| RUBYSLIPPERS | Terry Jon Martin, who stole this famed Wizard of Oz pair from a museum in 2005, was finally caught in 2018 and sentenced last week |
| MOAT | Bird that was finally caught in ditch |
| ALVA | The A. of a famed "wizard" |
| TOUR | Offering from a museum docent |
| SPIDERSOLITAIRE | Windows 98 card game that as of 2005 was the most played game on Windows PCs |
| SWANSEACITY | Football team whose home ground from 1912 to 2005 was Vetch Field (7,4) |
| CITRUS | 8 caught, I believe, without root (6) |
| CALAIS | Caught, I regret to say, imbibing one port |
| WOO | Caught, I hear, two ducks on Wednesday (3) |
| THESCREAM | On Aug. 22, 2004, masked gunmen stole this painting from Oslo's Munch Museum; it was recovered two years later |
| FIFTYMISSIONCAP | "___-___ ___": Tragically Hip tune with the line "I stole this from a hockey card..." |
| MASTS | Pair from a deck, maybe |
| NEWMANSEINFELD | *Antagonistic pair from a sitcom |
| THERESOLDSHOES | Pair from a pawnshop? |
| ROMANIA | Ceausescu was finally and bloodily removed from power in this nation in 1989 |
| ALEXANDER | Antonio Meucci was finally acknowledged by the US Congress in 2002 as the inventor of the telephone instead of ... Graham Bell |
| FLOJO | Moniker of former American sprinter whose world record set in the 1988 100m women's sprint event was finally broken in 2020 (3-2) |
| BUTCHER | Klaus Barbie, known as the ... of Lyons for his crimes against humanity in WWII France, was finally brought to justice in 1983 |
| SACHA | & 28D Picture E Who is this - famed for his characters, including Borat and Ali G? (5,5,5) |
| JONATHANWINTERS | This famed comic actor played the title characters' baby on Mork & Mindy; like all babies on Planet Ork, he was born full-grown |