(WALT) WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN PRIMER — The appetite of the people of these States, in popular speeches and writings, is for unhemmed latitude, coarseness, directness, live epithets, expletives, words of opprobrium.... I understand because I have the taste myself.
| A. | Online video gamer's exclamation of joy | WOOT |
| B. | Someone who's really got "it" (2 wds.) | HOTSTUFF |
| C. | With heels over head | INVERTED |
| D. | Achievement of a dynastic sports franchise | THREEPEAT |
| E. | Follower of John and Charles Wesley | METHODIST |
| F. | Codicil or addendum | APPENDIX |
| G. | Support at the end of a flight (2 wds.) | NEWELPOST |
| H. | Red who was with the Boston Celtics for 56 years | AUERBACH |
| I. | Phobia, anxiety or hypochondria | NEUROSIS |
| J. | Where a centerboard is located | AMIDSHIPS |
| K. | Condition of imposed inactivity, metaphorically | MOTHBALLS |
| L. | Edmond Dantes, with respect to the Chateau d'If | ESCAPEE |
| M. | Having experienced oxcart traffic, say | RUTTED |
| N. | Overrun to a point of botheration | INFESTED |
| O. | Upbeat, bright, optimistic | CHEERFUL |
| P. | What may go down the hatch preprandially | APERITIF |
| Q. | Fresh convert; rookie | NEOPHYTE |
| R. | That in which history is written (2 wds.) | PASTTENSE |
| S. | Got to run faster (2 wds.) | REVVEDUP |
| T. | Having two-legged equality | ISOSCELES |
| U. | Item designed to strike from a distance | MISSILE |
| V. | Covert gathering of intelligence | ESPIONAGE |
| W. | What's signaled by a black box among five horizontal lines | REST |