| SANTAS | "Secret" figures hidden among the third, sixth, tenth, and thirteenth rows in this puzzle |
| WRITERSBLOCK | Problem for a wordsmith, and a clue to five figures hidden in this puzzle |
| WORLDSAPART | Very distant or different (and a hint to what's hidden among the Across answers, in their logical or |
| CATHARS | Christian religious sect in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (7) |
| SEINE | Boundary between Paris's Twelfth and Thirteenth Arrondissements |
| SERVED | Passed a figure hidden in reeds, perhaps (6) |
| TWO | Figure hidden by a modest woman |
| OVERTONE | Obvious figure, hidden meaning (8) |
| RAISETHEDEAD | Bring people back to life, and what you must do in four rows in this puzzle |
| ITSDISCONNECTED | "Check the plug!" (and a hint to solving four rows in this puzzle) |
| SEEDOUBLE | Have trouble focusing, and what you will do literally in two rows in this puzzle |
| OUTLIKEALAMB | End of a phrase about March that describes the fifth, eighth, and eleventh rows in this puzzle? |
| EXCHANGINGRINGS | Sharing in a symbol of commitment ... or what four rows in this puzzle are doing to form new phrases |
| FORESEES | Anticipates announcement of what across rows in this puzzle contain (8) |
| COVERYOUREYES | Warning before a gory movie scene ... or a phonetic hint to answering four rows in this puzzle |
| HENRYHIGGINS | Professor initially appearing twice in a row in this puzzle (5,7) |
| NOAH | The tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs in the Old Testament |
| VAGUS | Tenth and longest of the cranial nerves, supplying the heart, lungs and upper digestive tract (5) |
| IDES | The 15th day of four months and 13th day of the others in the Roman calendar |
| VACLAVHAVEL | Czech playwright, essayist, dissident and politician who was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia |
