(AGNES) DE MILLE, DANCE TO THE PIPER — I learned three... things in college — to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
A. | Game played with bones | DOMINOES |
B. | Fifty-fifty (2 wds.) | EVENMONEY |
C. | Where blood cells are produced | MARROW |
D. | Zulu-based political party | INKATHA |
E. | Do laborious study, especially late at night | LUCUBRATE |
F. | Biblical man who was resurrected | LAZARUS |
G. | Particle discovered by J. J. Thomson in 1897 | ELECTRON |
H. | Tornado in miniature (2 wds.) | DUSTDEVIL |
I. | Astronomical treatise by Ptolemy | ALMAGEST |
J. | It "isn't what it used to be," said novelist Peter de Vries | NOSTALGIA |
K. | Jumble of pieces assembled with no design (2 wds.) | CRAZYQUILT |
L. | Writer, director and co-star of the 1978 rock mockumentary "The Rutles" (2 wds.) | ERICIDLE |
M. | Station for a fare collector | TOLLHOUSE |
N. | Magnesium iron silicate, which, when in the form of a gem, is called a peridot | OLIVINE |
O. | Tight-lipped, quiet | TACITURN |
P. | Harvest for ants that "farm" aphids | HONEYDEW |
Q. | Order of toothless animals, including sloths and armadillos | EDENTATA |
R. | Utility tool once used by scribes | PENKNIFE |
S. | Wanderlust (2 wds.) | ITCHYFEET |
T. | Entirely on one side, so to speak | PARTISAN |
U. | Mischievous, like an imp | ELFISH |
V. | The study of the nose | RHINOLOGY |