UMBERTO ECO, THE NAME OF THE ROSE — A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands... so the librarian protects the books... against nature... and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
| A. | Like a manuscript in an in-box | UNREAD |
| B. | Microscopic arachnid | MITE |
| C. | Someone immersed in religion | BAPTIST |
| D. | Wordworker? | EDITOR |
| E. | Character like Compeyson in "Great Expectations" | RAKE |
| F. | 1965 John Fowles novel set on the island of Phraxos (2 wds.) | THEMAGUS |
| G. | Three-folded sheet of eight leaves | OCTAVO |
| H. | Output of David Sedaris, Susan Sontag or George Orwell | ESSAYS |
| I. | Series of literary study guides in pamphlet form (2 wds., no space) | CLIFFSNOTES |
| J. | Superannuated | OBSOLETE |
| K. | Entrance or starting point, as of a new career | THRESHOLD |
| L. | Nutty partier sketched by John Tenniel | HATTER |
| M. | Cultural creed or character | ETHOS |
| N. | Odist whose name is an anagram of Word A | NERUDA |
| O. | "When the gods wish to punish us they ___ our prayers" (Wilde) | ANSWER |
| P. | Maverick, dropout, loner | MISFIT |
| Q. | Decadent; sterile; exhausted | EFFETE |
| R. | Not currently connected | OFFLINE |
| S. | Reaction to a Grand Guignol | FRIGHT |
| T. | Reappearance of an ancestral type | THROWBACK |
| U. | Site of an Ernest Hemingway estate | HAVANA |
| V. | Poet who wrote "Burnt Norton" (1936) | ELIOT |
| W. | Satirical penner of "Gargantua and Pantagruel" | RABELAIS |
| X. | Play unfolding in Grover's Corners (2 wds.) | OURTOWN |
| Y. | Chekhov's Olga, Masha and Irina, e.g. | SISTERS |
| Z. | Handy manual, from the Greek | ENCHIRIDION |