| DNASAMPLE | Crime lab specimen, and a part of 17-, 28- and 47-Across |
| LOWHANGINGFRUIT | "That was easy", and a hint to the first part of 17, 28, and 48 across |
| CULTURESHOCK | Unsettling experience involving lab specimens and wine (7,5) |
| CHIPMUNKS | Singing group suggested by the first parts of 17-, 28- and 50-Across, with "the" |
| DNA | Crime lab specimen |
| SPOILS | Messes up uneven bank's of specimens and soils (6) |
| AMERICAN | Gray as a part of 17 down, say, whose unfinished elegy criminal pans out (8,8) |
| DETACHMENT | Takeaway workers find bone in a part of 17 down (10) |
| JUTLAND | Which peninsula in northern Europe forms a part of Denmark and a part of Germany? (7) |
| NOIDA | A satellite city of Delhi and a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) |
| CHAP | Cove between last part of beach and a part of port (4) |
| RIVIERA | Perhaps the Po floods Italy and a part of coastal France |
| CORNEA | Operation ultimately accessing heart and a part of the eye (6) |
| ATLANTA | Georgia's capital and a part of Australia found in abridged atlas (7) |
| CHAINCHAINCHAIN | Part of an Aretha Franklin refrain about fools ... and a hint to the ends of 17-, 28-and 47-Across |
| MATCHMAKERS | Facilitators of love connections, and a hint to the first words of 17-, 28- and 47-Across |
| ANS | Q and A part: Abbr. |
| CULTURE | The arts of growing lab specimen? (7) |
| SIXWEEKS | Possible groundhog-predicted extension of winter, and what 17-, 28-, and 47-Across represent |
| NOTORIOUS | Renowned, or a word associated with the starting sounds of 17-, 28- and 47-Across |
