(JOHN) UPDIKE: HUB FANS BID KID ADIEU — Fenway Park ... is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus ... . It ... offers a compromise between Man's Euclidean determinations and Nature's beguiling irregularities.
| A. | Figure in blue | UMPIRE |
| B. | 1955 film with the song "Moonglow" | PICNIC |
| C. | Penny dreadful (2 wds.) | DIMENOVEL |
| D. | Official approval | IMPRIMATUR |
| E. | Smoked, chopped and spiced meat | KIELBASA |
| F. | Drink often served with grated nutmeg | EGGNOG |
| G. | Ubiquitous dipteran | HOUSEFLY |
| H. | Extraordinary, preternatural | UNCANNY |
| I. | Broad leap with a battement | BALLONNE |
| J. | "I now close my military career and just ___" (2 wds.; Douglas MacArthur) | FADEAWAY |
| K. | Hold oneself back | ABSTAIN |
| L. | Trophy for hockey's best defenseman | NORRIS |
| M. | Sets a course | STEERS |
| N. | Song of a Venetian gondolier | BARCAROLE |
| O. | Greek maiden sacrificed to gain favorable winds | IPHIGENIA |
| P. | Unpleasant experience, slangily | DOWNER |
| Q. | Disorder, uproar, confusion | KERFUFFLE |
| R. | Assertion without proof (2 wds.) | IPSEDIXIT |
| S. | Deliberate loser | DIETER |
| T. | Husband of Queen Victoria | ALBERT |
| U. | Sirius (2 wds.) | DOGSTAR |
| V. | Twinkling, flash, jiffy | INSTANT |
| W. | Montaigne, for one | ESSAYIST |
| X. | Raconteur in Joel Chandler Harris tales (2 wds.) | UNCLEREMUS |