| River on the Benin border | 25 |
| River near Timbuktu | 19 |
| River in W Africa | 17 |
| River in Mali | 13 |
| Niamey's river | 18 |
| Niamey's nation | 19 |
| Niamey's land | 17 |
| Niamey's country | 20 |
| Neighbor of Mali | 16 |
| Long African waterway | 21 |
| Landlocked nation of West Africa | 32 |
| Land that's more than 90% desert | 36 |
| Land on Lake Chad | 17 |
| Land by Lake Chad | 17 |
| Francophone land | 16 |
| Country west of Chad | 20 |
| Bamako's river | 18 |
| A kind of seed | 14 |
| Most populous African country | 29 |
| Benin neighbor | 14 |
| Where to spend naira | 20 |
| Where nairas are spent | 22 |
| Only member of both OPEC and the British Commonwealth | 53 |
| Nation whose capital is Abuja | 29 |
| Lagos's land | 16 |
| Lagos locale | 12 |
| Lagos is its capital | 20 |
| Its capital is Lagos | 20 |
| Its capital is Abuja | 20 |
| Home of Literature Nobelist Wole Soyinka | 40 |
| Home of Lagos | 13 |
| Gulf of Guinea country | 22 |
| African member of OPEC | 22 |
| Africa's most populous country | 34 |
| Abuja's land | 16 |
| Abuja's country | 19 |
| A neighbor of Cameroon | 22 |
| Regime in Niamey? | 17 |
| African president's tenure? | 31 |
| Penny-pinch | 11 |
| Be finicky | 10 |
| Criticize in a petty way | 24 |
| Trifle with | 11 |
| Pettifog | 8 |
| Carp pettily | 12 |
| Near, quaintly | 14 |
| Near, poetically | 16 |
| Near, to a poet | 15 |
| Near, in poesy | 14 |
| Near in time or space | 21 |
| Looming | 7 |
| At hand, in verse | 17 |
| Soon to happen | 14 |
| Near in time or place | 21 |
| In propinquity | 14 |
| Close by, in verse | 18 |
| Anear | 5 |
| Almost, in poems | 16 |
| "My end draws ___, 'tis time . . . " | 50 |
| "And stay by my cradle till morning is ___" | 53 |
| Popular Christmas carol | 23 |
| Sack time | 9 |
| Time to retire | 14 |
| Dracula's time | 18 |
| Star's time to shine? | 25 |
| Kind of court or school | 23 |
| From dusk to dawn | 17 |
| Dusk to dawn | 12 |
| Dark hours | 10 |
| Word with club or stick | 23 |
| When to see stars | 17 |
| When most dreams occur | 22 |
| Usual bedtime | 13 |
| Sleep time | 10 |
| One of seven in a week | 22 |
| It falls quite predictably | 26 |
| It falls but never breaks | 25 |
| Dusk-to-dawn period | 19 |
| Dracula's uptime | 20 |
| Dracula's favorite time | 27 |
| Dark period | 11 |
| Busy time for fireflies | 23 |
| Astronomer's prime time | 27 |
| "'Twas the ___ before Christmas ..." | 50 |
| Word with cap and gown | 22 |
| Word before club or stick | 25 |
| Word 4 of a Christmas classic | 29 |
| Word 2 of a Christmasclassic | 28 |
| Wiesel work | 11 |
| Wiesel memoir | 13 |
| When most people retire | 23 |
| When many people retire | 23 |
| When horror movie scenes are generally set | 42 |
| When bats fly | 13 |
| Time to sleep | 13 |
| Time for vampires | 17 |
| Time for some shifts | 20 |
| Time for fireworks | 18 |
| Time for a tuck | 15 |
| This has "a thousand eyes" | 36 |