(DAVID) MAMET, THREE USES OF THE KNIFE — It is in our nature to dramatize. ...(W)e reinterpret the weather — an essentially impersonal phenomenon — into an expression of our current view of the universe. "Great. It's raining. Just when I'm blue. Isn't that just like life?"
| A. | Dreamy god of Greeks and Romans | MORPHEUS |
| B. | Come to, as a decision (2 wds.) | ARRIVEAT |
| C. | Practitioner of capitalism | MERCHANT |
| D. | Muppet with Rubber Duckie | ERNIE |
| E. | Seated figure in many New Yorker cartoons | THERAPIST |
| F. | Shakespeare's Cressida, for one | TROJAN |
| G. | Striking event in meteorology | HAILSTORM |
| H. | Earliest U.S. intercollegiate sport (1852) | ROWING |
| I. | Volcanic mount of Antarctica | EREBUS |
| J. | Privately (2 wds.) | ENTRENOUS |
| K. | Like harvested bananas, usually | UNRIPE |
| L. | Pious, perfect | SAINTLY |
| M. | Last name on Martin Sheen's passport | ESTEVEZ |
| N. | It may go up a mountain in the spring (2 wds.) | SNOWLINE |
| O. | Best with brainpower | OUTWIT |
| P. | Not for real, insincere, sham | FEIGNED |
| Q. | "Das Kapital" or "Common Sense," e.g. | TREATISE |
| R. | Coxa, in anatomy (2 wds.) | HIPJOINT |
| S. | One signing up for a tour | ENLISTEE |
| T. | Gulf war battleground | KUWAIT |
| U. | Producer of "The Jeffersons" and "Maude" (2 wds.) | NORMANLEAR |
| V. | One ___ Loop (Apple's street address) | INFINITE |
| W. | Bug repellent? (2 wds.) | FLUSHOT |
| X. | Direction for departing players | EXEUNT |