DAVID WILTON, WORD MYTHS — OK is the most successful of all Americanisms. It has invaded hundreds of... languages... . It was... the first unscripted word spoken on the surface of the moon, uttered by Buzz Aldrin just after the lunar module touched down.
| A. | Medieval scholar, a numbskull's eponym (2 wds.) | DUNSSCOTUS |
| B. | Evidence for many an urban legend? | ANECDOTE |
| C. | Motivation behind some gang warfare | VENDETTA |
| D. | Seaweed yielding the thickener carrageenan (2 wds.) | IRISHMOSS |
| E. | Broadway's longest-running thriller, 1978-82 | DEATHTRAP |
| F. | Spoilsport, party pooper (2 wds.) | WETBLANKET |
| G. | Means of entering | INGRESS |
| H. | Everything (2 wds.) | LIONSSHARE |
| I. | Bill Cosby's alma mater, home of the Owls | TEMPLE |
| J. | Like a ship lost at sea (hyph.) | OFFCOURSE |
| K. | Habit adopted by the Beatles on a 1968 trip to India (2 wds.) | NEHRUJACKET |
| L. | ___ Islands, home of Grenada and Martinique | WINDWARD |
| M. | Banished by ballot, in ancient Greece | OSTRACIZED |
| N. | Guideline falsely supposed to stem from the size of a stick lawful for a beating (3 wds.) | RULEOFTHUMB |
| O. | National flower of Wales | DAFFODIL |
| P. | Item in a rogues' gallery (2 wds.) | MUGSHOT |
| Q. | Holiday season | YULETIDE |
| R. | "You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't ___" (1978 REO Speedwagon album) (2 wds.) | TUNAFISH |
| S. | Miniature person, like Mini-Me or a hobbit | HOMUNCULUS |
| T. | Musical direction meaning "to be accented" | SFORZANDO |