BARNES: FLAUBERT'S PARROT — Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all. ... you trust the mystifier more if you know he's deliberately choosing not to be lucid. You trust Picasso all the way because he could draw like Ingres.
| A. | A glow from something living, such as a firefly | BIOLUMINESCENCE |
| B. | With tender feeling, in music direction | AFFETTUOSO |
| C. | Winter apple with a rough, brownish skin | RUSSET |
| D. | Decorative alloy containing sulfur | NIELLO |
| E. | Austrian physicist who promoted logical positivism (2 wds.) | ERNSTMACH |
| F. | Way up in the air (hyph.) | SKYHIGH |
| G. | Exaggerated account, as of one's successes (2 wds.) | FISHSTORY |
| H. | Alan Jay Lerner in Lerner and Loewe musicals | LYRICIST |
| I. | Eggplant, or its dark purple color | AUBERGINE |
| J. | Final offer or demand | ULTIMATUM |
| K. | Texas county named for an Alamo hero | BOWIE |
| L. | Using artificial and bombastic speech | EUPHUISTIC |
| M. | Cosmological effect involving wavelengths of light (2 wds.) | REDSHIFT |
| N. | Gallery showing many J. M. W. Turner works | TATE |
| O. | Jumpy, easily frightened | SKITTISH |
| P. | Among social insects, the condition of having two or more queens in a colony | POLYGYNY |
| Q. | Spanish or Southwestern U.S. mayor | ALCALDE |
| R. | TV show on which Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates | RAWHIDE |
| S. | Sovereign status | ROYALTY |
| T. | Playwright who said, "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast" (2 wds.) | OSCARWILDE |
| U. | "Bye-bye!" (hyph.) | TOODLEOO |