LEILA AHMED, A BORDER PASSAGE — In the poetry of... Sufism, the song of the reed is the metaphor for our human condition.... Cut from its bed and fashioned into a pipe, the reed forever laments the living earth that it once knew, crying out... its ache... and loss.
| A. | Case for a small memento | LOCKET |
| B. | Tenor in the tuba family | EUPHONIUM |
| C. | Get without fully understanding | INTUIT |
| D. | Spiritual energy, elan vital (2 wds.) | LIFEFORCE |
| E. | Wooded battleground of World War I | ARGONNE |
| F. | John Buchan's "man who has no invisible means of support" | ATHEIST |
| G. | Wi-Fi access point; place of conflict (2 wds.) | HOTSPOT |
| H. | One afflicted with logorrhea | MOTORMOUTH |
| I. | The Furies, to ancient Greeks | ERINYES |
| J. | Dog bred to hunt badgers | DACHSHUND |
| K. | Calcium-rich form of feldspar | ANORTHITE |
| L. | Washington-area headquarters of Lockheed Martin | BETHESDA |
| M. | Prompt, punctual (2 wds.) | ONTIME |
| N. | Page, as through a flipbook | RIFFLE |
| O. | Tending to spoil? | DOTING |
| P. | Warm-blooded creature | ENDOTHERM |
| Q. | Winners of Super Bowl XXXV in 2001 | RAVENS |
| R. | Program that explored the outer planets | PIONEER |
| S. | Lima and Bangkok, or Seville and Auckland, more or less | ANTIPODES |
| T. | Untrustworthy, devious | SHIFTY |
| U. | Accessory brand introduced in Zurich in 1983 | SWATCH |
| V. | Where Humphrey Bogart went to private school | ANDOVER |
| W. | Lighting technician, in Hollywood | GAFFER |
| X. | Spinoza's magnum opus | ETHICS |