Not a live wire

by Phelps Gates

       
     
       
     
         
         
     
     
         
                 

A.   made a metallic ringing sound, like a coin

B.   sarin or malathion, for example

C.   juvenile forms

D.   1984 film: My Beautiful ___

E.   large arboreal lizard of tropical America

F.   insipid, spineless, foolishly sentimental (hyph.)

G.   striker replacements

H.   pier, quay

I.   having too many employees

J.   ZANU leader

K.   brawls, scuffles

L.   require

M.   not sufficient

N.   rapid, usually involuntary eye movements

O.   a delusive or misleading hope (hyph.)

P.   roughhouse, cut up (2 wds, colloq.)

Q.   hawk

R.   for a long but indefinite time (5 wds)

S.   tippler (usu. hyph.)