Featured clue | 1-across: Controversial hangers-on from the 2000 election
Factoid | 22-down: Emily Dickinson is sometimes associated with Transcendentalism like Emerson and Thoreau. Transcendentalists believe in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly “self-reliant” and independent. Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday, rather than believing in a distant heaven.