Closing the gap

by Phelps Gates

       
     
         
     
         
         
       
         
         
     
                                             

A.   lax, negligent

B.   increase in red blood cell mass

C.   relating to how societies use animals

D.   $10, to drug dealers

E.   4-time USOC Sportsman of the Year

F.   river of forgetfulness

G.   film actress (1908-89; 2 wds)

H.   in a little while (arch. and poet.)

I.   order to which the tuatara belongs

J.   accomplishment

K.   member of a service group with an octagonal logo

L.   race first held in 1903 (3 wds)

M.   Floyd Landis, to E

N.   1984 Huey Lewis hit (5 wds)

O.   glossed over, concealed

P.   earliest attested Indo-European language

Q.   disease of the brain and spinal cord

R.   unmanly

S.   first name of E

T.   government-run drug program (3 wds)

U.   cause to lose weight

V.   stupid person