THE PLOT: In a bistro in Paris a young woman (A) tells her three girlfriends (B, C, and D) about the affair she had with an American tourist, who returned home promising to write, and hasn't. It's been over two weeks; something must have happened to him. (She has just learned she is carrying his child, but she doesn't tell her friends.) B tells her to call him; C to e-mail him; D to forget all about him. Enter a fat American couple; each of them has a different speech impediment. They order food. The man chokes. A performs the Heimlich maneuver on him, and saves his life.

THE AMERICAN MAN, THE TOURIST, AND CLAIRE
Brooks Reeves

Across
1. What did The American man in the restaurant do?
3. What did he pour down his throat to alleviate this condition?
6. Who hath forsaken both him and Claire?
8. How did The Tourist describe Claire during their last meeting?
9. How has Claire decided to act regarding this situation?
11. Where is Claire's tourist now?
13. Paris is to "to" as 11 Across is to _____.
14. Which of Claire's girlfriends told her that she should begin to stalk The Tourist online?
15. What did the American Man see as the oxygen left his brain and he briefly passed this life?
18. What would The Tourist prefer to be doing instead of raising his soon-to-be son?
20. What has Claire decided to name this soon to be son?
21. What did The Tourist always call Claire?
23. Which of Claire's friends told her to have an abortion and pretend like it never happened?
25. What did the American Man start doing once he received his dinner?
27. What did his wife have?
28. Where did the American Man and his wife eat this fateful meal?
29. What was the last word The Tourist ever said to Claire?

Down
1. How did then American Man mispronounce "going to"?
2. Once the offending piece of food had been lodged out of his esophagus, what was the
first word uttered by the American Man?
3. What is the question that keeps Claire up at night?
4. What does the American Man's wife suffer from?
5. What did Claire eat on that fateful day?

7. What emotional state was she in when she ate it?
10. Once she realized The Tourist was never coming back, what did Claire consume so much of it had to be pumped from her stomach?
12. What did the American Man consume so much of it had to be pumped out of his?
13. What is the only name Claire knows The Tourist by?
15. What name does she think of him now by?
16. What was the restaurant's soup of the day (a soup I might add all parties concerned would have been better off having)?
17. What color did the American Man's face turn when Claire began pumping on his chest?
19. When she thinks of his face now, Claire turns ___.
22. What word best describes The American Man?
24. What word best describes what he was trying to get?
25. What did his wife at first think the problem was?
26. What did Claire crack in dislodging the pastry?