| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| SIC | [as per the original] |
| SIC | [per the original] |
| UCLA | It's part of the eight original "Public Ivy" schs., per author Richard Moll |
| TACT | "The ability to describe others as they see themselves," per Lincoln |
| GAZE | The Sphinx's is "blank and pitiless as the sun," per Yeats |
| SOAPOPERAS | "Sex and Suffering in the Afternoon," as per a 1976 Time magazine cover |
| MARTINI | "The only American invention as perfect as a sonnet," per H. L. Mencken |
