Not a triumph

by Phelps Gates

     
       
       
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A.   tear

B.   impartial

C.   supposed signal for Pearl Harbor attack (3 wds)

D.   C. Auguste Dupin, for example

E.   rubbernecked

F.   kiwicha, an Inca foodstuff

G.   Procter & Gamble product introduced 1946

H.   fill (a boat) with water

I.   Pennsylvania town, once a major steel producer

J.   1940 hit for Jimmie Davis (and title of his autobiography;
4 wds)

K.   paucity

L.   spelling

M.   without embarrassment or shyness

N.   adjacent (hyph.)

O.   insect of suborder Zygoptera

P.   ! (2 wds)

Q.   cure; antidote

R.   wooden bench