The River Memphis

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Across
  1. 2. Where Cheops would have felt at home
  2. 6. Memphis neighborhood named for what immigrants had little of
  3. 12. What Bessie Smith sang, traveling the circuit
  4. 13. What Memphis argues about, with conviction
  5. 15. What Williams named for desire
  6. 17. Whose elevator company built the early skyscrapers
  7. 20. What Sam Phillips opened first, the Union Avenue one
  8. 21. What Camus's stranger walked into, on the beach
  9. 22. Once Memphis's most-traded animal, by the thousands
  10. 23. What Hopper painted, in his Hotel by a Railroad
  11. 25. What Faulkner drank, between sentences
  12. 28. Hart Crane's, that he jumped from
Down
  1. 1. W.C., the father of the form, who took it from the field
  2. 3. What runs past Yoknapatawpha, slowly
  3. 4. Whose name B.B. gave to a guitar, after a fire
  4. 5. Whose bluffs the city was built on
  5. 7. What Cooper-Young streets still pave with, in patches
  6. 8. What political window swings through, in election years
  7. 9. What the '27 flood overtopped, catastrophically
  8. 10. What Faulkner's fields kept growing, into the next century
  9. 11. What flattens out, south of here
  10. 14. Whose surname still rules a small kingdom in Whitehaven
  11. 16. Whose Costello tour Memphis won't quit announcing
  12. 18. What the city sits on, four of them
  13. 19. What the Peabody marches, twice daily
  14. 20. Street the city zoned for music, professionally
  15. 21. What the Staple Singers recorded for, when the studio still stood
  16. 24. What Twain knew were down there, on the bottom
  17. 26. Where the Peabody ducks still take the elevator
  18. 27. Lear's daughters, three to count