PENELOPE LIVELY, MOON TIGER — I have seen Cairo since..., but in my head was that... place, conjured up by the smell of dung and paraffin, the felt-shod tittuping sound of a donkey's hooves, kites... in a Wedgwood blue sky, the baroque gaiety of Arabic script.
| A. | Ruler whose title means "great house" | PHARAOH |
| B. | Utopian, like paradise | EDENIC |
| C. | Dane in Michael Frayn's play "Copenhagen" (2 wds.) | NIELSBOHR |
| D. | What the euro replaced in Portugal | ESCUDO |
| E. | Stupid Pet Tricks venue (2 wds.) | LATESHOW |
| F. | Newtonian work describing the corpuscular theory of light | OPTICKS |
| G. | Very venomous African viper (2 wds.) | PUFFADDER |
| H. | With Word I, beacon for sailors in the English Channel | EDDYSTONE |
| I. | See Clue H | LIGHTHOUSE |
| J. | Popular printer type (hyph.) | INKJET |
| K. | Keats's "amorous glow-worm of the sky" | VESPER |
| L. | Orbit in the skull (2 wds.) | EYESOCKET |
| M. | International company whose logo is a flying crane in a circle | LUFTHANSA |
| N. | Locale of Chichén Itzá, site of extensive pyramid ruins | YUCATAN |
| O. | Republican switching to Cleveland in 1884 | MUGWUMP |
| P. | Over the line, for a lineman | OFFSIDE |
| Q. | Verbal abuse; ill repute | OBLOQUY |
| R. | Legume used in soups and salads (2 wds.) | NAVYBEAN |
| S. | Largest moon of Uranus, named for a fairy | TITANIA |
| T. | W. C. Fields classic of 1934 (3 wds.) | ITSAGIFT |
| U. | "The jig is up!" | GOTCHA |
| V. | Viscountess Mountbatten of Burma | EDWINA |
| W. | Second prize emblem at a fair (2 wds.) | REDRIBBON |