MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, OF VANITY — If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself. We are all steeped in it, one as much as another... .
| A. | Streaks made by falling rocks | METEORS |
| B. | Disinclined to do work | INDOLENT |
| C. | In a light and fluffy form | CHIFFON |
| D. | Swill | HOGWASH |
| E. | "____ recollected in tranquility" (Wordsworth words on poetry) | EMOTION |
| F. | What almost half of U.S. state mottoes are in | LATIN |
| G. | Hedy Lamarr role opposite Victor Mature | DELILAH |
| H. | Illustrious; noteworthy | EMINENT |
| I. | Leave confounded | MYSTIFY |
| J. | Item akin to a tuffet | OTTOMAN |
| K. | World capital designed by British architects (2 wds.) | NEWDELHI |
| L. | Projects by seekers of degrees | THESES |
| M. | Insult | AFFRONT |
| N. | Altered by permeation | INFUSED |
| O. | Musical set at Rydell High | GREASE |
| P. | Bad news on the bottom line (2 wds.) | NETLOSS |
| Q. | Discriminatory sort, snob | ELITIST |
| R. | Release an oocyte | OVULATE |
| S. | Slurping or burping at the table, e.g. (2 wds.) | FAUXPAS |
| T. | Lack of ideas or substance | VACUITY |
| U. | Consummate, thoroughgoing, complete | ARRANT |
| V. | Things feared by aichmophobes | NEEDLES |
| W. | Crasher's opposite | INVITEE |
| X. | Like a rapier but not a scimitar (hyph.) | TWOEDGED |
| Y. | Language in which "goodbye" is "zay gezunt" | YIDDISH |