STEPHEN KING, ON WRITING — Take any noun, put it with any verb, and you have a sentence. It never fails. Rocks explode. Jane transmits. Mountains float. ... Many such thoughts make little... sense, but even the stranger ones... have a kind of poetic weight... .
| A. | Bars in westerns ... | SALOONS |
| B. | ... get more restrictive. (2 wds.) | TIGHTENUP |
| C. | Singer of "I'd Rather Go Blind" ... (2 wds.) | ETTAJAMES |
| D. | ... started a work shift. (2 wds.) | PUNCHEDIN |
| E. | Brooding beau in "Wuthering Heights" ... | HEATHCLIFF |
| F. | ... began to adapt. | EVOLVED |
| G. | World leader who's known as "Bibi" ... | NETANYAHU |
| H. | ... goes paddling through white water. | KAYAKS |
| I. | Brothers in arms with their feet on the ground ... | INFANTRYMEN |
| J. | ... arrange things in order. | NEATEN |
| K. | Title city in a Glen Campbell song ... | GALVESTON |
| L. | ... erected excess edifices. | OVERBUILT |
| M. | Basher, The Boss, The Possum, etc. ... | NICKNAMES |
| N. | ... feel the burn. (2 wds.) | WORKOUT |
| O. | Tepidarium, caldarium and frigidarium ... (2 wds.) | ROMANBATHS |
| P. | ... bring on John Barleycorn's effect. | INTOXICATE |
| Q. | Minotaur's match ... | THESEUS |
| R. | ... answered questions one on one. | INTERVIEWED |
| S. | Absolute beginners ... | NEOPHYTES |
| T. | ... appear on TV shows as celebrities. (hyph.) | GUESTSTAR |