Clash of egos

by Phelps Gates

       
         
           
         
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A.   former likely location for an ashtray (2 wds)

B.   confused mixture of things

C.   yacht racing event

D.   like a cadenza, originally

E.   sleazy, sordid

F.   loony

G.   cheat (2 wds)

H.   weak point (2 wds)

I.   decorative design, especially if repeated

J.   call forth

K.   daydreamer in a Thurber story

L.   Gore Vidal`s second novel (4 wds)

M.   smart, fashionable, stylish

N.   listened in

O.   rhinoplasty (2 wds)

P.   1954 film with Ethel Merman (6 wds)

Q.   Truman Capote`s first book (4 wds)

R.   a package of Wrigley`s gum bore the first of these
to be scanned, in 1974 (3 wds)

S.   gave a citation to

T.   express mirth

U.   1893 patriotic poem by K. L. Bates (3 wds)

V.   thingamajig

W.   long couch for two or more persons