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Across 1. Don't mull it ____. 4. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe... The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a ____ world. 7. The worst I'd had to escape was Artie, a strange-looking kid at school whose father was a _____. 10. Mr. Harvey would later say these words to my mother when he ran into her on the street: "I heard about the _____, ____ tragedy. 14. I was cold, but the natural _____ of his age, and the added fact that he was a neighbor and had talked to my father about fertilizer, rooted me to the spot. 17. At least I was spared that ____. 18. ____ is a perpetual yesterday for us 20. My favorite teacher was Mr. Botte, who taught biology and liked to ____ the frogs and crawfish we had to dissect by making them dance in their waxed pans. 22. As my father pulled into the garage, she would rush about, fixing him a cocktail, a dry sherry, and put on an _____ face: "You know junior high," she would say. 26. These were the lovely ____ that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. 27. Sometimes the ____ that come true are the ____ you never even knew you had 28. "Susie," my mother said, ____ up under the weight of it, a weight that she naively hoped might lighten someday, not knowing that it would only go on to hurt in new and varied ways for the rest of her life 29. "You ____ be more observant, Susie," he said. 30. I thought he was ____, but I thought it was a pitiful lie. 31. I could almost ____ up in it, but Mr. Harvey had to stoop.

Down 2. I stared at it in amazement, the dug-out shelf above him where he had placed matches, a row of batteries, and a battery-powered fluorescent lamp that cast the only light in the room --an _____ light that would make his features hard to see when he was on top of me. 3. "Try again," Mr. Harvey said, and he squatted down and knocked against the ____. 5. You could add to that that escape wasn't a _____ I had any real experience with. 6. I chose it both because it expressed my _______ for my structured surroundings a la the classroom and because, not being some dopey quote from a rock group, I thought it marked me as literary. 8. It was like _____ that a key works when it doesn't or yelling "I've got it, I've got it, I've got it" as a softball goes sailing over you into the stands 9. My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was ____ when I was murdered 11. We all knew this, so when he laughed at his own jokes, which were rusty way before I had him, we ____ too, forcing it sometimes just to make him happy. 12. By the time I popped up with enough wherewithal to look down at the goings-on on ____, I was more concerned with my family than anything else. 13. I was in my heaven by that time, fitting my limbs together, and couldn't believe his ____ 15. This story _____ me every time he told it, to the pastor of our church, to our neighbor Mrs. Stead, who was a therapist and whose take on it he wanted to hear, and to everyone who ever said "Susie has a lot of spunk!" 16. I guess I thought my father had told him one of the embarrassing ______ he saw merely as loving testaments to his children. 19. Murderers are not ____, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them. 20. But I was so ____ by how he had made a chimney that would draw smoke out if he ever chose to build a fire that the awkwardness of getting in and out of the hole wasn't even on my mind. 21. Mr. Botte came to my _____ (as, may I add, did almost the entire junior high school --I was never so popular) and cried quite a bit 23. He ___ grunting 24. Having ____ with this, my mother might rush Buckley into the room and say, "Play with your father," while she ducked into the kitchen and took a nip of sherry for herself. 25. I was in transit ___ this.