Six Down...Starts with a "D"

[Talisman]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> But...but...but...  My ten-year-old could do it. <_<

Talisman, who really enjoys a good crossword: Didn't that bite? I
knew it wouldn't be "hard," but...

I enlisted a couple of Potter-versant nine-year-olds to answer the
clues while I played scribe. It was still no challenge.

Alas.

Anne:
> *gives Talisman a punch on the arm for continually disappearing and
> then popping back up unexpectedly*
>

Talisman: Gives Anne a you-know-what-eating grin. I'm just following
that old maxim: If you can't say anything nice...

By the way, you posted something that hit the right chord a while
back, want to have a little off-camera chat?

Talisman: counting on her talons: My Combat Medic son just got back
from Iraq, the people I know in London weren't on the wrong
train, and my wounded-Marine son just got evacuated from Pensacola.
That makes three, right? Does that mean I'm clear--for the nonce?