(KATHA) POLLITT, LEARNING TO DRIVE -- I've always believed in the Nero Wolfe theory of knowledge. You can just sit... in your room... and through sheer mental effort force the tiniest snippets of information to yield the entire story of which they are a fragment...
I've always believed in the Nero Wolfe theory of knowledge. You can just sit quietly in your room — according to Pascal, the activity that if practiced more assiduously would free humanity from most of its troubles, but that was before email — and through sheer mental effort force the tiniest snippets of information to yield the entire story of which they are a fragment...
| A. | Close close? (2 wds.) | PHOTOFINISH |
| B. | Purloiner in a Susan Orlean title (2 wds.) | ORCHIDTHIEF |
| C. | Winter wear you don't normally see (2 wds.) | LONGJOHNS |
| D. | Item for one who goes overboard (2 wds.) | LIFEVEST |
| E. | Items that may be forged | IRONWARE |
| F. | In no position to call a pitch? (hyph.) | TONEDEAF |
| G. | Pad see ew and such (2 wds.) | THAIFOOD |
| H. | Likely result of procrastination (2 wds.) | LOSTTIME |
| I. | In poetry, "love" and "rove," for example (2 wds.) | EYERHYME |
| J. | Score word meaning "to be played with tender feeling" | AFFETTUOSO |
| K. | It often appears next to an apostrophe (2 wds.) | RETURNKEY |
| L. | Reputation that isn't good | NOTORIETY |
| M. | Answer L., but worse | INFAMY |
| N. | Opposite of an old hand | NEWCOMER |
| O. | University of Minnesota athletes | GOPHERS |
| P. | Prickly issue for gardeners | THISTLE |
| Q. | Words of a passage | OBITUARY |
| R. | Digit that's sometimes vestigial | DEWCLAW |
| S. | People who are on and headed for home | RUNNERS |
| T. | "Would that it were!" (2 wds.) | IFONLY |
| U. | Be like a couch potato | VEGETATE |
| V. | Like the stuff of ceramic pots | EARTHEN |