, NY (2 wds)

V.   Alaska town whose streetlights have a candy-cane
pattern (2 wds)