SUSAN ORLEAN, THE ORCHID THIEF — Orchids have diverse and unflowerlike looks.... There are species that look like butterflies, bats, ladies' handbags,... swarms of bees,... clamshells, roots, camel hooves, squirrels, nuns dressed in their wimples, and drunken old men.
| A. | It holds a little less than a jigger (2 wds.) | SHOTGLASS |
| B. | 15th-century Florentine who painted "The Battle of San Romano" | UCCELLO |
| C. | Animals raised in sericulture | SILKWORMS |
| D. | Medieval shooter of stones, balls and arrows | ARBALEST |
| E. | Coup leader in the 1952 deposing of King Farouk | NASSER |
| F. | Crude carriers | OILERS |
| G. | Outstanding, in surfer slang | RAD |
| H. | Vehicle with curtains | LITTER |
| I. | Film in which Martin Landau played Bela Lugosi (2 wds.) | EDWOOD |
| J. | Figure performed by square dancers | ALLEMANDE |
| K. | Centaur whose blood poisoned Hercules | NESSUS |
| L. | Experimental fusion reactor with a toroidal chamber | TOKAMAK |
| M. | Half a fortnight | HEBDOMAD |
| N. | Historical complex, now a museum, in New York Bay (2 wds.) | ELLISISLAND |
| O. | "Heads" side of a coin | OBVERSE |
| P. | Context for a "Dies Irae" | REQUIEM |
| Q. | Badge of stripes on a police officer's sleeve | CHEVRON |
| R. | Narrator of a picaresque tale of 1884 (2 wds.) | HUCKFINN |
| S. | River through Peoria | ILLINOIS |
| T. | A kind of publishing | DESKTOP |
| U. | Shark that drives its prey by beating its tail | THRESHER |
| V. | What the Mohs scale measures | HARDNESS |
| W. | Having obligations (2 wds.) | INDEBT |
| X. | Ionian setting for "The Comedy of Errors" | EPHESUS |
| Y. | Type of chrysanthemum once used remedially | FEVERFEW |