SETH GODIN, SMALL IS THE NEW BIG — Lobbying for daylight saving time started... about one hundred years ago (just eighty years after time was standardized... [B]efore trains traversed the Continent, it didn't... matter that time was different in different towns).
A. | Oldest U.S. state capital (2 wds.) | SANTAFE |
B. | Hang on through thick and thin | ENDURE |
C. | Laugh while trying not to | TITTER |
D. | Hydrotherapy device (2 wds.) | HOTTUB |
E. | High-tech doodads | GADGETRY |
F. | Not working (2 wds.) | OFFDUTY |
G. | Like two-dimensional map projections | DISTORTED |
H. | Use Schedule A when filing | ITEMIZE |
I. | Idle chitchat, empty blather | NATTERING |
J. | Orderly way of proceeding | SYSTEM |
K. | Titular diarist of a Gogol story | MADMAN |
L. | Having no particular goal or destination | ADRIFT |
M. | Transport for many a corporate executive | LEARJET |
N. | Pirate involved in the Battle of New Orleans | LAFITTE |
O. | Stated succinctly (2 wds.) | INBRIEF |
P. | Weapons research lab in New Mexico | SANDIA |
Q. | Unattractive bottom feeder | TOADFISH |
R. | Tool that can be played with a bow | HANDSAW |
S. | Brand whose logo is a cat jumping through the number 9 | EVEREADY |
T. | Total assets less total liabilities (2 wds.) | NETWORTH |
U. | Surrounding area, vicinity, purlieu | ENVIRONS |
V. | Rock concert souvenir of sorts | WRISTBAND |
W. | Water under the bridge | BYGONES |
X. | Stake; concern | INTEREST |
Y. | Hit the jackpot, maybe (2 wds.) | GOTRICH |