Try a flyswatter

by Phelps Gates

         
       
         
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A.   1985 sequel to Romancing the Stone (4 wds after
"The")

B.   "third" or "fourth," for example (2 wds)

C.   Indo-European language spoken in bronze-age Turkey

D.   small songbird of the genus Sitta

E.   lots of talking

F.   rule by the few

G.   loutish, impolite, crude

H.   abandoned

I.   most clownish

J.   Vince Edwards portrayed this Native American hero
in a 1952 film

K.   too well educated

L.   ineffective, indecisive, namby-pamby (2 wds or hyph.)

M.   foolish person (colloq.)

N.   oddity, peculiarity, the quality of being different

O.   make a shrill howling sound

P.   "Man proposes, God disposes." or "Many are called,
but few are chosen."

Q.   an opera house in New York; the police force in
London

R.   the northern lapwing

S.   with conspicuous display

T.   number one hit for The Drifters in 1964 (3 wds)

U.   ball support