KRISTIN HANNAH, THE FOUR WINDS--[M]en... seemed to think it meant nothing to cook and clean and bear children and tend gardens. But we women of the Great Plains worked from sunup to sundown,... toiled on wheat farms until we were as dry and baked as the land... .
| A. | What you have upon learning the ropes (hyph.) | KNOWHOW |
| B. | Extra, like a backup copy | REDUNDANT |
| C. | Edifice unlikely to burn to the ground | IGLOO |
| D. | Protection from severe weather | SHUTTER |
| E. | Stand-in for beef in some burgers | TEMPEH |
| F. | Twinkling | INSTANT |
| G. | Cry protesting injustice (2 wds.) | NOFAIR |
| H. | Denomination associated with Ben Franklin | HUNDRED |
| I. | Eliciting an "Ooh!" | AWESOME |
| J. | Kid's mother (2 wds.) | NANNYGOAT |
| K. | Item for a server to clear (2 wds.) | NETCORD |
| L. | ____ Sisters, singers with the 1941 hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" | ANDREWS |
| M. | Target of a sap-sucking woolly adelgid | HEMLOCK |
| N. | Peaks in the Cathedral Group | TETONS |
| O. | Virginia city that's also the name of an inn | HAMPTON |
| P. | First place | EDEN |
| Q. | Something a blurter lacks | FILTER |
| R. | Indicator of meritorious service (2 wds.) | OAKLEAF |
| S. | Adjective at a pump | UNLEADED |
| T. | Place where shellfish are shucked (2 wds.) | RAWBAR |
| U. | Setting for the long opening scene in "The Godfather" | WEDDING |
| V. | Wanted (2 wds.) | INDEMAND |
| W. | Respectful greeting in India | NAMASTE |
| X. | 20th-century American ecological calamity (2 wds.) | DUSTBOWL |
| Y. | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 | STEINBECK |