(ALISON) LURIE, BOYS AND GIRLS FOREVER — In... Oz, women rule... . [T]he Emerald City is governed by... the Wizard of Oz, but it presently becomes clear that he is an incompetent phony... . [B]y the end of the second volume,... Oz has a female sovereign,... Ozma... who began life... as a... boy.
In Frank Baum's Oz, women rule all the good societies and some of the bad ones. At the start of the series the Emerald City is governed by a man, the Wizard of Oz, but it presently becomes clear that he is an incompetent phony with no magical powers. For a short time after volume 1 the Emerald City is governed by Dorothy's friend the Scarecrow, but by the end of the second volume, and for the remainder of the series, not only the capital but the entire Land of Oz has a female sovereign, Princess Ozma: a pretty little girl who began life under an enchantment as a pretty little boy.
| A. | Nickname for a loafer or sluggard | LAZYBONES |
| B. | State where the climactic scene of "Thelma & Louise" was shot | UTAH |
| C. | Piece of writing before it's polished (2 wds.) | ROUGHDRAFT |
| D. | Post-czarist newspaper | IZVESTIA |
| E. | Term with Greek roots meaning "household management" | ECONOMY |
| F. | High muck-a-muck (2 wds.) | BIGCHEESE |
| G. | Verve, flair, gusto | OOMPH |
| H. | Gender-bending title role of 1983 | YENTL |
| I. | Means of seeing who's at the door | SPYHOLE |
| J. | River named for its 16th-century explorers' native attackers | AMAZON |
| K. | Work by Anne Rice or Ayn Rand | NOVEL |
| L. | Setting for many Dorothea Lange photos, done for the 1937-46 Farm Security Administration (2 wds.) | DUSTBOWL |
| M. | Like the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp | GEOMETRIC |
| N. | Song sung by Kate in "Kiss Me, Kate" (3 wds.) | IHATEMEN |
| O. | Scarf of a type worn by Frida Kahlo | REBOZO |
| P. | Abandoned, ditched (2 wds.) | LEFTBEHIND |
| Q. | Instrument played by some geishas | SAMISEN |
| R. | Social superfluity (2 wds.) | FIFTHWHEEL |
| S. | Gas monitored using balloons | OZONE |
| T. | 1967 #1 hit that starts "What you want / Baby, I got it" | RESPECT |
| U. | Beguiling visuals (2 wds.) | EYECANDY |
| V. | Lushly green | VERDANT |
| W. | Directive in literature that leads to rapid growth (2 wds.) | EATME |
| X. | Design on a gay pride flag | RAINBOW |