Across
- 2. For instance, all three of these boys’ uniforms are always spotless as ___________. White and cold and stiff as her own.
- 6. Most Wheelers are just Chronics with bad legs, they feed themselves, but there’s these three of them got no action from the neck down whatsoever, not much from the neck up. These are called _____________.
- 9. Sometimes a manipulator’s own ends are simply the actual _________ of the ward for the sake of ________.
- 10. The Chief cracks open one of the red capsules and finds a miniature ____________ element within that dissolved on contact with air.
- 12. The Big Nurse picks her black boys based on their ability to ___________.
- 13. Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of ________ story that might be real funny if it weren’t for the cartoon figures being real guys.
Down
- 1. McMurphy is a _________, according to the Big Nurse.
- 3. Working alongside others like her who I call the “__________,” which is a huge organization that aims to adjust the Outside as well as she has the Inside, has made her a real veteran at adjusting things.
- 4. Referred to by the black boys as an ol' fart.
- 5. The ward hums the way I heard a _______ hum once when the football team played a high school in California. After a good season one year the boosters in the town were so proud and carried away that they paid to fly us to California to play a championship high-school team down there.
- 7. I told her about the fluff. She rolled her eyes and ducked her mouth to laugh in her fist when I told her how it was like looking at her face out on a misty morning duck-hunting. And she said, “Now what in the everlovin’ world would you want with me out alone in a duck blind?” I told her she could take care of my _________, and the girls all over the mill went to giggling in their fists. I laughed a little myself, seeing how clever I’d been. We were still talking and laughing when she grabbed both my wrists and dug in.
- 8. “Do,” she said to me in a whisper, “do take me, _________. Outa this here mill, outa this town, outa this life. Take me to some ol’ duck blind someplace. Someplace else. Huh, _______, huh?”
- 11. Past intolerable ward manipulator.