REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, KINDRED -- Larger and deeper-set eyes gazed out from a face whose nose and mouth seemed pulled forwards, but with swept-back cheekbones. Framing all this were magnificent... brow ridges... . [T]he brain inside... was just as big... as your own.
Larger and deeper-set eyes gazed out from a face whose nose and mouth seemed pulled forwards, but with swept-back cheekbones. Framing all this were magnificent arched brow ridges; nor centrally separated like your brows, and much more imposing. But the brain inside — controlling those eyes staring intently back at you — was just as big and deliberating as your own.
| A. | Engines imparting thrust to missiles | RAMJETS |
| B. | Old-fashioned word for "hungry" | ESURIENT |
| C. | Spot for some suds | BREWPUB |
| D. | "That's all folks" for Mel Blanc, e.g. | EPITAPH |
| E. | Paper folds | CREASES |
| F. | Frequent subjects of Frederic Remington paintings | COWBOYS |
| G. | Device emitting a fine spray | ATOMIZER |
| H. | "Cinghiale" on Italian menus (2 wds.) | WILDBOAR |
| I. | Kitchen patrol job | RINSING |
| J. | Chilling, say (2 wds.) | ATEASE |
| K. | British city where the first international football match was held, 1872 | GLASGOW |
| L. | Popular carnival prize that's alive | GOLDFISH |
| M. | Debut's opposite (2 wds.) | SWANSONG |
| N. | Cameroon's capital | YAOUNDE |
| O. | Hard to untie, say | KNOTTED |
| P. | Player of Andy Bernard on "The Office" (2 wds.) | EDHELMS |
| Q. | Shade tree that drops prickly pods (2 wds.) | SWEETGUM |
| R. | Mama's wear in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" | KERCHIEF |
| S. | Film of 1984 featuring the quote's subject | ICEMAN |
| T. | Like the quote's subject | NEANDERTHAL |
| U. | Made to look puny in comparison | DWARFED |
| V. | Claptrap, bunkum, hogwash | RUBBISH |
| W. | Cajun or Creole stew cooked in a covered pan | ETOUFFEE |
| X. | Attracts; stalemates | DRAWS |