Can it be?

by Phelps Gates

       
       
           
           
           
         
         
           
     
         
       
                 

A.   survey project begun in 1763 (2 wds, 1 hyph.)

B.   missing person

C.   any of several birds, esp. Turdus migratorius

D.   informal social gathering for conversation

E.   TN town, merged with Daisy in 1969

F.   student of fish

G.   two longs

H.   relentlessness

I.   young girl who follows the latest trends

J.   Jolson standard (3 wds)

K.   key to a previously unsolved mystery (2 wds)

L.   final demand

M.   gullet

N.   phagocyte (3 wds)

O.   fixed, stringently enforced (3 wds)

P.   November 1 (2 wds)

Q.   private chat (hyph.)

R.   chonmage or sikha

S.   part of brain that controls body temperature

T.   Malinowski or Boas

U.   US navy typists

V.   scarf or shawl worn loosely over the shoulders

W.   placate, especially by yielding to

X.   University with three Manhattan campuses