(ROSE) MACAULAY, PERSONAL PLEASURES — How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty... bull..., snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and me... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.
A. | Book listing eight Beatitudes | MATTHEW |
B. | Do away with, get rid of | ABOLISH |
C. | William Pitt's earldom | CHATHAM |
D. | Tall hounds with silky coats | AFGHANS |
E. | Shadow; feeling of pique | UMBRAGE |
F. | Bleach or buoy | LIGHTEN |
G. | Perpendicular to lengthwise | ATHWART |
H. | Language of kvetchers and schmoozers? | YIDDISH |
I. | Half of a battery | PITCHER |
J. | Young female in a flock (2 wds.) | EWELAMB |
K. | One point of North Carolina's Research Triangle | RALEIGH |
L. | "Do good by ___, and blush to find it fame" (Alexander Pope) | STEALTH |
M. | Constantly busy (3 wds.) | ONTHEGO |
N. | "Seinfeld" subject, ostensibly | NOTHING |
O. | Performer of physical feats | ATHLETE |
P. | Figure of speech like "That's not bad!" | LITOTES |
Q. | Sell as genuine, as a cheap imitation (2 wds.) | PALMOFF |
R. | Barely coalified peat | LIGNITE |
S. | "One Man's Meat" essayist (3 wds.) | EBWHITE |
T. | "River of woe" crossed on the way to Hades | ACHERON |
U. | Setting for "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" | SIBERIA |
V. | Detach from a trailer | UNHITCH |
W. | Exactly; "You said it!" (2 wds.) | RIGHTON |
X. | Plain to see | EVIDENT |
Y. | Put away, as a poniard or parang | SHEATHE |