PHYLLIS ROSE: (THE YEAR OF) READING PROUST — I am a narrative junkie. I consume stories in all forms. TV shows, novels, dreams, newspaper accounts of kidnappings, murders, heroism, panic, disaster: they all feed the habit. In a way they're all the same.... I need [my] daily fix.
| A. | Title heroine of a Samuel Richardson tale, 1740 | PAMELA |
| B. | Miss ___, Dickens woman in perpetual wedding dress | HAVISHAM |
| C. | Sensationally morbid and offensive | YELLOW |
| D. | Upon first meeting Robin Hood he "tumbl'd him into the brook" (2 wds.) | LITTLEJOHN |
| E. | Florentine monk in a Browning poem | LIPPI |
| F. | Author of "Seven Gothic Tales" (2 wds.) | ISAKDINESEN |
| G. | Under lock and key | SAFE |
| H. | Work as a critic | REVIEW |
| I. | Egyptian site yielding many ancient literary papyri | OXYRHYNCHUS |
| J. | Geographical heptad | SEAS |
| K. | Dryad who was killed by a snake while fleeing the advances of Aristaeus | EURYDICE |
| L. | Prince of Abyssinia in a Samuel Johnson romance | RASSELAS |
| M. | Area associated with Cockneys (2 wds.) | EASTEND |
| N. | Be a good listener | ATTEND |
| O. | Be a poor listener (2 wds.) | DRIFTOFF |
| P. | Town known as the Capital of the Highlands | INVERNESS |
| Q. | Hero in much of Hemingway's short fiction (2 wds.) | NICKADAMS |
| R. | One of a pair of storytelling brothers | GRIMM |
| S. | In Shakespeare, the disguised Balthazar's true identity | PORTIA |
| T. | Police car feature | RADIO |
| U. | John Irving title character (2 wds.) | OWENMEANY |
| V. | Navel | UMBILICUS |
| W. | French leftist who declined a Nobel Prize in 1964 | SARTRE |
| X. | Costumed crime-fighter created by Lee Falk (2 wds.) | THEPHANTOM |