| Lanternfish's home | 22 |
| Lanternfish milieu | 18 |
| Intervals on a sounding line | 28 |
| Fathomless waters | 17 |
| Fathom measures | 15 |
| Chasms in the Black and White | 29 |
| Areas explored by submarines | 28 |
| "Far in yon azure ___": Longfellow | 44 |
| Tank carrier? | 13 |
| Contact liquid | 14 |
| Fun in a sub? | 13 |
| Oceanaut's haunts | 21 |
| Difficult to eradicate | 22 |
| Thoroughly ingrained | 20 |
| Ocean salvaging equipment | 25 |
| Sound that's heaved | 23 |
| Tossed over the side | 20 |
| Threw overboard | 15 |
| Junked | 6 |
| Outside the solar system | 24 |
| Hibernation | 11 |
| Blackout condition? | 19 |
| Heavy winter fall | 17 |
| Gulf Coast, etc. | 16 |
| Dixie component | 15 |
| Probe's destination | 23 |
| The Grand Canyon, e.g.? | 23 |
| Distant regions of the universe | 31 |
| Toppers for G-suits? | 20 |
| Marceau very far from Earth? | 28 |
| A "Star Trek" | 23 |
| 90's TV spinoff series | 26 |
| 'Star Trek' spin-off | 28 |
| Sunbather's hue | 19 |
| Pensive state | 13 |
| Ruminations | 11 |
| Bomb expert? | 12 |
| Film in which the main character has ample headroom? | 52 |
| Source for Woodward | 19 |
| Famed Watergate tipster | 23 |
| Advice-giving ruminant? | 23 |
| Doe, in song | 12 |
| Morsel for Bambi? | 17 |
| Horn-to-horn contact sport? | 27 |
| "Animals jaywalking, use caution" | 43 |
| Where Bambi records his private thoughts? | 41 |
| Show hosted by Bambi the Blogger? | 33 |
| Riding mower that doubles as a British luxury car? | 50 |
| Ponderings from behind a plow? | 30 |
| Wetland bloodsucker | 19 |
| Antelope, in "Home on the Range?" | 43 |
| Small cattail | 13 |
| Animalistic Glenn Ford romantic comedy of 1964? | 47 |
| Elongated mussel | 16 |
| Scottish hunting dog | 20 |
| Large dog bred for hunting | 26 |
| 1978 Best Picture (with "The") | 40 |
| 1978 Best Picture (with ''The'') | 48 |
| Words beneath a buck | 20 |
| Playing the toady | 17 |
| Characters written on the restroom wall by Bambi? | 49 |
| Chevrotains | 11 |
| Woods game | 10 |
| Woodland rodent | 15 |
| Mailer's "The ___" | 32 |
| Norman Mailer's town | 24 |
| Norman Mailer novel, with "The" | 41 |
| Mailer work, with "The" | 33 |
| Mailer novel, with "The" | 34 |
| Species of ruminants | 20 |
| Some stags | 10 |
| Seasonal targets | 16 |
| Red and spotted, e.g. | 21 |
| Mule and whitetail | 18 |
| Harts and does | 14 |
| Fantails and roes | 17 |
| Fantails and others | 19 |
| Caribou and elk | 15 |
| Bambi's folks | 17 |
| Start of a Christmas letter from Rudolph? | 41 |
| Western herb | 12 |
| Band that treats phobias by hunting? | 36 |
| Moccasin material | 17 |
| Colonial clothing material | 26 |
| Hide among pioneers? | 20 |
| Natty Bumppo prize | 18 |
| Leather for a frontiersman | 26 |
| Hide in the woods | 17 |
| Fur trader's supply | 23 |
| Doe leather | 11 |
| Buck's hide | 15 |
| Some leather garments | 21 |
| Garments for Cooper characters | 30 |
| James Fenimore Cooper novel, with 'The' | 47 |
| Chronologically first but last-published of the Leatherstocking Tales, with "The" | 91 |
| Bambi's equals | 18 |
| Hat favored by Sherlock Homes | 29 |
| Cap with flaps | 14 |
| Lyme disease carrier | 20 |
| Middle of a driver's quip | 29 |