(J.D.) SALINGER, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE — What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're... done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone... . I wouldn't mind calling this Isak Dinesen up.
| A. | Like the words in un diccionario | SPANISH |
| B. | Descendant of a Volkszither | AUTOHARP |
| C. | One-sided game, in baseball slang | LAUGHER |
| D. | Graced by serendipity (2 wds.) | INLUCK |
| E. | Creator of an empty seat (hyph.) | NOSHOW |
| F. | Pollyanna's opposite | GRINCH |
| G. | Palpebrae | EYELIDS |
| H. | Piece of the past | RELIC |
| I. | Package deal, of a sort | TWOFER |
| J. | Overblown rhetoric (2 wds.) | HOTAIR |
| K. | Mr. Burns, to Homer Simpson | EMPLOYER |
| L. | Surname of this quote's fictional narrator | CAULFIELD |
| M. | Hostile state of mind | ATTITUDE |
| N. | Actor with the line "Houston, we have a problem" (2 wds.) | TOMHANKS |
| O. | Fill the old breadbasket (2 wds.) | CHOWDOWN |
| P. | Insight in three lines | HAIKU |
| Q. | Something that is | ENTITY |
| R. | Variety of sherbet | RAINBOW |
| S. | What a tapeworm may fertilize to reproduce | ITSELF |
| T. | Cause for a PG-13 rating | NUDITY |
| U. | "You ought to be ashamed" (hyph.) | TUTTUT |
| V. | Palindromic moniker from the Disney Channel | HANNAH |
| W. | Director of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" (2 wds.) | EDWOOD |
| X. | What Willie Mays was in 1951 | ROOKIE |
| Y. | "Tea for Two" composer | YOUMANS |
| Z. | Entrepreneur associated with bright ideas | EDISON |