LAURIE COLWIN, HOME COOKING — "I'm stuffing the turkey this year," I told my sister. She was much relieved. ... After all, an unstuffed turkey is like a jigsaw puzzle of the American flag with a piece missing... in the middle. Now... all was restored to order.
| A. | Antonio Stradivari, for one | LUTHIER |
| B. | Emotional remoteness (2 wds.) | ARMSLENGTH |
| C. | Loose, heavy overcoat, often belted | ULSTER |
| D. | "What has four wheels and flies?," e.g. | RIDDLE |
| E. | Wave transmitted through a nerve fiber | IMPULSE |
| F. | Part of Manhattan (2 wds.) | EASTSIDE |
| G. | Frankfurter with sauce served on a bun, named after an "island" | CONEY |
| H. | Mountain peak first successfully scaled by humans in 1913 | OLYMPUS |
| I. | Realistic, natural | LIFELIKE |
| J. | One of Gandalf's or Saruman's kind | WIZARD |
| K. | Mickey Spillane caper filmed in 1953 in 3-D (3 wds.) | ITHEJURY |
| L. | Just invented, but of dubious value | NEWFANGLED |
| M. | Start, in the manner of some thieves (hyph.) | HOTWIRE |
| N. | Mob code of silence | OMERTA |
| O. | Acted swiftly, rushed (2 wds.) | MADEHASTE |
| P. | Martin Sheen's surname at birth | ESTEVEZ |
| Q. | Therapeutic release of repressed feelings | CATHARSIS |
| R. | Sequence containing a blooper, perhaps | OUTTAKE |
| S. | Not allowed to be visited (hyph.) | OFFLIMITS |
| T. | Epithet for Louisiana's Huey Long | KINGFISH |
| U. | Adriatic Sea peninsula | ISTRIA |
| V. | Fictional sleuth introduced in 1930 (2 wds.) | NANCYDREW |
| W. | Sound gratifying to a comedian (2 wds.) | GUFFAW |