(CHARLES) KURALT, DATELINE AMERICA — The [Minnesota] state seal... should be changed to ice cubes rampant on a field of white, a grinning, barefoot Swede in a... T-shirt riding a snowmobile, and a shivering visitor whose stricken breath is freezing into... crystals.
| A. | Advise without consent | KIBITZ |
| B. | Fair-minded, even-handed | UNBIASED |
| C. | Current-regulating gizmo | RHEOSTAT |
| D. | Sudden, overwhelming rush | AVALANCHE |
| E. | Truth, or wide acceptance | LEGITIMACY |
| F. | Sully, stain, muddy | TARNISH |
| G. | Prepare for an uphill effort? | DOWNSHIFT |
| H. | Ben Franklin's "daughter of ignorance" | ADMIRATION |
| I. | Subjected to an X factor? | TENFOLD |
| J. | Gloaming, twilight | EVENTIDE |
| K. | Bound to advance over others? | LEAPFROG |
| L. | At fault, guilty, culpable (3 wds.) | INTHEWRONG |
| M. | Roald Amundsen or Fridtjof Nansen, e.g. | NORWEGIAN |
| N. | Heyday of Pac-Man and Cabbage Patch Kids | EIGHTIES |
| O. | Good at picking things up | ABSORBENT |
| P. | Cold wind in the south of France | MISTRAL |
| Q. | Practice of making designer babies | EUGENICS |
| R. | Replace an old coat with a new one | REFINISH |
| S. | Figure with 20 faces | ICOSAHEDRON |
| T. | Viewpoint of Ishmael in "Moby-Dick" (2 wds.) | CROWSNEST |
| U. | Chrysotile or crocidolite | ASBESTOS |