ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, HIS LAST BOW — His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his... revolver practice within doors, his weird... scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of... danger... around him... made him the very worst tenant in London.
| A. | Having no flaws or weaknesses; invulnerable | AIRTIGHT |
| B. | Author of "How the Other Half Lives" | RIIS |
| C. | Jean Genet play involving a poisoning (2 wds.) | THEMAIDS |
| D. | Guitarist who recorded "Electric Ladyland" | HENDRIX |
| E. | England : lion :: Scotland : ___ | UNICORN |
| F. | Largest of the Dodecanese Islands | RHODES |
| G. | Light and frothy, as with stiffly beaten egg whites | CHIFFON |
| H. | Resonant; bombastic | OROTUND |
| I. | Ignorant; agnostic | NESCIENT |
| J. | They refuse to bear arms or take oaths | AMISH |
| K. | Ancient capital of Assyria with ruins on the Tigris | NINEVEH |
| L. | Bumstead's boss in the comics | DITHERS |
| M. | Atypical or unconventional person or thing (3 wds.) | ODDMANOUT |
| N. | Go-getting city dwellers | YUPPIES |
| O. | "Main Street" novelist | LEWIS |
| P. | Footprints, gunpowder residue, etc. | EVIDENCE |
| Q. | Evergreen shrub with scalelike leaves | HEATHER |
| R. | Tasteless; dull | INSIPID |
| S. | Critical, uncommitted pollgoer (2 wds.) | SWINGVOTER |
| T. | Dog's delivery | LITTER |
| U. | Check the spread of | ARREST |
| V. | Suburbanite stereotype (2 wds.) | SOCCERMOM |
| W. | Chief of a Scottish clan | THANE |
| X. | Jazz club named for Charlie Parker | BIRDLAND |
| Y. | Pertaining to the sense of smell | OSMATIC |
| Z. | Chronicler of the quotation's subject | WATSON |