CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, AND YET--As I look back on my long... struggle to make myself over, and on my dismaying... glimpses of lost babyhood, I am more than ever sure that it's enough to be born once, and to take one's chances, and to grow old disgracefully.
A. | Percussion instrument heard at the end of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 | CYMBALS |
B. | Units of engine power, informally | HORSES |
C. | Balsa wood prop in a 1941 movie | ROSEBUD |
D. | Transcending ordinary means of measurement | IMMENSE |
E. | Water heater often on short legs | SAMOVAR |
F. | Switched back and forth between two options | TOGGLED |
G. | Rosalind's beloved in "As You Like It" | ORLANDO |
H. | Desired display on a bottom line | PROFIT |
I. | Cousin of a juke joint (hyph.) | HONKYTONK |
J. | Yellow spheroid (2 wds.) | EGGYOLK |
K. | Makes a gig or wherry go | ROWS |
L. | Where the Beatles performed from 1960 to 1962 | HAMBURG |
M. | Divisions akin to overs and ends | INNINGS |
N. | Some expenses on a road trip | TOLLS |
O. | Provider of effervescence at a party (2 wds.) | CLUBSODA |
P. | Role for Sacha Baron Cohen in "The Trial of the Chicago 7" | HOFFMAN |
Q. | Gemstone once mined in Egypt | EMERALD |
R. | Apt team color of the Seattle Mariners (2 wds.) | NAVYBLUE |
S. | White-coated canine | SAMOYED |
T. | Self-description of the quote's author, in terms of belief | ANTITHEIST |
U. | Indigenous people of Canada's Pacific Northwest | NOOTKA |
V. | Phase well past the prime of life | DOTAGE |
W. | Practice using a mat | YOGA |
X. | Epoch that's Greek for "new dawn" | EOCENE |
Y. | Like some heavy plates | TECTONIC |