| Occurrence after the fall | 25 |
| Longest or shortest day | 23 |
| First day of summer or winter | 29 |
| Summer and winter events | 24 |
| June and December occurrences | 29 |
| Budapest-born conductor | 23 |
| Conductor from Budapest | 23 |
| Sir Georg with a baton | 22 |
| Longtime Chicago maestro | 24 |
| Longtime Chicago leader | 23 |
| Late conductor Sir Georg | 24 |
| Knighted conductor Georg | 24 |
| Hungarian conductor Georg | 25 |
| Grammy-winning conductor | 24 |
| Conductor Sir Georg ___ | 23 |
| Capable of being explained | 26 |
| Salt in salt water, e.g. | 24 |
| The sugar in your latte, say | 28 |
| Alka-Seltzer in water, e.g. | 27 |
| Alka Seltzer in water, e.g. | 27 |
| Sugar and salt, commonly | 24 |
| Some salts in water, e.g. | 25 |
| What you're finding now | 27 |
| Puzzle solver's goal | 24 |
| Like an easy crossword puzzle | 29 |
| Like a well-edited puzzle | 25 |
| What you're trying to do | 28 |
| Successfully work a puzzle | 26 |
| Finish a crossword puzzle | 25 |
| Do what you're doing | 24 |
| Work a crossword puzzle | 23 |
| What you are trying to do | 25 |
| Tackle, as a crossword | 22 |
| Something you and Columbo do | 28 |
| Finish, as a crossword | 22 |
| Connect the dots, so to speak | 29 |
| Complete a crossword puzzle | 27 |
| Completely filled, say | 22 |
| Completed, as a crossword | 25 |
| Algebra problem directive | 25 |
| Good financial condition | 24 |
| Not in over one's head | 26 |
| Acetone and alcohol, e.g. | 25 |
| You, at this very moment | 24 |
| What you're doing now | 25 |
| Putting letters in boxes? | 25 |
| Kompong ___, Cambodian bay | 26 |
| Acronym-y Static-X song | 23 |
| Opposite of the psyche | 22 |
| East Indian milkweed juice | 26 |
| Drink used in Vedic rituals | 27 |
| Chicago recording studio | 24 |
| Body, as opposed to soul | 24 |
| Eastern African resident | 24 |
| Ethiopian's neighbor | 24 |
| Horn of Africa resident | 23 |
| Like many modern-day pirates | 28 |
| Mogadishu native, perhaps | 25 |
| Like some modern-day pirates | 28 |
| Like some modern pirates | 24 |
| Like many a modern pirate | 25 |
| Iman's nationality | 22 |
| Horn of Africa dweller | 22 |
| East African in the news | 24 |
| Dweller on the Gulf of Aden | 27 |
| Dweller along the Jubba River | 29 |
| Certain language of Ethiopia | 28 |
| African republic inhabitant | 27 |
| A people of east Africa | 23 |
| Nation on the Indian Ocean | 26 |
| Mogadishu is its capital | 24 |
| U.N. intervention site | 22 |
| Onetime U.N. effort site | 24 |
| Mogadishu's locale | 22 |
| Locale of 1990's fighting | 29 |
| Coastal African country | 23 |
| 1992 peacekeeping mission | 27 |
| 1990s peacekeeping site | 23 |
| 1990's civil war site | 25 |
| Flogging whip, in Mogadishu? | 28 |
| Horn of Africa natives | 22 |
| Neighbors of Ethiopians | 23 |
| Many modern-day pirates | 23 |
| Horn of Africa residents | 24 |
| Old intoxicating elixirs | 24 |
| East Indian leafless vines | 26 |
| Like many works in minor keys | 29 |
| Melancholy, British style | 25 |
| Funereal, in Folkestone | 23 |
| Speedy Gonzales' wear | 25 |
| Speedy Gonzales' headgear | 29 |
| South-of-the-border sunblock? | 29 |
| Shade maker for a siesta | 24 |
| Mexican millinery item | 22 |
| Mexican hat-dance item | 22 |
| Mariachi's headwear | 23 |
| Mariachi band's prop | 24 |
| Kahlúa and cream over ice | 28 |
| Focus of a Mexican dance | 24 |
| Broad-brimmed Mexican hat | 25 |