(MEL) ROSEN (AND STAN KURZBAN), PUZZLE MAKER'S HANDBOOK — You will discover a tempo to... acrostic puzzles. At first the paucity of known letters allows... only snaillike progress. But with a few... lucky wild guesses, a... glimmer of recognition breaks the stalemate and the pace quickens.
| A. | Fish that attaches itself to sharks by means of a sucking disk | REMORA |
| B. | Government in the hands of a few | OLIGARCHY |
| C. | Element obtained by the Frasch process | SULFUR |
| D. | Milton's "Lycidas" or Arnold's "Thyrsis" | ELEGY |
| E. | Diamond figure's dream come true (hyph.) | NOHITTER |
| F. | "In old days men had the rack. Now they have the ___" (Wilde) | PRESS |
| G. | Frank, open, direct (hyph.) | UPFRONT |
| H. | General characteristics of a particular period | ZEITGEIST |
| I. | Photographer's tool (2 wds.) | ZOOMLENS |
| J. | Home run (2 wds.) | LONGBALL |
| K. | One whose court testimony is crucial | EYEWITNESS |
| L. | British nobleman ranking below a duke | MARQUESS |
| M. | Behaving in an artificial way to impress | AFFECTED |
| N. | Site of a 59-second flight (2 wds.) | KITTYHAWK |
| O. | Supposed emanation from a spiritualist | ECTOPLASM |
| P. | Country bumpkin | RUSTIC |
| Q. | Galatea, before Aphrodite's gift | STATUE |
| R. | Attack; strike (2 wds.) | HAVEAT |
| S. | Admit formally; receive with favor | ACCEPT |
| T. | Bay of ___, inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea | NAPLES |
| U. | Antelope less than two feet tall (hyph.) | DIKDIK |
| V. | Name for the theory that language evolved from the imitations of natural sounds | BOWWOW |
| W. | 1 followed by 27 zeros | OCTILLION |
| X. | Eyelike spot on a peacock feather | OCELLUS |
| Y. | Civic group founded in 1915 | KIWANIS |