Lesson V-8: Alternative Media The Man tells them everything will be all right… you tell them everything will be all right if they send you donations.

It's hard to become a good writer without knowing your boundaries. To help get you oriented (not that that's really possible), one letter has been placed and the longest grid entry has been shaded.

CHAINS

• American blues song type, or pretentious nonsense
  Dance name yelled out during West Side Story
  Stretch too far for something
• Citizen Toxie studio
  Pays to play
  Most severe in discipline
• Cocktail with tequila and salt
  Sculpture or paintings
  Topological surface on which you should visualize this puzzle's grid
  Animated character voiced by David Thewlis
• Dogg's Hamlet, ________ MacBeth
  Ab-strengthening rep
  Not written in verse
• Drawn up again, as blueprints
  Eliminate programming errors in
  Animal that might be mistaken for a croc
• Epic, like The Iliad or The Odyssey
  Opposite of an idealist
  Battery terminal
  Hunted congers
  Caused to seem inferior
  Length and width complement
• Gushing, as a volcano
  Increase
  They're taken during lectures
• Mary Callahan's position
  Property of sandpaper or stormy seas
  Layers beneath the surface soil
  Official school song
• Rock percussionist
  Rock percussionist Starr
  Asked for in a restaurant
• Silent _____ (2005 rock critic fave)
  Processes applied to faces or houses on reality TV
  Fed sufficiently
  Reduced drastically
  Character killed by Othello in Act V
• Timon, for one
  Knight of a religious military order
  Kingdom or sphere
• Virile like Randy Savage
  Across the ocean, to a Brit
  Lincoln or Simpson