P(ETER) HARNIK, FROM RAILS TO TRAILS — The rail-trail is laid onto the detritus of a surpassed technology …. [B]icyclists, walkers, runners … and even snowmobilers are merely Johnny-come-lately beneficiaries of a … network created … for a totally different purpose.
The rail-trail is laid on[to] the detritus of a surpassed technology. [Today's] bicyclists, walkers, runners, [skaters, skiers, equestrians,] and even snowmobilers are merely Johnny-come-lately beneficiaries of a [surface] network created [by radically different people] for a totally different purpose.
| A. | Calf-hugging attire (2 wds.) | PEDALPUSHERS |
| B. | Kind of mustache for Mr. Monopoly | HANDLEBAR |
| C. | Means of murder in Agatha Christie's "What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!" | ARSENIC |
| D. | Converts tires into playground surfaces, e.g. | RECYCLES |
| E. | Abrogated, voided | NULLIFIED |
| F. | Nickname for Lou Gehrig, with "the" (2 wds.) | IRONHORSE |
| G. | Wedge-shaped piece in an arch | KEYSTONE |
| H. | In better shape; position at a tailor's shop | FITTER |
| I. | Certain spent fuel | RADWASTE |
| J. | Dehumanize, in a way; reduce to a means to an end | OBJECTIFY |
| K. | Frequent events in the history of the train industry | MERGERS |
| L. | English ancestor of baseball | ROUNDERS |
| M. | City that precedes Answer S. in a 1944 song title | ATCHISON |
| N. | Opposite of certain | IFFY |
| O. | Capable of independent movement; another term for Answer F. | LOCOMOTIVE |
| P. | All over the place | STREWN |
| Q. | Abductee in a basket, in film | TOTO |
| R. | First U.S. liberal arts college to admit women (1837) | OBERLIN |
| S. | Home of the board of education in Brown v. Board of Education | TOPEKA |
| T. | One who swipes bovines or ovines | RUSTLER |
| U. | Rare sort of passage in Manhattan | ALLEYWAY |
| V. | "Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in ____": H. L. Mencken | ITALIAN |
| W. | First Tour de France champion to ride on a carbon fiber frame | LEMOND |
| X. | Capital in the Sangre de Cristo foothills (2 wds.) | SANTAFE |