AMY LEACH, THINGS THAT ARE — [T]he Jackson's chameleon... will by mistake grab... its own forehead-horns and then panic, wrestling itself, frantic to escape its own... grasp, a one-reptile bedlam... . As... sunbeams... mix... around the thrashing chameleon, it can shift... hues... .
| A. | Surrounding, as sound or light | AMBIENT |
| B. | Author of "Gone With the Wind" | MITCHELL |
| C. | Establishment often headed by a commodore (2 wds.) | YACHTCLUB |
| D. | Numbskull, nitwit, moron | LAMEBRAIN |
| E. | Enlarge, stretch, dilate | EXPAND |
| F. | Starry pattern, constellation | ASTERISM |
| G. | Bad place for a bull (2 wds.) | CHINASHOP |
| H. | Comic strip about a wisecracking cat | HEATHCLIFF |
| I. | Game Eva Gabor famously played on TV with Johnny Carson in 1966 | TWISTER |
| J. | Product of manual labor | HANDIWORK |
| K. | Going on and on and on and on | INCESSANT |
| L. | Procedure for amending a bill? (2 wds.) | NOSEJOB |
| M. | Fine, filmy cobweb | GOSSAMER |
| N. | The old man in "The Old Man and the Sea" | SANTIAGO |
| O. | Brontophobia trigger | THUNDERCLAP |
| P. | Connie in the Basketball Hall of Fame | HAWKINS |
| Q. | Deification; highest ideal | APOTHEOSIS |
| R. | Boy Scout rank below Second Class | TENDERFOOT |
| S. | What a colored ribbon may signify nowadays | AWARENESS |
| T. | Brightly shining, luminous | REFULGENT |
| U. | Soldiers on the losing side at Hastings | ENGLISHMEN |