Across
- 4. A political gangster from Shanghai (two words)
- 5. Describes Mrs. Tan's English
- 8. How much some claim to grasp of Mrs. Tan's English
- 11. Amy Tan insists she is not this kind of intellectual
- 12. The profession of the person who angered Mrs. Tan
Down
- 1. Amy Tan's breakthrough novel about mothers (four words)
- 2. Paired with 18-across, part of a line that Amy Tan called "terrible"
- 3. A subject Amy Tan scored Bs in
- 6. A subject Amy Tan was assumed to excel in
- 7. Paired with 17-down, also part of the same "terrible" line
- 9. How Mrs. Tan described reading her daughter's best-selling book
- 10. A type of medical scan