LITERARY TERMS - The New York Times

1 LITERARY TERMS by Frank Longo | 2014, The New York Times ACROSS 1 Free ___ ( poetry that does not follow a fixed 38-Across) 6 Butter substitutes 11 Sesame Street network 14 Place for yet-to-be-answered mail: Hyph. 15 Nonflowering plants with leaves called fronds 16 The Crying Game star Stephen 17 Narrator s position in relation to a story: 3 wds. 19 Alternative to .com or .edu 20 Locale in which the action of a novel takes place 21 It may precede boy! or girl! 22 The S of : Abbr. 25 ___ de Janeiro 26 Month-___-glance calendar: Hyph. 27 Sings like Frank Sinatra 29 LITERARY work in the form of a conversation 34 Deer that are mates for harts 35 Metal door fasteners 36 ___ silver platter: 2 wds.

2 37 Gas Food Lodging actress ___ Skye 38 Arrangement of words in regularly patterned lines, as in poetry 39 Difficult burden 40 ___-mo replay 12345678910111213141516171819202122 23 242526272829 30 3132 3334353637383940414243444546474849 5051 52 5354555657 58 59606162636465 41 Buying binge 42 Self-confident manner 43 Figure of speech such as Art is a jealous mistress 45 Fair maiden 46 Dry ___ bone (example of a figure of speech called a simile): 2 wds. 47 Actor McKellen 48 six-pointers 49 Hiking trail 51 Arrangements of lines forming poem divisions 55 Necklace of flowers 56 Pattern of similar-sounding ending words in poetic lines: 2 wds. 60 ___ y plata (Montana s motto, meaning gold and silver ) 61 Prank 62 Has in hand 63 2,000 pounds 64 ___ you forgetting something?

3 65 Long poetic compositions usually centered upon 35-Downs DOWN 1 One given red-carpet treatment 2 2001 Grammy-winning rock producer Brian 3 Baseball stat 4 Male offspring 5 Medical students working at a hospital, often 6 ___ a good start: 2 wds. 7 ___ Strauss jeans 8 ___ Brockovich (Julia Roberts film) 9 Universal donor s blood type, for short: Hyph. 10 180 from NNE 11 Leading character of a LITERARY work 12 Ernie s pal on Sesame Street 13 Novel in which the generations of a family are chronicled in a long narrative 18 The Adventures of Milo and ___ (1989 cat-and-dog film) 21 From ___ Z (thoroughly): 2 wds. 22 Division into opposing parties 23 Baltimore ballplayer 24 Secondary meaning of a word in addition to its explicit meaning 26 Gore, Roker and Pacino 28 Lyric poem expressing exalted emotion 29 Librarian s stamping device 30 That makes sense now : 2 wds.

4 31 Month after Mar. 32 Still in the package 33 Artists stands 35 What an 11-Down usually is 38 Speedometer abbr. 39 ___-pah-pah (tuba s sound) 41 Hot tub with a whirlpool 42 Gusto 44 Barbecue residue 45 H agen-___ (ice cream brand) 47 Nonreactive, as neon or krypton 49 Main story of a LITERARY work 50 Prefix meaning flight 51 ___-Pei (dog with wrinkly skin) 52 Category 53 Preach it, pastor! 54 Hit the mall 56 Producer of TVs and VCRs 57 Yale student 58 Caesar s 1,600 59 Suffix frowned upon by feminists