ELIF BATUMAN, THE POSSESSED — Every morning I called Aeroflot to ask about my suitcase. "Oh, it's you," sighed the clerk. "When we find the suitcase we will send it to you. In the meantime, are you familiar with our Russian phrase 'resignation of the soul'?"
| A. | Oprah Winfrey, relative to Rosa Parks in 2005 | EULOGIST |
| B. | Musician whose first band was the Quarrymen | LENNON |
| C. | Reptile with a spiny back | IGUANA |
| D. | Cookout for pescatarians (2 wds.) | FISHFRY |
| E. | Windy conversationalist | BLOWHARD |
| F. | Coiled fossil shell of a mollusk | AMMONITE |
| G. | Fail to control one's temper (3 wds.) | THROWAFIT |
| H. | Prop for a circus clown | UNICYCLE |
| I. | Title for Camus or Sartre | MONSIEUR |
| J. | Tune from which "Love Me Tender" derives (2 wds.) | AURALEE |
| K. | Saint from the Lycian town of Myra | NICHOLAS |
| L. | Hard-to-solve puzzle | TOUGHIE |
| M. | Abominable | HEINOUS |
| N. | Like a photographic memory | EIDETIC |
| O. | Part of a desktop setup | PRINTER |
| P. | One way of thinking or laughing (2 wds.) | OUTLOUD |
| Q. | Cat breed in "Lady and the Tramp" | SIAMESE |
| R. | Go all to pieces | SHATTER |
| S. | In bygone days, but no longer | ERSTWHILE |
| T. | Means of capital conversion? (2 wds.) | SHIFTKEY |
| U. | One hoping for a free ride | STOWAWAY |
| V. | Domain of a prince | EMIRATE |
| W. | Author of "The Idiot" | DOSTOEVSKY |