| Whodunit sine qua non | 21 |
| What's built by lifting? | 28 |
| Type of shop | 12 |
| Type of builder | 15 |
| Soul companion | 14 |
| Shampoo's promise | 21 |
| Shampoo promise | 15 |
| Quality of wine or hair | 23 |
| Part of a shampoo promise | 25 |
| Murder mystery find | 19 |
| Murder mystery discovery | 24 |
| Mr. Universe's moneymaker | 29 |
| Miss Marple discovery | 21 |
| Legislature, for one | 20 |
| Kind of English or language | 27 |
| Kind of check or guard | 22 |
| Kind of builder or suit | 23 |
| It's purely physical | 24 |
| House or senate | 15 |
| Futile kind of English | 22 |
| Ending for busy or home | 23 |
| Christie's "The ___ in the Library" | 49 |
| Chalk outline indication, maybe | 31 |
| Builder's target? | 21 |
| "Whose ___?" (Sayers book) | 36 |
| ''___ and Soul'' (1930 song) | 44 |
| ___ politic | 11 |
| VIP protector | 13 |
| V.I.P. protector | 16 |
| V.I.P. accompanier | 18 |
| Fender unbender? | 16 |
| Auto-dent repairer | 18 |
| Place to fix this puzzle's theme words? | 43 |
| It may be waiting for an accident to happen | 43 |
| Fender-fixing facility | 22 |
| Certain repair site | 19 |
| Wrestling maneuver | 18 |
| Pro wrestling move | 18 |
| Wrestling throw | 15 |
| Throw to the canvas | 19 |
| Wrestler, at times | 18 |
| 98.6, more or less | 18 |
| In this, a "." is a "point" | 47 |
| Plane manufacturer | 18 |
| Airbus alternative | 18 |
| 757 maker | 9 |
| They make planes, not trampolines | 33 |
| Lockheed rival | 14 |
| It doesn't sell trampolines | 31 |
| Dreamliner developer | 20 |
| Aerospace biggie | 16 |
| 747 maker | 9 |
| Transvaal settler | 17 |
| Afrikaner | 9 |
| Dutch South African | 19 |
| South African | 13 |
| South African settler | 21 |
| Orange Free State settler | 25 |
| 1899-1902 war participant | 25 |
| ___ War | 7 |
| African of Dutch descent | 24 |
| War of 1899-1902 | 16 |
| Great Trek participant | 22 |
| Dutch colonist | 14 |
| Transvaal farmer | 16 |
| South African Dutch | 19 |
| Transvaal trekker | 17 |
| Smuts, e.g. | 11 |
| Great Trek participant of the 1830s | 35 |
| Combatant of 1899 | 17 |
| Certain Afrikaner | 17 |
| Afrikaans speaker | 17 |
| ___ War (1899-1902) | 19 |
| War of yore | 11 |
| Uitlander foe | 13 |
| South African trekker | 21 |
| South African Dutchman | 22 |
| Smuts, for one | 14 |
| One of the wars | 15 |
| Great Trek trekker | 18 |
| Great Trek figure | 17 |
| Great Trek emigrant | 19 |
| Anglo-___ War | 13 |
| A South African | 15 |
| A Capetown citizen | 18 |
| 1899–1902 war participant | 29 |
| War of 1899–1902 | 23 |
| Veld settler | 12 |
| Uitlander foe: 1899–1902 | 31 |
| Two-time belligerent against the British Empire | 47 |
| Turn-of-the-20th-century war participant | 40 |
| Transvaal resident | 18 |
| Transvaal native | 16 |
| Transvaal dweller | 17 |
| Speaker of Afrikaans | 20 |
| South African war | 17 |
| South African of Dutch descent | 30 |
| South African descendant of Dutch colonists | 43 |
| South African colonist | 22 |
| South African citizen | 21 |