| Four-time Pro Bowler Ahmad | 26 |
| Cosby's co-star | 19 |
| Commentator and former NFL player Ahmad | 39 |
| 1980s Cosby co-star | 19 |
| 1979 Pro Bowl MVP Ahmad | 23 |
| "The Cosby Show" co-star | 34 |
| "Cosby" actress Phylicia | 34 |
| "Cosby Show" co-star | 30 |
| Classes for would-be dermatologists? | 36 |
| Hebrew scholar: 1040–1105 | 32 |
| Famed Jewish biblical commentator | 33 |
| Foolhardiness | 13 |
| Undue haste | 11 |
| Hotspur's fault | 19 |
| "When firmness is sufficient ___": Napoleon | 53 |
| The dermatologist came out with a ___ | 37 |
| Classic 1950 film presented mostly in flashback | 47 |
| 1951 Akira Kurosawa film | 24 |
| 1950 Kurosawa classic | 21 |
| 1950 film that retells the same events four times | 49 |
| 1950 crime drama told from differing points of view | 51 |
| 1950 Akira Kurosawa film | 24 |
| Too-fast commitment | 19 |
| "The Westing Game" author Ellen ___ | 45 |
| Murderer of a pawnbroker in a famous novel | 42 |
| Finnish alt-rockers, with "The" | 41 |
| Cleric's gown | 17 |
| Cassock's relative | 22 |
| Clerical gowns | 14 |
| Scratching the ground, as chickens | 34 |
| Given to scratching the ground | 30 |
| 1985 Prince hit | 15 |
| Sweet hit by Prince | 19 |
| Prince tune of '85 | 22 |
| 1985 hit by Prince | 18 |
| Fruity vodka cocktail, behind bars? | 35 |
| Newsman Rather saying "Phttphbphb!" as he left CBS? | 61 |
| Simple fruit dessert | 20 |
| Cow's dessert? | 18 |
| Recorder of Munchausen's travels | 36 |
| Real author of Baron Munchausen's tales | 43 |
| Gravelly voiced speaker | 23 |
| Speaker with a sore throat, say | 31 |
| Machine for scraping sugarcane | 30 |
| Hardly one with a lilting voice | 31 |
| Abrader | 7 |
| Some laryngitis sufferers | 25 |
| More scratchy, as a voice | 25 |
| More like a hoarse voice | 24 |
| More hoarse sounding | 20 |
| Less mellifluous | 16 |
| Feather duster's gay best friend in "Beauty and the Beast," as portrayed by Harvey Fierstein? | 107 |
| Filing expert | 13 |
| WhoÂ’s Grigory Yefimovich Novykh? | 36 |
| The Mad Monk | 12 |
| Siberian monk | 13 |
| Russian mystic | 14 |
| Role in "Nicholas and Alexandra" | 42 |
| Noted Russian fixer | 19 |
| Noted Russian | 13 |
| L. Barrymore or Purdom | 22 |
| Ill-starred monk | 16 |
| Grigori Efimovich | 17 |
| Friend of Czar Nicholas | 23 |
| Controversial "Mad Monk" of Russian history | 53 |
| Alexandra's friend | 22 |
| 1996 Emmy-winning role for Alan Rickman | 39 |
| Snake with a sore throat? | 25 |
| With a hoarse timbre | 20 |
| Grizzled civet | 14 |
| Lesser civet | 12 |
| Tree-climbing civet | 19 |
| Eastern civet | 13 |
| Civet prized by Javanese | 24 |
| Civet | 5 |
| Chinese civet | 13 |
| Samuel Johnson hero | 19 |
| Romance by Samuel Johnson | 25 |
| Dr. Johnson's prince | 24 |
| Sedate, in Paris | 16 |
| Grappled, slangily | 18 |
| Grappled, rural-style | 21 |
| Goes at it, so to speak | 23 |
| Gets down 'n' dirty | 27 |
| Fights with, in the hills | 25 |
| Tangles with, in the country | 28 |
| Struggles with, as a varmint | 28 |
| Struggles with, as a critter | 28 |
| Scraps in the sticks | 20 |
| Scraps in the backwoods | 23 |
| Grapples, in the sticks | 23 |
| Grapples with, slangily | 23 |
| Grapples with, as a critter | 27 |
| Gits in a scrap (with) | 22 |
| Gets down and dirty with | 24 |
| Fights without punchin' | 27 |
| Fights in the sticks | 20 |
| Person who believes Haile Selassie was the Messiah | 50 |
| Black cat that packs grass and chants "Jah" | 53 |
| Members of a Jamaican religious sect | 36 |