(MARK) FORSYTH, ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE — A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses... thoughts... exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.
| A. | Living space with zero privacy | FISHBOWL |
| B. | Temporary effect of exercising (2 wds.) | OXYGENDEBT |
| C. | Parrot | REPEAT |
| D. | Suave; effortless | SMOOTH |
| E. | Rowdy lout of a bloke | YOBBO |
| F. | Colbert coinage of 2005 | TRUTHINESS |
| G. | Ankle-covering wear | HIGHTOPS |
| H. | Strike in the proofreading stage (2 wds.) | EDITOUT |
| I. | "In the ___ month of June" (Coleridge) | LEAFY |
| J. | Bit of a whirl in the water | EDDY |
| K. | Damaged by voracious insects (hyph.) | MOTHEATEN |
| L. | Alternative to a colon or ellipsis (2 wds.) | EMDASH |
| M. | Teetotaler, abstainer from alcohol | NEPHALIST |
| N. | Ancient Greek actor whose name endures | THESPIS |
| O. | Finish at a low level? | SHOESHINE |
| P. | "What a debacle!" (2 wds.) | OYVEY |
| Q. | Dactyls and such | FEET |
| R. | One who's self-motivated? | EGOTIST |
| S. | Second-biggest Pakistani city after Karachi | LAHORE |
| T. | What a good deed proves | OWNERSHIP |
| U. | Went off a la Galahad | QUESTED |
| V. | Not meriting consideration | UNWORTHY |
| W. | What Heathcliff and Isabella do in "Wuthering Heights" | ELOPE |
| X. | Storied animal rescue activist? | NOAH |
| Y. | Rules of moral conduct | CODE |
| Z. | Passing assessment? (2 wds.) | ESTATETAX |