Take your pick!

by Phelps Gates

       
       
         
       
         
           
     
         
         
       
         
         
                             

A.   extinguishing (2 wds)

B.   distribute by lot (2 wds)

C.   Hindu writings on mystic philosophy

D.   battle in which alligators were used as artillery
according to song (2 wds)

E.   corrupt, invalidate

F.   manlike

G.   region between Boston and Marblehead (2 wds)

H.   least sane (colloq.)

I.   spindles; treats unfairly (colloq.)

J.   nightjar of the family Podargidae (2 wds)

K.   circumciser

L.   ethyl oxide

M.   team sponsor in Bad News Bears (3 wds)

N.   insect, for example

O.   US territory established 1850 (2 wds)

P.   Gold Cup winner on Bloomsday

Q.   uniting disparate elements into a whole

R.   landlocked African kingdom

S.   major Soviet spy, according to McCarthy

T.   enveloping

U.   fatal

V.   __ Moon: popular manga character

W.   horse harnessed on the right (Brit.)

X.   manner; systematic plan

Y.   dermopteran insects

Z.   Dodge City, for example (2 wds)

AA.   theme of the movie Gentleman`s Agreement (hyph.)

AB.   Dwight Gooden or Tom Seaver, famously (3 wds)

AC.   1976 John Wayne movie (2 wds)