(SYLVIA TOWNSEND) WARNER, MR. FORTUNE'S MAGGOT - Most Englishmen who visit the South Sea Islands are... shocked at the vegetation. Such fecundity, such a largesse and explosion of life... all this profusion unbridled and untoiled for and running to waste disturbs them.
| A. | Beluga, by another name (2 wds.) | WHITEWHALE |
| B. | Growth ring on a tree trunk or fish scale | ANNULUS |
| C. | Advice for a dividend receiver | REINVEST |
| D. | Weapon for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle | NUNCHAKU |
| E. | Like a document written in Braille | EMBOSSED |
| F. | Leave posthaste (2 wds.) | RUSHOFF |
| G. | Extinct creature whose name means "nipple tooth" | MASTODON |
| H. | Accuracy; integrity | RIGHTNESS |
| I. | Cause for a pit stop (2 wds.) | FLATTIRE |
| J. | Challenge that's part of a West Point course | OBSTACLE |
| K. | Fixed, or transfixed | RIVETED |
| L. | Like hurricanes and many cocktails | TROPICAL |
| M. | Moving like a hula dancer | UNDULANT |
| N. | Tripled and then tripled again | NINEFOLD |
| O. | Nosebleed, in medical parlance | EPISTAXIS |
| P. | Chuck Berry hit with the line "Hail, hail rock and roll" (2 wds.) | SCHOOLDAYS |
| Q. | Natural gas, for the most part | METHANE |
| R. | Stage occupied by an imago | ADULTHOOD |
| S. | Soldier's discharge | GUNSHOT |
| T. | Displaying a bit of viridity | GREENISH |
| U. | Made rigid and inflexible | OSSIFIED |
| V. | Intelligence, word, news | TIDINGS |