A.A. MILNE, A TABLE NEAR THE BAND — Your family, like every other..., has a language of its own, consisting of unintelligible catch phrases, favorite but not generally known quotations, obscure allusions, and well-tried but not intrinsically humorous... jokes.
| A. | Of first importance (2 wds.) | ABOVEALL |
| B. | Nervously excited | ATWITTER |
| C. | Simpleton; freak; daydreamer | MOONCALF |
| D. | It's good for a balloonist, bad for an investor | INFLATION |
| E. | Actor buried in the garb of a vampire | LUGOSI |
| F. | Yearly medal for children's literature | NEWBERY |
| G. | Argument that refutes another argument, in logic | ELENCHUS |
| H. | Finds in flea markets and junk shops | ANTIQUES |
| I. | Great novelist who called Shakespeare "trivial and positively bad" | TOLSTOY |
| J. | What the Beach Boys claimed to get in 1964 | AROUND |
| K. | Rider of a penny-farthing or tandem | BICYCLIST |
| L. | Facial trait described lightly? (2 wds.) | LANTERNJAW |
| M. | Hungry for what another has | ENVIOUS |
| N. | Discouraging adherence to culinary ware | NONSTICK |
| O. | Study of winemaking (var.) | ENOLOGY |
| P. | Telling the future by interpreting omens | AUGURY |
| Q. | Picaresque | ROGUISH |
| R. | Lead down a dangerous path | TEMPT |
| S. | Athletes playing for UConn | HUSKIES |
| T. | Floor above the ground floor | ENTRESOL |
| U. | Greeting from Pooh? (2 wds.) | BEARHUG |
| V. | Emperor beginning in 1989 | AKIHITO |
| W. | Basic, sans bells and whistles (hyph.) | NOFRILLS |
| X. | Evidence of a nearby man-eater (2 wds.) | DORSALFIN |