PRIMO LEVI: THE PERIODIC TABLE — [Phosphorus] is in the tips of matches, and girls driven desperate by love ate them to commit suicide; it is in will-o'-the-wisps, putrid flames fleeing before the wayfarer. No, it is not an emotionally neutral element.
| A. | Derringer or revolver, e.g. | PISTOL |
| B. | Composer of the 1817 opera "Cinderella" | ROSSINI |
| C. | Not wearing a stitch (3 wds.) | INTHEBUFF |
| D. | Diarist's publication | MEMOIR |
| E. | Fat substitute approved by the F.D.A. in 1996 | OLESTRA |
| F. | River creature that can breathe air | LUNGFISH |
| G. | Phantom, apparition | EIDOLON |
| H. | Matador's maneuver made without moving the legs | VERONICA |
| I. | Designer of Denver's Mile High Center (3 wds.) | IMPEI |
| J. | Party game fad of the 1960's | TWISTER |
| K. | 1950 film starring Jimmy Stewart | HARVEY |
| L. | Of the same order as armadillos and sloths | EDENTATE |
| M. | Service-ending organ piece | POSTLUDE |
| N. | Walking in another's shoes | EMPATHY |
| O. | Sports columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 (2 wds.) | REDSMITH |
| P. | 5,000-year-old Tyrolean a k a Otzi (2 wds.) | ICEMAN |
| Q. | Vellum's shade (hyph.) | OFFWHITE |
| R. | 1974 Super Bowl champs | DOLPHINS |
| S. | Wife of King Mark in Arthurian legend | ISEULT |
| T. | Bavaria's Neuschwanstein, for one | CASTLE |
| U. | The largest of Neptune's moons | TRITON |
| V. | Sweet liqueur used as cookie flavoring | ANISETTE |
| W. | Calcutta's region | BENGAL |
| X. | Figure in a case | LAWYER |
| Y. | Town where The Oaks was first run in 1779 | EPSOM |