| Bay of Pigs site | 16 |
| Arnaz's birthplace | 22 |
| Actor Gooding | 13 |
| A discovery of 1492 | 19 |
| A discovery in 1492 | 19 |
| A 1492 find | 11 |
| A 1492 discovery | 16 |
| 2006 World Baseball Classic runners-up | 38 |
| 1962 crisis area | 16 |
| 1950s coup site | 15 |
| 1492 discovery | 14 |
| "The Pearl of the Antilles" | 37 |
| ___ sugar (lump for Castro?) | 28 |
| ___ libre, rum drink | 20 |
| ___ libre (rum drink) | 21 |
| ___ libre (cocktail) | 20 |
| Tropical rum drink | 18 |
| Old-fashioned alternative | 25 |
| Cola cocktail | 13 |
| Cola + lime + rum | 17 |
| Big drinking night, stop #3 (tapas bar) | 39 |
| Kind of heel | 12 |
| Like Desi Arnaz | 15 |
| Popular cigar | 13 |
| From Havana | 11 |
| Castro, for one | 15 |
| Castro | 6 |
| Mark who bought a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks from Ross Perot's son | 82 |
| High-quality cigar | 18 |
| Havana native | 13 |
| Cherished cigar | 15 |
| Che Guevara, e.g. | 17 |
| Castro, e.g. | 12 |
| Resident of Daiquirà | 23 |
| Person from Havana | 18 |
| Oriente native | 14 |
| Like the rumba, originally | 26 |
| Like some sought-after cigars | 29 |
| Like many sought-after cigars | 29 |
| Like many Miamians, by birth | 28 |
| Like Desi Arnaz, by birth | 25 |
| Kind of heel or cigar | 21 |
| Isle of Youth dweller | 21 |
| Freedom-fighter Marti for one | 30 |
| Fidel Castro, e.g. | 18 |
| Desi Arnaz, for one | 19 |
| Dallas Mavericks owner Mark | 27 |
| Daiquirà resident | 20 |
| Castro or Batista | 17 |
| Camagüey-born | 16 |
| Camagüey native | 18 |
| "___ Love Song," 1931 hit | 35 |
| Flamenco dancer's footwear | 30 |
| Caribbean cad? | 14 |
| Bread-end, in Havana | 20 |
| Cramped space | 13 |
| Hole for sorting | 16 |
| Snug spots | 10 |
| Small, snug spaces | 18 |
| Cut up, as cheese, perhaps | 26 |
| Kind of steak | 13 |
| Sugar unit | 10 |
| Cheese chunk | 12 |
| Sugar shape | 11 |
| Kind of root | 12 |
| Type of steak | 13 |
| 27, to 3 | 8 |
| Sugar serving | 13 |
| Rubik's baffler | 19 |
| Ice unit | 8 |
| Cut into small pieces | 21 |
| Third power | 11 |
| Six-sided solid | 15 |
| Rubik creation | 14 |
| Raise to the third power | 24 |
| Square to the max | 17 |
| Die, for example | 16 |
| Die, e.g. | 9 |
| Word with flash or sugar | 24 |
| Word with flash or ice | 22 |
| Take to a higher power | 22 |
| Rubik's teaser | 18 |
| Rubik's invention | 21 |
| Rubik's hexahedron | 22 |
| Rubik's ___ | 15 |
| Piece of ice | 12 |
| Mixer's frozen asset | 24 |
| Kind of root or steak | 21 |
| It has six faces | 16 |
| Geometric form | 14 |
| Erno's geometric shape | 26 |
| Bit of ice | 10 |
| 1, 8 or 27 | 10 |
| Take to the third power | 23 |
| Take to a higher power? | 23 |
| Sugar lump | 10 |
| Sugar formation | 15 |
| Sugar bowl unit | 15 |
| Sugar ____ | 10 |
| Small piece of meat | 19 |