SUE GRAFTON, B IS FOR BURGLAR — My standard breakfast of bacon,... eggs, toast, jelly, and orange juice, with coffee... contains every element I crave: caffeine, salt, sugar, cholesterol, and fat. ... In California,... eating such a meal is regarded as a suicide attempt.
| A. | Openly shocked or bewildered (hyph.) | SLACKJAWED |
| B. | Principle that nature's laws hold throughout the cosmos | UNIFORMITY |
| C. | "Be virtuous and you will be ___" (Mark Twain) | ECCENTRIC |
| D. | Game in which books are made (2 wds.) | GOFISH |
| E. | An answer to an answer | REJOINDER |
| F. | Birds of a region | AVIFAUNA |
| G. | Extreme in one's enthusiasm | FANATIC |
| H. | Sci-fi tale of a teleportation-lab fiasco (2 wds.) | THEFLY |
| I. | Dish whose name is derived from the Latin word "lamella," meaning "thin plate" | OMELET |
| J. | "Sorry, but that's impossible" (3 wds.) | NOCANDO |
| K. | Cow-bison hybrid | BEEFALO |
| L. | Per Shakespeare, what not to admit "to the marriage of true minds" | IMPEDIMENTS |
| M. | Blue state | SADNESS |
| N. | Out of a guy's usual range | FALSETTO |
| O. | 8/14 of an Italian sonnet | OCTAVE |
| P. | Fail to follow suit when required and able | RENEGE |
| Q. | Allow air to pass through, as a fabric | BREATHE |
| R. | One who may take another's role | UNDERSTUDY |
| S. | Unkempt, disorderly; motley | RAGTAG |
| T. | Seeming to require an epoch to move | GLACIAL |
| U. | Prudhomme's successor at Commander's Palace, New Orleans | LAGASSE |
| V. | Taking self-denial a bit far | ASCETIC |
| W. | Believer in Ethiopia as the true Zion | RASTAFARIAN |