No wonder!

by Phelps Gates

       
           
       
         
       
         
         
       
       
       
       
                     

A.   natural home of a creature

B.   acclaim, show approval of

C.   salvific

D.   monotonous, tedious

E.   Merida`s state

F.   sheer chance, coincidence

G.   bone turquoise

H.   changed a to A

I.   loincloth

J.   discrepancies, contradictions

K.   Robert Frost poetry collection (1914; 3 wds)

L.   like Ciclosporin or Rapamycin

M.   woman allegedly resurrected by St. Peter

N.   held back in doubt or indecision

O.   crops belonging to a tenant farmer

P.   "I, ___" (Isaac Asimov story collection)

Q.   with an eye to extending one`s country`s power

R.   butter with milk solids removed

S.   one worshipping one god but not denying the existence
of others

T.   first steel vessels in US Navy, completed 1888 (3
wds)

U.   Tolkien`s Amon Sul

V.   nonsense!

W.   veil once used by Moslem women in Turkey