| Electric-power problem | 22 |
| Computer hazard | 15 |
| Come on strong | 14 |
| Coastal resident's hurricane worry | 38 |
| Circuit board destroyer | 23 |
| Rushed forward | 14 |
| Swelled | 7 |
| Tossed on the waves | 19 |
| Progressed in waves | 19 |
| Increased rapidly, as troop numbers | 35 |
| Came on strong | 14 |
| "Scalpel!" requester | 30 |
| Walter Reed, e.g. | 17 |
| Operation VIP | 13 |
| Hospital specialist | 19 |
| Operator, of a sort | 19 |
| Medical VIP | 11 |
| Heart or brain follower | 23 |
| Big-time operator? | 18 |
| It has knifelike spines on its tail | 35 |
| Oceanic operator? | 17 |
| It has scalpellike spines on its tail | 37 |
| Medical bigwigs | 15 |
| Doctors on the cutting edge? | 28 |
| Certain operators | 17 |
| Health V.I.P.'s | 19 |
| It might keep your motherboard from getting fried | 49 |
| They may avert computer damage | 30 |
| Power strip parts, often | 24 |
| Doctor's office, to Brits | 29 |
| Angioplasties and such | 22 |
| Electrical phenomena | 20 |
| Voltage spikes | 14 |
| Wells forth | 11 |
| Quick voltage increases | 23 |
| Protective feature of most power strips | 39 |
| Energy increase authorization? | 30 |
| Quite precise | 13 |
| Precise, so to speak | 20 |
| Of operations | 13 |
| Like operations | 15 |
| Extremely precise | 17 |
| Smart curing utensils | 21 |
| Tom and Katie's kid | 23 |
| Tom Cruise's daughter | 25 |
| Young Cruise | 12 |
| TomKat's girl | 17 |
| TomKat's daughter | 21 |
| TomKat's child | 18 |
| Six-month-old cover girl | 24 |
| Daughter once nicknamed "TomKitten" by the media | 58 |
| Daughter of Tom and Katie | 25 |
| Daughter dubbed "TomKitten" by the press | 50 |
| A Cruise | 8 |
| Paste used to imitate crabmeat | 30 |
| Faux crabmeat paste | 19 |
| Haiti-born Canuck Olympic track star | 36 |
| Dutch Guiana, today | 19 |
| Dutch Guiana, now | 17 |
| South America's smallest country | 36 |
| S.A. country, old style | 23 |
| Paramaribo is its capital | 25 |
| One of South America's smallest republics, formerly | 55 |
| Its capital is Paramaribo | 25 |
| Country once known as Dutch Guiana (var.) | 41 |
| Brazilian neighbor with fewer than half a million people | 56 |
| Smallest country on its continent | 33 |
| Smallest country in South America | 33 |
| Country where Taki-Taki is spoken | 33 |
| More cranky | 11 |
| Less good-natured | 17 |
| Comparatively cantankerous | 26 |
| Worst-tempered | 14 |
| Most grumpy | 11 |
| Sullenly ill-humored | 20 |
| Rude and sullen | 15 |
| Not exactly wholesome | 21 |
| Inclined to anger | 17 |
| Sullen and gruff | 16 |
| One of the Seven Duffs at Duff Gardens | 38 |
| Like a sourpuss | 15 |
| Gruff or glum | 13 |
| Distinctly uncooperative | 24 |
| What grumpy old men might experience? | 37 |
| Scary place to pray? | 20 |
| Made an educated guess | 22 |
| Engaged in conjecture | 21 |
| Overcome an obstacle | 20 |
| Overcome, as obstacles | 22 |
| Overcome, as an obstacle | 24 |
| For Americans, it's always last | 35 |
| Smith or Jones, e.g. | 20 |
| Part of a signature | 19 |
| Family identifier | 17 |
| The Terrible or the Great, e.g. | 31 |
| Smith or Jones, i.e. | 20 |
| Mathers, to Eminem | 18 |
| Jones or Johnson | 16 |
| Family-tree entry | 17 |
| Family need | 11 |