ORVILLE (AND WILBUR) WRIGHT, TELEGRAM — Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one-mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.
| A. | Whom Mentor counseled | ODYSSEUS |
| B. | There and back (2 wds.) | ROUNDTRIP |
| C. | 1958 release listed in the National Film Registry | VERTIGO |
| D. | Region where radio waves are reflected | IONOSPHERE |
| E. | Youths at a ceilidh | LADS |
| F. | Battle of Britain force | LUFTWAFFE |
| G. | Austrian physicist who contributed to the study of sound (2 wds.) | ERNSTMACH |
| H. | Spinning toy; flighty person | WHIRLIGIG |
| I. | Where fashion models tread | RUNWAYS |
| J. | Standing by, ready for action (3 wds.) | INTHEWINGS |
| K. | Songbird of which a group is called a charm | GOLDFINCH |
| L. | Ones who take the wheel on board | HELMSMEN |
| M. | Guns; strangles | THROTTLES |
| N. | "There are three roads to ruin: women, gambling, and ___" (Georges Pompidou) | TECHNICIANS |
| O. | B-29 that carried Little Boy (2 wds.) | ENOLAGAY |
| P. | Imposing height; elevated style | LOFTINESS |
| Q. | Wrapper | ENVELOPE |
| R. | Oleaginous, lubricious | GREASY |
| S. | Equip with parts not originally available | RETROFIT |
| T. | Instrument used to measure a breeze's velocity | ANEMOMETER |
| U. | Orchestrators of complicated projects | MASTERMINDS |