MICHAEL NOVAK, THE JOY OF SPORTS — Basketball is jazz: improvisatory, free,... fast, exulting, screeching, torrid, explosive, exquisitely designed for letting first the trumpet, then the sax, then the drummer, then the trombonist soar away in virtuoso excellence.
| A. | Dwelling like Hawthorne's in Concord, Mass. | MANSE |
| B. | Arrival en masse | INFLUX |
| C. | ___ Sea, off the southern coast of the Philippines | CELEBES |
| D. | Court congratulations (hyph.) | HIGHFIVE |
| E. | Substance once used as a charm against intoxication | AMETHYST |
| F. | Supporter of snobbery | ELITIST |
| G. | Diamond-shaped background for a woman's heraldic arms | LOZENGE |
| H. | Web users' code of conduct | NETIQUETTE |
| I. | Cargo carried by hemoglobin | OXYGEN |
| J. | Energetic and full of life | VIBRANT |
| K. | "20th Century Piano Genius" album artist (2 wds.) | ARTTATUM |
| L. | Ear-splitting device used as a warning signal | KLAXON |
| M. | Bambi's bunny buddy | THUMPER |
| N. | Porcine-looking swimmer | HOGFISH |
| O. | Seat of Devon County, England | EXETER |
| P. | Texan noted for her 1976 Democratic convention keynote address | JORDAN |
| Q. | Member of a family building domed nests | OVENBIRD |
| R. | Element found in euxenite and xenotime | YTTRIUM |
| S. | Whippersnapper's opposite | OLDSTER |
| T. | Directly from the source | FIRSTHAND |
| U. | Teacher found guilty in a famous trial | SOCRATES |
| V. | Long-winded, verbose | PROLIX |
| W. | Small bone | OSSICLE |
| X. | Eponymous inventor of a scale | RICHTER |
| Y. | Item in a medical kit | TWEEZERS |
| Z. | "I danced with passion to ___ the music" (Gelsey Kirkland) | SPITE |