LEONARD SHLAIN, ART AND PHYSICS — Both art and physics are... forms of language. ... While physicists demonstrate that A equals B or that X is the same as Y, artists... choose signs, symbols, and allegories to equate a painterly image with a feature of experience.
| A. | Release, discharge (2 wds.) | LETOFF |
| B. | One sent to state another's case | EMISSARY |
| C. | Ungainly and dimwitted | OAFISH |
| D. | Contents of a bouquetier | NOSEGAY |
| E. | Brawny brother of Prometheus | ATLAS |
| F. | Street exiting London's Piccadilly Circus | REGENT |
| G. | Popular piece on happiness by Max Ehrmann | DESIDERATA |
| H. | Conveyance sporting bells, sometimes | SLEIGH |
| I. | Position of one undergoing interrogation (2 wds.) | HOTSEAT |
| J. | Symbiotic growth of fungi and algae | LICHEN |
| K. | Eatery depicted in an Edward Hopper painting | AUTOMAT |
| L. | Kazuo ___, author of "The Remains of the Day" | ISHIGURO |
| M. | State whose official cookie is the bizcochito (2 wds.) | NEWMEXICO |
| N. | Immeasurable depth | ABYSS |
| O. | Salty or spicy | RISQUE |
| P. | Drive absolutely bananas | TORMENT |
| Q. | Sweetener used in diet colas | ASPARTAME |
| R. | Club like Studio 54 or Whisky A Go-Go | NIGHTSPOT |
| S. | Brainy misfit | DWEEB |
| T. | Love potion; magic charm | PHILTER |
| U. | Hairy, winged bloodsucker | HORSEFLY |
| V. | Ukrainian site of an influential meeting in 1945 | YALTA |
| W. | Chopin's "Funeral March" or Beethoven's "Pathétique," e.g. | SONATA |
| X. | Wild goat with backward-pointing horns | IBEX |
| Y. | Pickled flower buds used in tapenade | CAPERS |
| Z. | Purported "star" of a 1967 film by Robert Patterson | SASQUATCH |