(JOHN) UPDIKE, SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS — I tend... to resist dropping consonants... elongating "Worcester" as "Woooster" in acknowledgment of the spurned letters. I pronounce words as they look in print, and hence consistently mispronounce "monk," "sponge" and "Wodehouse."
| A. | Fomenting mischief (4 wds.) | UPTONOGOOD |
| B. | Potentially explosive situation (2 wds.) | POWDERKEG |
| C. | Orator who railed against Philip of Macedon | DEMOSTHENES |
| D. | Person with no knowledge of evil | INNOCENT |
| E. | Dough folded over a filling and baked | KNISH |
| F. | City called the "Gateway to the North" | EDMONTON |
| G. | A tip of the slung? | SPOONERISM |
| H. | Study or doctrine concerning the end of the world | ESCHATOLOGY |
| I. | He said "When there is freedom, there will be no state" | LENIN |
| J. | Completely dry, as a racetrack | FAST |
| K. | Form an X | CRISSCROSS |
| L. | Stealthily (2 wds.) | ONTIPTOE |
| M. | Assets minus liabilities (2 wds.) | NETWORTH |
| N. | Movie star whose first film role was in "Julia," 1977 | STREEP |
| O. | Famous resident of Alcatraz, 1934-39 | CAPONE |
| P. | Not easily cowed | INTREPID |
| Q. | Unconscious, as from a conking (2 wds.) | OUTCOLD |
| R. | Like an aquanaut's element | UNDERWATER |
| S. | Bronzed appearance | SUNTAN |
| T. | Longtime Chrysler series that debuted in 1939 (2 wds.) | NEWYORKER |
| U. | Subject of Browning's "Home-thoughts, from Abroad" | ENGLAND |
| V. | After oxygen, the most abundant element in the earth's crust | SILICON |
| W. | Last act (2 wds.) | SWANSONG |