RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ESSAYS — We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
| A. | Mad scramble, competitive struggle (2 wds.) | RATRACE |
| B. | Too confused to think straight | ADDLEPATED |
| C. | Entice, as with false hopes (2 wds.) | LEADON |
| D. | Outbreak of anxiety (2 wds.) | PANICATTACK |
| E. | "Take the hobnail express" (2 wds.) | HOOFIT |
| F. | He wrote, "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" | WORDSWORTH |
| G. | Foment | AGITATE |
| H. | Job for the strong; moving like giants | LUMBERING |
| I. | Filled with dismay | DAUNTED |
| J. | Financial blunder | OVERDRAFT |
| K. | Big name in the investment business (3 wds.) | EFHUTTON |
| L. | Riches regarded as an object of worship | MAMMON |
| M. | Fleeing reality by way of the imagination | ESCAPISM |
| N. | Paid off; liberated morally | REDEEMED |
| O. | "Forbear to judge, for we are ___ all" ("King Henry VI") | SINNERS |
| P. | Those in the opposite economic situation from one's own (2 wds.) | OTHERHALF |
| Q. | Period of prayers and services | NOVENA |
| R. | Stocky actor voicing the lead in 1996's "The Story of Santa Claus" (2 wds.) | EDASNER |
| S. | Those exceptionally meek, patient, charitable, etc. | SAINTS |
| T. | Like a weapon no longer deployed for combat | SHEATHED |
| U. | Personification of wisdom and the arts whose sacred tree was the olive | ATHENA |
| V. | Activity following a period of inactivity | YAWNING |
| W. | "Peace" | SHALOM |