MICHAEL OLMERT, MILTON'S TEETH (AND OVID'S UMBRELLA) — [A] river... through Vermont's Green Mountains, called les Monts Verts and... pronounced lay moan vair, was anglicized into the Lemon Fair River. This... mystical name... [is] impossible to account for without a bit of fractured French.
| A. | Fabric made from the wool of Angora goats | MOHAIR |
| B. | Nigeria's second-largest city | IBADAN |
| C. | Plant whose nectar flavors many a honey | CLOVER |
| D. | Tendon at the back of the knee | HAMSTRING |
| E. | Term coined by the skeptic Thomas H. Huxley, 1869, to describe himself | AGNOSTIC |
| F. | Trickily evasive maneuver (2 wds.) | ENDRUN |
| G. | Softly glowing; brilliantly playful | LAMBENT |
| H. | Home to some Venezuelan crocodiles | ORINOCO |
| I. | Record kept by an avid bird watcher or naturalist (2 wds.) | LIFELIST |
| J. | Complex film-editing technique | MONTAGE |
| K. | Home of Northwestern University | EVANSTON |
| L. | Boosted, as production (2 wds.) | REVVEDUP |
| M. | Phenomena affected by syzygy | TIDES |
| N. | Extreme expression of testosterone | MACHISMO |
| O. | "News" in Russian; rival to Pravda | IZVESTIA |
| P. | Criminal; anarchic | LAWLESS |
| Q. | Original meaning of "veritable" | TRUTHFUL |
| R. | In questionable taste; bawdy (hyph.) | OFFCOLOR |
| S. | Hunter-king mentioned in Genesis | NIMROD |
| T. | Fainting spell; contraction as in "bos'n" | SYNCOPE |
| U. | Power struggle (2 wds.) | TURFWAR |
| V. | Administrative official in Brussels | EUROCRAT |
| W. | Stoat in winter white coat | ERMINE |
| X. | Popular Lionel product (2 wds.) | TRAINSET |
| Y. | Flower named for a youth loved by Apollo | HYACINTH |