(LEANNE) SHAPTON, SWIMMING STUDIES — Trying to define what swimming means to me is like looking at a shell... in... clear, still water. ... [O]nce I reach for it, breaking the surface, the ripples refract the shell... and I blindly feel for what I saw perfectly before... .
| A. | Car chase sound effect | SCREECH |
| B. | Clifford ____, chief engineer of a tunnel under the Hudson | HOLLAND |
| C. | Great beyond | AFTERLIFE |
| D. | Bicker, niggle, squabble | PETTIFOG |
| E. | Reconsider (2 wds.) | THINKTWICE |
| F. | Suggestion; donation | OFFERING |
| G. | Accordion inlay material, often | NACRE |
| H. | Habitat for rails and eelgrass (2 wds.) | SALTMARSH |
| I. | Professor Lupin of Hogwarts, e.g. | WEREWOLF |
| J. | Roman's counterpart | ITALICS |
| K. | Convert from inches, feet and miles, say | METRIFY |
| L. | Accessory for the wary tourist (2 wds.) | MONEYBELT |
| M. | Dukedom of Shakespeare's Orsino | ILLYRIA |
| N. | Goatsucker that feeds on flying insects | NIGHTHAWK |
| O. | Companion policy to perestroika | GLASNOST |
| P. | Cord associated with a doubly slipped reef knot | SHOELACE |
| Q. | Dance in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (2 wds.) | TIMEWARP |
| R. | Like a Corvair, per a 1965 Ralph Nader book | UNSAFE |
| S. | Marine creature related to the hippopotamus | DOLPHIN |
| T. | Drunk | INEBRIATED |
| U. | Linda _____, host of "Nick News" | ELLERBEE |
| V. | Position played by Mia Hamm or Lionel Messi | STRIKER |