Poor planning

by Phelps Gates

     
         
         
     
         
       
       
     
         
     
                 

A.   film

B.   type of sunbonnet; fuel container (sometimes hyph.)

C.   sleight-of-hand

D.   liquor of poor quality

E.   ill-famed British monarch (d. 1016; 3 wds)

F.   plant of the Circaea genus (2 wds)

G.   de jure segregation

H.   cookie; force unit; Massachusetts town

I.   void; zero

J.   neat and tidy arrangement (3 wds)

K.   information; good-for-nothing

L.   nickname of the mostly white 1863 Confederate flag
(2 wds)

M.   rust

N.   paper size, traditionally 13.5 by 17 inches

O.   bird (especially if edible)

P.   bombastic; sonorous

Q.   flower after which a Joad daughter is named in The
Grapes of Wrath (3 wds)

R.   obsession; madness

S.   coveting

T.   1954 Charles Vidor film starring Elizabeth Taylor

U.   aconite

V.   member of a tribe that ruled Italy from 493 to 555

W.   what O sometimes does

X.   inhabitant of a place (colloq.)

Y.   pertaining to relaxation of the heart