A. | Jhumpa Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for this short story collection |
| B. | Core accuracy at the heart of a claim or narrative which also contains dubious or fictitious elements |
| C. | Harry Nilsson had a 1971 Hot 100 #1 hit and Mariah Carey a 1994 Hot 100 #3 hit with this song |
| D. | Deceive or defeat by greater ingenuity. |
| E. | A Golden Anniversary celebrates this many years of marriage |
| | G. | Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera |
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| H. | State capital that is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware |
| I. | Winner of the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness who still holds the world record for the fastest 1 1/4 miles on a dirt track |
| J. | The people of a nation, state, or society considered collectively as an organized group of citizens |
| | L. | Sang with frequent changes from ordinary voice to falsetto and back |
| M. | Jerusalem hill that is the site of the Room of the Last Supper |
| N. | Famous literary character whose favorite catch-all term for those he disdains is "phony" |
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