MELISSA MILGROM, STILL LIFE — The lobby... was a veritable Noah's ark on luggage carts. A taxidermist from Nebraska carted a prairie chicken and a mink... . [C]ougars, geckos,... marmots,... and... turtles were all being wheeled this way and that... in the... convention hotel... .
| A. | Plant whose root is used in magic rituals | MANDRAKE |
| B. | Display stand for curios, whatnot | ETAGERE |
| C. | Shari Lewis's ovine sock puppet (2 wds.) | LAMBCHOP |
| D. | Film with talking smilodons and sloths (2 wds.) | ICEAGE |
| E. | Scalpel wielder, slangily | SAWBONES |
| F. | Venue for Barnum's Fiji Mermaid, e.g. | SIDESHOW |
| G. | Fur from young lambs named for a Russian city | ASTRAKHAN |
| H. | Fish often spanning 20 feet or more (2 wds.) | MANTARAY |
| I. | Given tangible form; embodied | INCARNATE |
| J. | Like a deer's head, colorwise (2 wds.) | LIGHTBROWN |
| K. | Process whereby scores are given | GRADING |
| L. | Phoenix event occurring every 500 years or so | REBIRTH |
| M. | Davy Crockett's rifle (2 wds.) | OLDBETSY |
| N. | Like the range of many green parakeets and Gila monsters | MEXICAN |
| O. | Reconnected, as in surgery | SUTURED |
| P. | Size up the situation (2 wds.) | TAKESTOCK |
| Q. | Wolf down; get a whiff | INHALE |
| R. | One soon to be supplanted (2 wds.) | LAMEDUCK |
| S. | Biblical sea monster | LEVIATHAN |
| T. | Not seen in quite a while (hyph.) | LONGLOST |
| U. | Via an artificial environment outside a living organism (2 wds.) | INVITRO |
| V. | Distinctive features of the primitive reptilian archaeopteryx | FEATHERS |
| W. | Admit to being wrong (2 wds.) | EATCROW |