| Oscar cinematographer Nykvist | 29 |
| Name for a Swedish guy | 22 |
| Explorer ___ Anders Hedin | 25 |
| Dutch speed-skater Kramer | 25 |
| Bergman collaborator Nykvist | 28 |
| Evil hypnotist of fiction | 25 |
| Sinister, manipulative type | 27 |
| "Trilby" hypnotist | 28 |
| Malevolent manipulator | 22 |
| "Trilby" character | 28 |
| Joseph Stalin's daughter | 28 |
| Winning slot machine numbers | 28 |
| 'Law & Order: --' | 29 |
| "Law and Order: __" | 29 |
| Ice-T's show, briefly | 25 |
| A "Law & Order" | 29 |
| Namibia, formerly (initials) | 28 |
| Namibia until 1990, briefly | 27 |
| Windhoek's land: Abbr. | 26 |
| United competitor: Abbr. | 24 |
| Namibia, formerly: Abbr. | 24 |
| Forensic evidence collector | 27 |
| Medium for a medical sample | 27 |
| Bit of cotton on a stick | 24 |
| "Avast!" responder | 28 |
| Cotton-tipped ear cleaner | 25 |
| Take a DNA sample, perhaps | 26 |
| Hit the deck with a mop | 23 |
| Ear-cleaning implement | 22 |
| Do a deck hand's job | 24 |
| DNA collector, perhaps | 22 |
| Crack Up song to mop to? | 24 |
| Clean, as the poop deck | 23 |
| Collectors of DNA samples | 25 |
| Wrap tightly with a blanket | 27 |
| Captain Kidd's haul, e.g. | 29 |
| Highwayman's booty | 22 |
| Captain Kidd's haul | 23 |
| Presidential box festoon | 24 |
| Party giveaways, in slang | 25 |
| Oscar presenter's take | 26 |
| Wreath of flowers or fruit | 26 |
| Illicitly gained goods | 22 |
| Aussie vagrant's bundle | 27 |
| Tool for bending metal | 22 |
| Tool for shaping metal | 22 |
| Tool for bending cold metal | 27 |
| Festooned, like some curtains | 29 |
| Words on Kenyan currency | 24 |
| Widespread African language | 27 |
| Official language of Uganda | 27 |
| Official language of Tanzania | 29 |
| Official language of Kenya | 26 |
| It's heard in Tanzania | 26 |
| What the Bantu sleep on? | 24 |
| One who goes a-courting | 23 |
| Male admirer, in old parlance | 29 |
| They may come a-wooing | 22 |
| Letters on a love letter | 24 |
| Abbr. on a love letter | 22 |
| Loving letters on an envelope | 29 |
| Letters on some love letters | 28 |
| Acronym on love letters | 23 |
| Low, marshy land tract | 22 |
| 1984 Kentucky Derby winner | 26 |
| Accept, but maybe unhappily | 27 |
| Sword ___ at carnivals | 22 |
| Performer with a sword | 22 |
| What a repentant lion may do? | 29 |
| Part of a full-dress suit | 25 |
| Brightly marked butterflies | 27 |
| Emulated Michael Phelps | 23 |
| Did the butterfly, e.g. | 23 |
| Went from bank to bank? | 23 |
| Crossed the Rubicon, maybe | 26 |
| Competed with Michael Phelps | 28 |
| Competed in a triathlon | 23 |
| What R.E.M. did at night? | 25 |
| Used a natatory facility | 24 |
| Thao "When We ___" | 28 |
| Performed in an aquacade | 24 |
| Participated in a pool, say | 27 |
| Exercised in the water | 22 |
| Engaged in natatory exercise | 28 |
| Emulated Tracy Caulkins | 23 |
| Did the breaststroke, e.g. | 26 |
| Did the backstroke, e.g. | 24 |
| Did one-third of a triathlon | 28 |
| Completed part of a triathlon | 29 |
| Came crawling back, maybe | 25 |
| Hindu religious teacher | 23 |
| Recipient of many questions | 27 |
| Guy in a turban, maybe | 22 |
| Overwhelm, as with work | 23 |
| Will-o'-the-wisp locale | 27 |
| Washington, once, so they say | 29 |
| Washington, D.C., once | 22 |
| Setting for a fan boat ride | 27 |
| Gator's playground | 22 |
| "Adaptation" locale | 29 |