(ADAM JACOB) DE BOINOD, THE MEANING OF TINGO — My interest in the quirkiness of foreign words was triggered when one day working... for the BBC quiz programme "QI," I picked up a weighty Albanian dictionary to discover that they have... twenty-seven words for eyebrows.
| A. | Something felt on a man's head | DERBY |
| B. | Labor union for theater actors, informally | EQUITY |
| C. | Unglazed white ceramic ware | BISQUE |
| D. | The back of the hand | OPISTHENAR |
| E. | Affront to one's self-respect | INDIGNITY |
| F. | Ikea employee dress code violation | NECKTIE |
| G. | Left winger of the Washington Capitals | OVECHKIN |
| H. | Mississippi crosser of 1541 (2 wds.) | DESOTO |
| I. | Fare that arrives in a box (2 wds.) | TVSHOW |
| J. | Relentlessly greedy, grasping person | HARPY |
| K. | Like margarine, to a butter lover | ERSATZ |
| L. | In a thick tangle, as hair | MATTED |
| M. | Make deadlier, as an arrowhead | ENVENOM |
| N. | Stratum that's well-connected? | AQUIFER |
| O. | Provision for a rainy day (2 wds.) | NESTEGG |
| P. | River that was Kipling's "road to Mandalay" | IRRAWADDY |
| Q. | Animals fancied by Wodehouse's Gussie Fink-Nottle | NEWTS |
| R. | Talk signifying nothing | GIBBERISH |
| S. | Clockwork model of the solar system | ORRERY |
| T. | What drivers deliberately attempt to hit | FAIRWAYS |
| U. | Performance so good it challenges other artists | THROWDOWN |
| V. | Like a firehouse on fire, say | IRONIC |
| W. | Second game of a baseball doubleheader | NIGHTCAP |
| X. | Lampyris noctiluca | GLOWWORM |
| Y. | Painter of "Black Cross, New Mexico" | OKEEFFE |