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Across 1. He was just shaking his head slowly, ___. 6. Pseudovisions had been pointed out to me a couple times before on drives with my parents, but I’d never seen one so ___. 10. The day passed as it always did—in slow motion, with a thousand ___ glances at the clock. 12. And I was just about to say something when, in my ___ vision, I saw a large individual running toward us at a full sprint. 15. "Chuck,” I answered, as friendly as I could ___. 16. The stories, when they were shared, ___ ended with, I mean, can you believe it? 17. Despite its medical ___, this story had haunted Ben ever since. 19. Okay, don’t be so ___. 23. We were safely inside, everyone else’s conversations making ours ___. 26. They ___ at what a wonderful job they’d done raising me. 27. I tried to read “Song of Myself” again when I got home that night, but despite Dr. Holden’s advice, it still turned into a jumble of ___ words. 29. I headed off to government, Ben to an ___ about video game design. 30. I decided to move to a ___ place. 32. The correct answer is that we are all feeling like we will be happier after an a cappella ___ of ‘Blister in the Sun.' 33. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably ___. 35. Maybe because I spoke and maybe not, he slammed his hands against the lockers on either side of me and then leaned in close enough for me to ___ his toothpaste brand. 36. The novel was written by ___ ___. (2 Words) 38. ___ ___ ___ was a person, too. And I had never quite thought of her that way, not really; it was a failure of all my previous imaginings. (3 Words) 39. Ben would turn the key and the engine would turn over a couple times, like a fish on land making its last, ___, dying flops 41. “Do you think I’m ___?” 42. “We’ll get the word out, of course, but she can’t be ___ to come home; you shouldn’t necessarily expect her back under your roof in the near future.”

Down 2. We left him eleven messages, each more annoying and ___ than the last. 3. But when she stopped being this amazing ___thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness who’s kinda bossy—then I had to basically start liking a whole different person. 4. Margo managed to speak in her usual manic ___ without answering my question. 5. ...still have room to worry about such ___, ridiculous crap as whether the guy in the SUV behind me thought I was an excessively cautious driver. 7. Minivan, you albatross around my ___! 8. “Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the ___ idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds,” I added. 9. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with ___, but will instead require force. 10. Ben started ___ buttons, shouting, “Eat it, goblin! 11. Chuck hadn’t given us any serious trouble in a couple years—someone in cool kid land laid down the ___ that we were to be left alone. 13. Radar never told us anything about his love life, but this did not dissuade us from frequent ___. 14. Her scream is short but deafening, and in its wake I am aware for the first time of ___’s abject silence. 18. At its core, this book is about a boy who’s in love with a ___ ___ ___ ___, but instead of existing solely to enrich his life, she teaches him that she’s a person in her own right and that our ideas of the people we know are never exactly the same as who they really are. (4 Words) 20. We are looking for something unusual. Some crack in the perfectly ___ landscape. 21. “Radar is going to prom,” he said ___. 22. The classrooms were ___; we walked toward them together, the three of us in a row, trusting that the tide of classmates would part enough to let us by, and it did 24. “You’re being kind of ___ about it.” 25. Margo Roth Spiegelman, whose six-syllable name was often spoken in its entirety with a kind of quiet ___ 28. Radar put the handheld away finally and nodded ___. 31. What a ___ thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person. 33. On each calendar, it is ___ February of 1986. 34. I nodded ___. 37. I watched clocks through two more classes, and then finally the relief ___ out of my chest when I was finished 40. Unscrew the doors themselves from their ___!