(ISABEL) ALLENDE, MY INVENTED COUNTRY — My granddaughter... wrote a composition for school in which she said... she liked her "grandmother's imagination." I asked... what she was referring to, and without hesitation she replied, "You remember things that never happened."
| A. | 1925 novel of a doctor from Zenith | ARROWSMITH |
| B. | Like a member of Chile's Popular Unity party | LEFTIST |
| C. | According to Hoyle, kosher | LEGIT |
| D. | Missing party of 1937 | EARHART |
| E. | Like the lion Hercules killed | NEMEAN |
| F. | In need of an economic boost | DEPRESSED |
| G. | Highbrow, intellectual | EGGHEAD |
| H. | Area for slam dancing or crowd surfing (2 wds.) | MOSHPIT |
| I. | Reference that avoids name-dropping (3 wds.) | YOUKNOWWHO |
| J. | 1948 team on which Satchel Paige was a 42-year-old "rookie" | INDIANS |
| K. | Author of the Roderick Alleyn detective novels (2 wds.) | NGAIOMARSH |
| L. | 1958 hit song also known as "Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu" | VOLARE |
| M. | Octave | EIGHTH |
| N. | With "his," a very important person | NIBS |
| O. | Sci-fi film based on John W. Campbell Jr.'s "Who Goes There?" (2 wds.) | THETHING |
| P. | Transient state of someone with bipolar disorder | EUPHORIA |
| Q. | Plethora's opposite | DEARTH |
| R. | Water creature with prominent barbels and no scales | CATFISH |
| S. | "The guitar is a small ___" (Andres Segovia) | ORCHESTRA |
| T. | Helpless, in a pickle, beyond rescue (3 wds.) | UPTHECREEK |
| U. | Crescent possibly visible at sunset (2 wds.) | NEWMOON |
| V. | Phenomenon measured by the Fujita scale | TORNADO |
| W. | Italy's Amarone or Argentina's Malbec, e.g. (2 wds.) | REDWINE |
| X. | Entry in a Leo Rosten lexicon | YIDDISHISM |