(WILLIAM) LEAST HEAT-MOON, RIVER HORSE — I have an old highway atlas... the pages so soft from a thousand thumbings they whisper as I turn them. Put your finger... anyplace in this United States atlas, and I've either been there or within twenty-five miles of it.
| A. | Record-breaking voyager whose best seller was "We" | LINDBERGH |
| B. | Stream going out of a lake or reservoir | EFFLUENT |
| C. | Craft whose salient feature is its lightness | AIRSHIP |
| D. | Vagrant or traveling laborer Down Under | SWAGMAN |
| E. | Region whose Mandarin name is Xizang | TIBET |
| F. | Adventurer and author of "The Ra Expeditions" | HEYERDAHL |
| G. | "Eric the Red," or "Sinbad the Sailor" | EPITHET |
| H. | Place to find a traveler's trunk | ATTIC |
| I. | Peril for sailors in the South China Sea | TYPHOON |
| J. | Explorer of the Himalayas who penned "Snow Leopard" | MATTHIESSEN |
| K. | Largest tributary of the St. Lawrence | OTTAWA |
| L. | Remote, not heavily traveled (hyph.) | OUTOFTHEWAY |
| M. | Very dark, purplish blue | NAVY |
| N. | Item often blackened in Cajun cuisine | REDFISH |
| O. | Journeying, as on a circuit | ITINERANT |
| P. | Its blast killed Pliny the Elder | VESUVIUS |
| Q. | Transport for a driver in a howdah | ELEPHANT |
| R. | Twain's 1872 account of his vagabonding (2 wds.) | ROUGHINGIT |
| S. | Mercenary hired by England in the American Revolution | HESSIAN |
| T. | 1957 "beat" novel of a hitchhiking trip (3 wds.) | ONTHEROAD |
| U. | Ruler with a mortuary temple at Thebes | RAMSES |
| V. | Author of "A Tale of a Tub" | SWIFT |
| W. | Last stop for the virtuous, in Greek myth | ELYSIUM |