(EDNA) FERBER, A PECULIAR TREASURE — Only amateurs... write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. [It] may be... absorbing,... racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
| A. | Wartime-only rank for a general (hyph.) | FIVESTAR |
| B. | Tribute delivered oratorically | ENCOMIUM |
| C. | Venue for a team like New Zealand's All Blacks (2 wds.) | RUGBYFIELD |
| D. | Arts and Crafts house style | BUNGALOW |
| E. | Transplant in a foreign land | EMIGRANT |
| F. | Something illegal to run (2 wds.) | REDLIGHT |
| G. | Soother for an upset stomach | ANTACID |
| H. | "War without bloodshed," per Mao | POLITICS |
| I. | Place in a vault | ENTOMB |
| J. | Vitamin A precursor | CAROTENE |
| K. | "x" in an equation; yet to be discovered | UNKNOWN |
| L. | Epic 1930s flight of some 6,000 miles (2 wds.) | LONGMARCH |
| M. | Suppress, restrain | INHIBIT |
| N. | Brandy from the Gascony region of France | ARMAGNAC |
| O. | Pigeon with white neck patches | RINGDOVE |
| P. | Object having magical powers | TALISMAN |
| Q. | 1960 novel in which Harry Angstrom first appears (2 wds.) | RABBITRUN |
| R. | Case of cephalic swelling? | EGOTISM |
| S. | "Time is the only critic without ___" (Steinbeck) | AMBITION |
| T. | Like Porky Pig or Swift's Yahoos | SWINISH |
| U. | One-piece long underwear with a button-up flap in the rear (2 wds.) | UNIONSUIT |
| V. | Refusal to bend, intransigence | RIGIDITY |
| W. | Puzzling, hard to fathom | ENIGMATIC |