ROBERT COOVER, (Whatever Happened to) GLOOMY GUS (of the Chicago Bears?) — Football is not about violence…, it's about balance. The line of scrimmage is a fulcrum, not a frontier…. The struggle is not for property, it's for… freedom…. Of course, I admit most footballers are probably ignorant of all this.
| A. | Mechanical action film title character | ROBOCOP |
| B. | 1936 musical involving jazz ballet (3 wds.) | ONYOURTOES |
| C. | Dark and heavy type | BOLDFACE |
| D. | College group of 538 | ELECTORS |
| E. | Common problem area for drummers and quarterbacks (2 wds.) | ROTATORCUFF |
| F. | Site of a storied showdown in 1881 | TOMBSTONE |
| G. | Aid for Itzhak Perlman (2 wds.) | CHINREST |
| H. | Best a la Br'er Rabbit | OUTSMART |
| I. | Star arrangement a k a the Three Kings (2 wds.) | ORIONSBELT |
| J. | Big Apple neighborhood, with "the" | VILLAGE |
| K. | View from Checkpoint Charlie (2 wds.) | EASTBERLIN |
| L. | Pursue, try to catch (2 wds.) | RUNAFTER |
| M. | Policy of treating the whole world as one's sphere of political influence | GLOBALISM |
| N. | Seducer in Nicholas Rowe's "The Fair Penitent" (1703) | LOTHARIO |
| O. | Violation costing five yards | OFFSIDE |
| P. | One who knows Puccini from Ponchielli, say (2 wds.) | OPERABUFF |
| Q. | Where wrestling, horse racing and archery are the "three manly games" | MONGOLIA |
| R. | Michigan city that shares its name with a modern Greek war hero | YPSILANTI |
| S. | Round up; harvest (2 wds.) | GATHERIN |
| T. | Sport whose object is to pass into an end zone | ULTIMATE |
| U. | Feature of the Heisman Trophy figure's pose (hyph.) | STIFFARM |