(AUDREY) SUTHERLAND, PADDLING NORTH — They say geese honk. That isn't the right word. It isn't an ooga like a Model A Ford, or a beep like a VW. It's a symphony of a dozen clear trumpets and haunting French horns all on different notes. It's Circe and the Lorelei... .
| A. | Musical piece in a playful vein | SCHERZO |
| B. | Sealskin craft conveying Inuit passengers | UMIAK |
| C. | Passing, brief, ephemeral | TRANSIENT |
| D. | How to ride a skeleton bobsled | HEADFIRST |
| E. | Ghostly, weird, otherworldly | ELDRITCH |
| F. | Antique radio adjusting device | RHEOSTAT |
| G. | Ornamental plant with delicate foliage (2 wds.) | LADYFERN |
| H. | Water bird with a snakelike neck | ANHINGA |
| I. | "____ in the Shade" (Thomas McGuane novel) (hyph.) | NINETYTWO |
| J. | Imagist poet Hilda | DOOLITTLE |
| K. | Olympian used to being underwater | POSEIDON |
| L. | Flower said to have sprung from the blood of Adonis | ANEMONE |
| M. | Foil to Bugs and Elmer | DAFFY |
| N. | Bottlenose ____ (sea creature) | DOLPHIN |
| O. | Adherent of the so-called "100-mile diet" | LOCAVORE |
| P. | "Parent" of some calves (2 wds.) | ICESHELF |
| Q. | Creature with a single spiral tusk | NARWHAL |
| R. | Liberal, lavish; benevolent | GENEROUS |
| S. | Best setting for viewing an aurora (2 wds.) | NIGHTSKY |
| T. | Player of the duck in "Peter and the Wolf" | OBOIST |
| U. | Competition for boaters | REGATTA |
| V. | Shakespeare play that opens on a ship at sea, with "The" | TEMPEST |
| W. | Listen up, old-style | HEARKEN |