M(ALCOLM) GLADWELL, DAVID AND GOLIATH — The battle is won miraculously by an underdog…. This is the way we have told one another the story over the … centuries since…. And the problem with that version of the events is that almost everything about it is wrong.
The battle is won miraculously by an underdog [who, by all expectations, should not have won at all]. This is the way we have told one another the story over the [many] centuries since. [It is how the phrase ‘David and Goliath' has come to be embedded in our language — as a metaphor for improbable victory.] And the problem with that version of the events is that almost everything about it is wrong.
| A. | ____ on Ice (historic 1980 Olympics upset) | MIRACLE |
| B. | Lyricist of "It Ain't Necessarily So" | GERSHWIN |
| C. | Feel disgust for | LOATHE |
| D. | In opposition to; from side to side | ATHWART |
| E. | Go public; come out | DEBUT |
| F. | Rush swiftly through the air, like a hurled object | WHOOSH |
| G. | Sap of power; dishearten | ENERVATE |
| H. | 1651 treatise subtitled "Or the Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil" | LEVIATHAN |
| I. | Something planned or learned | LESSON |
| J. | Measurement for a swimming pool | DEPTH |
| K. | Where Henry V triumphed against long odds | AGINCOURT |
| L. | Oomph, vim, zing | VERVE |
| M. | Lilliputian (hyph.) | ITTYBITTY |
| N. | "Small and meek" member of a traveling film foursome | DOROTHY |
| O. | Swear (to) | ATTEST |
| P. | Apprise, inform | NOTIFY |
| Q. | Like Mighty Mouse and Tom Thumb | DIMINUTIVE |
| R. | Skittish after a previously bad experience (hyph.) | GUNSHY |
| S. | Out and about, like sailors enjoying home leave, say (3 wds.) | ONTHETOWN |
| T. | Home to a certain legendary aquatic beast (2 wds.) | LOCHNESS |
| U. | Descendants of the biblical patriarch Jacob | ISRAELITES |
| V. | Cool, dope, fantabulous | AWESOME |
| W. | Internal compass; direction of Polaris (2 wds.) | TRUENORTH |
| X. | Thomas ____, philosopher who wrote Answer H. | HOBBES |