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 |