Discouraging words

by Phelps Gates

         
       
             
         
         
         
       
       
           
         
           
       
                 

A.   royal victim of Richard III, allegedly (2 wds)

B.   destroy, ruin

C.   film director: Jefferson in Paris

D.   crisp fabric, originally of silk

E.   expressed admiration or astonishment

F.   go over again

G.   white or yellow daffodil species

H.   2001 novel by Jacqueline Rose

I.   Robinson Crusoe, for example

J.   game played with broomsticks

K.   like the subject of the quotation, according to
the quotation

L.   cover, enclose

M.   1984 film starring Jeremy Irons (3 wds)

N.   typified by "consciousness raising" (2 wds)

O.   be more important than

P.   variable resistors

Q.   site of a 1914 "Miracle"

R.   affliction of the addressee of the quotation

S.   gay decade

T.   insect repellent

U.   Volume III of Proust`s magnum opus (3 wds)

V.   in debt

W.   typical of Islamic Spain

X.   Syrian ruling family

Y.   American novelist: Call It Sleep

Z.   subject of BWV 211

AA.   the -C2H5 group

AB.   aquatic plant, often with showy flowers

AC.   "The ___": TV series starring Patrick McGoohan

AD.   warm up again

AE.   defeated in battle

AF.   painter born in Montmartre

AG.   Ruth Westheimer`s alma mater

AH.   film written by and starring Julie Delpy (4 wds)