BILLY COLLINS, NIGHT GOLF — I remember the night I discovered, lying in bed …, that a few imagined holes of golf worked much better than a thousand sheep, that the local links, not the cloudy pasture with its easy fence, was the greener path to sleep.
| A. | Onset of a stroke? | BACKSWING |
| B. | Disinclined to get off the couch, say | INDOLENT |
| C. | Dramatic somnambulist (2 wds.) | LADYMACBETH |
| D. | Time to visit the land of Nod (2 wds.) | LIGHTSOUT |
| E. | Guys who really know the ropes | YACHTSMEN |
| F. | Mean barb or low blow (2 wds.) | CHEAPSHOT |
| G. | Campus housing the Jack Nicklaus Museum (2 wds.) | OHIOSTATE |
| H. | Done with difficulty, as breathing | LABORED |
| I. | Police sergeant's superior | LIEUTENANT |
| J. | Tense for "was putting" or "used to putt" | IMPERFECT |
| K. | "Forget I said anything" (2 wds.) | NEVERMIND |
| L. | Reduced to ribbons | SHREDDED |
| M. | Magazine founded in 1933 with a hyphen in the middle of its name | NEWSWEEK |
| N. | Newspaper advertising supplement | INSERT |
| O. | Parlor game of word-building | GHOST |
| P. | Good for you, as food or exercise | HEALTHFUL |
| Q. | What a yard and a tripod both have (2 wds.) | THREEFEET |
| R. | Writer whose poems were set to music by Beethoven | GOETHE |
| S. | Like a hook vis-à-vis a slice | OPPOSITE |
| T. | Sports slang for a one-sided game | LAUGHER |
| U. | Drive reaching some short grass (2 wds.) | FAIRWAYHIT |