I hope you have had a chance to solve this, but here is the solution!

A) Attract
B) Last man on earth.
C) Abandon
D) Nut
E) Stuff
F) Monster Club
G) A case of conscience.
H) Leave her to heaven
I) Edward Scissorhands.
J) Ephor
K) NW
L) Gust
M) Lodestone
N) ITNT (although I cheat, I make sure these are acronyms of SOMETHING!)
O) Stunt
P) House on Haunted Hill.
Q) Wrap up.
R) Iff
S) Loudness
T) Diary of a Madman.
U) Lowdown
V) Ipso
W) Farthest Shore.
X) Ethos.

First letters read: Alan Smale, English Wild Life. (From Asimov's Oct-Nov 2015)