(JENNIFER) OUELLETTE, (THE) CALCULUS DIARIES — Archimedes... was the quintessential math nerd. ... Plutarch tells how... [his] servants had to forcibly bathe their preoccupied master, who would sketch geometrical figures in... the oils that anointed his naked body after bath time.
| A. | Not particularly tailored (hyph.) | OFFTHERACK |
| B. | Facial feature of Bert the Muppet | UNIBROW |
| C. | Have a helping of crow (2 wds.) | EATDIRT |
| D. | Book with columns of writing | LEDGER |
| E. | Rotten, horrid, odious, vile | LOATHSOME |
| F. | "___ the monumental. Shun the Epic" (Hemingway) | ESCHEW |
| G. | Old ballroom dance in duple meter (hyph.) | TWOSTEP |
| H. | Prince Myshkin, to Dostoyevsky (2 wds.) | THEIDIOT |
| I. | All; from A to Z (2 wds.) | EVERYBIT |
| J. | Work apt to be in the public domain | CLASSIC |
| K. | Hampshire College site | AMHERST |
| L. | Best-selling book series concerned with the end of the world (2 wds.) | LEFTBEHIND |
| M. | Prime minister after Brown | CAMERON |
| N. | Particle first observed in 1968 (2 wds.) | UPQUARK |
| O. | Gave in to despair (2 wds.) | LOSTHEART |
| P. | Single, informally | UNHITCHED |
| Q. | Impale on a rod for sorting, as a piece of paper | SPINDLE |
| R. | "Illegitimi non carborundum," e.g. (2 wds.) | DOGLATIN |
| S. | Where Penelope awaited her husband's return | ITHACA |
| T. | Joy and sorrow, or heaven and hell | ANTITHESES |
| U. | Postgame treatment from a trainer | RUBDOWN |
| V. | Sailor under Captain Ahab | ISHMAEL |
| W. | Coarse; simple and natural | EARTHY |
| X. | The farthest thing from a flop (2 wds.) | SMASHHIT |