The protection racket

by Roger Gabrielson

       
       
       
     
       
     
       
       
       
       
       
         
     
         
       
                               

A.   Former first lady (3)

B.   "___ diminishes little passions and increases great
ones" - François de la Rochefoucauld

C.   Common sandwich ingredient (2)

D.   Reform Party founder (2)

E.   Pleasant sound

F.   Denver five

G.   Light and bubbly performance style (2)

H.   Establish firmly

I.   TV show whose French-Canadian version was called
"La roue chanceuse" (3)

J.   Outflow

K.   Like the Tower of Pisa

L.   Popular singing clan (2)

M.   Movie character introduced in 1928`s "Plane Crazy"
(2)

N.   Group founded by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin (3)

O.   User of what Ambrose Bierce defined as "an instrument
in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin"

P.   Something like tihs, porbably

Q.   Fan

R.   Make over

S.   Humiliation

T.   Sticky sweet spherical snack

U.   Most likely

V.   Equivocal answer (3)

W.   Retro dance for Stone or North? (2)

X.   Said

Y.   Most worn and torn

Z.   Song beginning "`There must be some kind of way
out of here` said the joker to the thief" (4)

AA.   Former first lady (3)

AB.   Snare

AC.   Proper

AD.   Song performed by Dooley Wilson in "Casablanca"
and Diane Keaton in "Annie Hall" (5)

AE.   Cheese originated in a Somerset village

AF.   Once-popular flame retardant