H(ARUKI) MURAKAMI, KAFKA ON THE SHORE—[I]nside our heads … there’s a little room where we store … memories. A room like the stacks in [a] library. [T]o understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. … in [our] own private library.
[Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But I]nside our heads [– at least that's where I imagine it –] there's a little room where we store [those] memories. A room like the stacks in [this] [a] library. [And][T]o understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards.[We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever] in [your] [our] own private library.
| A. | Where the studious do research at Widener | HARVARD |
| B. | Wooer of Marian Paroo on Broadway, with "the" (2 wds.) | MUSICMAN |
| C. | Less qualified | UNWORTHIER |
| D. | Savor erstwhile larks, say | REMINISCE |
| E. | When the sequel to a book is typically written | AFTERWARD |
| F. | Fanny, bottom, rear end | KEISTER |
| G. | "We live in a society ... that depends on public ____" (Angela Davis) | AMNESIA |
| H. | Basement property, typically | MUSTINESS |
| I. | Word with medicine or combustion | INTERNAL |
| J. | Founder of the company that famously supplied breakfasts for Apollo 11 | KELLOGG |
| K. | Postulated, deductive (2 wds.) | APRIORI |
| L. | Narrative technique known formally as "analepsis" | FLASHBACK |
| M. | Practical ability, experience, chops (hyph.) | KNOWHOW |
| N. | Anatomical rings | AREOLAE |
| O. | Outstanding, in a way | OVERDUE |
| P. | More partial to puzzles than people, perhaps | NERDY |
| Q. | Succinct communication | TWEET |
| R. | One often checked out | HOTTIE |
| S. | Utopian satire of 1872 whose title is an anagram of NOWHERE | EREWHON |
| T. | Make more attractive | SWEETEN |
| U. | Dr. Seuss character with friends in Whoville | HORTON |
| V. | Alphabetize or catalog | ORDER |
| W. | Warehouse or archives | REPOSITORY |
| X. | The first one was the Declaration of Independence, in 1971 (hyph.) | EBOOK |