DEBORAH PAPIER, INSIGHT — For months they have lain in wait,... lurking in... forgotten corners... . [N]ow they are upon us, sodden with alcohol, their massive bodies bulging with strange green protuberances... — there is no escape, it is the hour of the fruitcake.
| A. | Food-raising device | DUMBWAITER |
| B. | Top-to-bottom, altogether (2 wds.) | EVERYINCH |
| C. | Factotum at a resort hotel | BELLHOP |
| D. | Child; runner | OFFSHOOT |
| E. | Springing back with fresh vigor | RENASCENT |
| F. | Saint ___, the first archbishop of Canterbury | AUGUSTINE |
| G. | Supercharged, full of energy (hyph.) | HIGHOCTANE |
| H. | Immaculate, untouched | PRISTINE |
| I. | Religious piece by Charles Gounod (2 wds.) | AVEMARIA |
| J. | Arizona town hosting an annual Cowboy Poets Gathering | PRESCOTT |
| K. | Sporting dog called a Modder Rhu in Gaelic (2 wds.) | IRISHSETTER |
| L. | Tellurian | EARTHLING |
| M. | Boxing punch delivered to the side of the head with an exaggerated swing | ROUNDHOUSE |
| N. | Actively being developed (3 wds.) | INTHEWORKS |
| O. | Something bound to be used by students | NOTEBOOK |
| P. | Heliotropic bloomer revered in the Inca Empire | SUNFLOWER |
| Q. | Glacial mass over Greenland and Antarctica (2 wds.) | ICESHEET |
| R. | 1939 film vaguely based on a Kipling poem (2 wds.) | GUNGADIN |
| S. | Like Grand Guignol drama | HORRIFYING |
| T. | "Star Search" or "American Idol," e.g. (2 wds.) | TALENTSHOW |