| En route | 8 |
| Betrayed one's exclamation | 30 |
| "Has the whole world gone mad?!" | 42 |
| Where candy is locked away? | 27 |
| Public protest against Hawaiian noisemakers? | 44 |
| Objects intuited but not seen | 29 |
| Opposite of phenomenal | 22 |
| Having real existence | 21 |
| Traffic sign literally violated 12 times in this puzzle | 55 |
| Of certain words | 16 |
| Of a part of speech | 19 |
| Of a certain word | 17 |
| Of a certain part of speech | 27 |
| Like words for people, places, and things | 41 |
| Fashion rule for the liberated ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle | 93 |
| Flowery adjectives? | 19 |
| What this puzzle has? (not really) | 34 |
| Strict grammarian's bugaboo? | 32 |
| Silly goose or sitting duck | 27 |
| High bluff, in Scotland | 23 |
| Sign stating you can't go back immediately | 46 |
| Turnpike warning | 16 |
| Traffic directive | 17 |
| Sign on a divided highway | 25 |
| Sign often seen on median strips | 32 |
| Sign at an intersection | 23 |
| Sign at a median break | 22 |
| Freeway caution | 15 |
| Parkway prohibition | 19 |
| Oft-disobeyed road sign | 23 |
| Freeway prohibitions | 20 |
| Provision at some busy intersections | 36 |
| ___ riche | 9 |
| Recently created | 16 |
| __ riche | 8 |
| Lately developed | 16 |
| Beaujolais ___ | 14 |
| --- riche | 9 |
| ___ riche (upstart) | 19 |
| Old-money families look down on them | 36 |
| Style eschewing heavy sauces | 28 |
| A modern style of French cooking | 32 |
| Bad sign for a traveler? | 24 |
| The Cabots' discovery in 1497 | 33 |
| Locale of Dartmouth and Sydney | 30 |
| Land of Evangeline | 18 |
| Halifax's home | 18 |
| Cape Breton locale | 18 |
| Acadia, today | 13 |
| Replace old obligations with new | 32 |
| Dismaying realization at a bank that's just been robbed? | 60 |
| Italian numeral | 15 |
| Nine, in Napoli | 15 |
| Predecessor of dieci | 20 |
| Work of fiction, south of the border | 36 |
| Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain," e.g. | 49 |
| 10,000 words, perhaps | 21 |
| "Flowers for Algernon," e.g. | 38 |
| Longish stories | 15 |
| Long short stories | 18 |
| Unusual occurrences | 19 |
| English Lit class: A -- “All we had to do was read one book; a very ___” | 80 |
| Stephen, but not the saint | 26 |
| King of horror | 14 |
| Longer kin of short stories | 27 |
| Boccaccio tales | 15 |
| "Death in Venice" and "Of Mice and Men" | 59 |
| "Billy Budd" and "Of Mice and Men" | 54 |
| "Animal Farm" et al. | 30 |
| Short tales, from the Italian | 29 |
| It's longer than a Kurzgeschichte (short story) | 51 |
| German narrative genre | 22 |
| Boccaccio's tales | 21 |
| Father Guido Sarducci player | 28 |
| Playwright-composer Ivor | 24 |
| '30s entertainer Ivor | 25 |
| Fiction fan | 11 |
| Fictional works | 15 |
| Wouk works | 10 |
| Trollope offerings | 18 |
| Steel works? | 12 |
| Steel production? | 17 |
| Some book club choices | 22 |
| Pulitzer Prize contenders | 25 |
| Michener works | 14 |
| Michener products | 17 |
| Michener creations | 18 |
| Many bestsellers | 16 |
| Major fiction | 13 |
| Fiction works | 13 |
| Fiction books | 13 |
| Dickens's output | 20 |
| Dickens output | 14 |
| Darden Smith "Two Dollar ___" | 39 |
| Book-ad listings | 16 |
| Bellow's books | 18 |
| "Rabbit, Run" and "Rabbit Redux," e.g. | 58 |
| "Jane Eyre" et al. | 28 |
| "Burr" and "Lincoln" | 40 |
| They're new and unusual | 27 |