(MARY) BEARD, LAUGHTER IN ANCIENT ROME — Unlike the barking of dogs, the grunting of pigs, or the croaking of frogs — which different languages render in... different ways... — laughter in almost all... languages... is rendered as... some variant on ha ha, hee hee, or tee hee.
Unlike the barking of dogs, the grunting of pigs, or the croaking of frogs — which different languages render in bewilderingly different ways ("oink oink," says the Anglo-American pig, "röf röf röf" or "uí uí" the Hungarian, "soch soch" the Welsh) — laughter in almost all world languages, and in entirely different linguistic families, is rendered as (or includes within its repertoire) some variant on ha ha, hee hee, or tee hee.
| A. | High Sierra browser | BIGHORN |
| B. | Wax rhapsodic, gush | EFFUSE |
| C. | Counterpart to "or" in heraldry | ARGENT |
| D. | Enjoy unfettered freedom (2 wds.) | RUNWILD |
| E. | Casual affair, fling | DALLIANCE |
| F. | Parrot with a brush-tipped tongue | LORIKEET |
| G. | Soft blanket with a geometric pattern | AFGHAN |
| H. | Site of the olecranon process | ULNA |
| I. | An empty one won't do much | GESTURE |
| J. | Baseball, in slang | HORSEHIDE |
| K. | Targets of star searches | TALENTS |
| L. | Spur, prod, goad (2 wds.) | EGGON |
| M. | Barack Obama's Secret Service code name | RENEGADE |
| N. | Something gotten up in umbrage | IRISH |
| O. | Counteract, void, nullify | NEGATE |
| P. | Colorful aquarium denizen | ANGELFISH |
| Q. | Empty seat's "occupant" (hyph.) | NOSHOW |
| R. | Fruit cooked with sugar and spice | COMPOTE |
| S. | Writer who first called New York "Gotham" | IRVING |
| T. | Debunked deep-space medium | ETHER |
| U. | Craft on display in the Sistine Chapel (2 wds.) | NOAHSARK |
| V. | Three sheets to the wind, blotto | TRASHED |
| W. | Disreputable in an attractive way | RAFFISH |
| X. | Sending out sour notes (hyph.) | OFFKEY |
| Y. | Star quality? | MAGNITUDE |
| Z. | Latin for "thus"; old Greek for "work" | ERGO |