What a grouch!

by Phelps Gates

         
         
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A.   Grandma, Ben, or Jim-Bob, for example

B.   French engineer, born Bönickhausen

C.   Small stream

D.   "__ off" (Princess Anne to paparazzi)

E.   Morally instruct and improve

F.   Undertows

G.   Knife or sword handle

H.   Preserve in an antiquated state

I.   Improvises on a theme or chord progression

J.   The science of fermentation

K.   Eccentric

L.   Typical clothing for St. Trinian`s girls

M.   Dramatic series set in Genoa City, Wisconsin (5 wds)

N.   Too zealous

O.   Nonsense!

P.   Queen`s companion (hyph.)

Q.   Shriek (2 wds)

R.   Fexofenadine, for example

S.   With no fixed abode

T.   Grounds for divorce in a 1958 film? (7 wds)

U.   Time, for example (but not height or width)

V.   1886 opera by Emanuel Chabrier

W.   Languishing with amorous desire

X.   White, in 1920 Russia, for example (hyph.)

Y.   Wasting away

Z.   "Surely that`s a joke!" (4 wds)