(L.L. LARISON) CUDMORE, THE CENTER OF LIFE — Amoebas may not have backbones, brains,... plastic,... [or] Valium...; but their architecture is two billion years ahead of its time. The amoeba had the... ideas of R. Buckminster Fuller before there was anyone... capable of having an idea.
| A. | Many a mom or dad, say, after school lets out | CHAUFFEUR |
| B. | Mongolia's main metropolis (2 wds.) | ULANBATOR |
| C. | No longer in existence | DEFUNCT |
| D. | Old World herb whose root was once believed to have magical properties | MANDRAKE |
| E. | Marc Antony's wife, who raised Cleopatra's children | OCTAVIA |
| F. | 1984 Olympic soccer venue (2 wds.) | ROSEBOWL |
| G. | Type of chicory put in salads | ESCAROLE |
| H. | Regulating device with a bimetallic coil | THERMOSTAT |
| I. | Toy train builder, stamp collector or rockhound | HOBBYIST |
| J. | Inventor who pioneered mass production of rifles (2 wds.) | ELIWHITNEY |
| K. | Affliction imputed on playgrounds | COOTIES |
| L. | Audit without notification | EAVESDROP |
| M. | Major exporter of diamonds and uranium | NAMIBIA |
| N. | "Hot corner" on a diamond (2 wds.) | THIRDBASE |
| O. | Group of actors, musicians or furniture | ENSEMBLE |
| P. | Beverage served in a taverna | RETSINA |
| Q. | "Saving Private Ryan" setting (2 wds.) | OMAHABEACH |
| R. | Member of Our Gang named for a cereal | FARINA |
| S. | 1651 work in which Thomas Hobbes describes life as "Nasty, brutish and short" | LEVIATHAN |
| T. | Partake of liquid refreshment | IMBIBE |
| U. | The Santa Maria, for Columbus | FLAGSHIP |
| V. | Organism with complex cells | EUKARYOTE |