SY MONTGOMERY, THE GOOD GOOD PIG — Everything about a pig makes people want to laugh... with joy: the way their lardy bulk can mince along gracefully on tiptoe hooves, the way their tails curl, their... flexible nose disks, their great, greedy delight in eating.
| A. | Razorback, Duroc, Poland China, etc. | SWINE |
| B. | Foul, disgusting, unappealing | YUCKY |
| C. | Setting for the sitcom "Happy Days" | MILWAUKEE |
| D. | Round with flattened ends, like a pumpkin | OBLATE |
| E. | Much-anthologized Isaac Asimov science-fiction short story | NIGHTFALL |
| F. | Good at conserving resources | THRIFTY |
| G. | Aloha, ciao or shalom | GREETING |
| H. | Goal; unbiased | OBJECTIVE |
| I. | Strong, puissant, powerful | MIGHTY |
| J. | Protection for a skateboarder (2 wds.) | ELBOWPAD |
| K. | Serving of bacon | RASHER |
| L. | Home with a dome | YURT |
| M. | The Green Wave, in college sports | TULANE |
| N. | Hog featured in "Easy Rider" | HARLEY |
| O. | Writer Huxley noted for her memoirs of colonial Kenya | ELSPETH |
| P. | Typically blue alpine flower | GENTIAN |
| Q. | Demand too much of | OVERTAX |
| R. | One of a select few in power | OLIGARCH |
| S. | Exquisite; delectable | DAINTY |
| T. | Strikingly lifelike | GRAPHIC |
| U. | More than make up for; surpass in importance | OUTWEIGH |
| V. | Expression coming out of a pen | OINK |
| W. | One confined but not charged | DETAINEE |
| X. | Project for a novice at crochet | POTHOLDER |
| Y. | Key that isn't for opening locks | ISLET |
| Z. | Wet-weather wear | GALOSHES |