Song of Solomon, Chapter 3

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Across
  1. 3. "If you want to be a _______ man, you have to deal with the _________ truth."
  2. 4. Guitar admits he accidentally killed one while hunting.
  3. 6. Milkman figures out that he ____________ at an unusually old age (~four).
  4. 8. "What for? He was already __________." (Last line)
  5. 9. The bar where the boys talk about Milkman's dilemma.
  6. 12. Macon privately wishes he had _____________ Ruth in 1921.
  7. 14. The name of the Black boy who was "stomped to death" in Mississippi.
  8. 15. Ruth mistakenly takes _____________ at a Catholic wedding.
  9. 17. One of Milkman's ____________ is shorter than the other.
  10. 18. The name of the bar owner who wouldn't serve Milkman a beer.
Down
  1. 1. The character at Tommy's who somewhat blames Emmett Till for "acting big."
  2. 2. Dr. Foster, according to Macon, was the most ______________ Black person in town.
  3. 5. The one person whose clarity never fails Milkman.
  4. 7. Dr. Foster's nickname for Macon's real estate holdings.
  5. 10. These make Guitar physically ill.
  6. 11. Macon doesn't want his son to go to ____________.
  7. 13. Milkman feels a mix of pain and _________ after he "decks" his father.
  8. 16. What Dr. Foster would not give Macon when he asked.