What a surprise!

by Phelps Gates

           
     
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A.   comparative linguistics (largely obs.)

B.   one given to self-worship; one who believes Christ
himself the self-existent God

C.   constructed in a way that resists pilfering

D.   palliated by circumstances

E.   the cranefly orchid

F.   percent

G.   building where salt solution is used, as in pickling

H.   inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom in The Prisoner
of Zenda

I.   converted (a tract of land) for use as a tree farm

J.   the European goatsucker

K.   Wesleyan Methodist observance on New Year`s Eve
(2 wds)

L.   "chutzpah" or "nosh"

M.   lacking clairvoyant powers

N.   deviating from the vertical

O.   drawing up in military formation (poetic)

P.   "Unto __ much is given, of him shall much be required."
(Luke 12:48)

Q.   qualities known by subsequent experience (obs.,
hyph.)

R.   exhibiting hermaphroditism

S.   equipped with mounted couriers

T.  
the state of being covered or soaked with perspiration

U.   richly embroidered sleeve cuffs in an Eastern Orthodox
vestment

V.   manual labor force

W.   birth defect in which the urethral meatus is on
top of the penile shaft

X.   most horrifying

Y.   mineral (a variety of scapolite) named for the discoverer
of tantalum