| SPRINGTHAW | You can swim in a 12-Across, after this event (2 wds.) |
| HEATED | Pool you can swim in all winter (6) |
| JORDYN | With 25-Across: ex-(?)friend of 12-Across after their 2019 falling-out; the Elle piece mentions that they recently hung out together, however |
| PEARLHARBOR | 61-Across's first stay with 28-Across began just two weeks after this event |
| SIT | What you do in a 12-Across |
| LAD | Any young boy in a 12-Across |
| DOLPHIN | Aquatic mammal you can swim with in Florida (7) |
| BACKWARDS | Eels can swim in this reverse direction (9) |
| BOAT | You can swim from it |
| NERVES | Ducks feet have no ___ or blood vessels which helps them to not feel the cold, so that they can swim in icy water and walk on snow. |
| RAYS | Sunbeams; or, fishes in a class with skates and sharks that swim in a school known as a fever (4) |
| PEARTREE | "And a partridge in a ... ..." (12 Days of Christmas) (4,4) |
| EXPRESSIONIST | Took a snapshot of the Liffey swim, in a manner of speaking, first (13) |
| LOOP | Chicago area where you might swim in a reverse direction (4) |
| ADMITTANCE | Insert hand in a 12 to gain access (10) |
| ALI | Rue's sponsor in a 12-step program, on "Euphoria" |
| DEC | Last page in a 12-month calendar: Abbr. |
| TWELVE | Number of objects in a dozen, sides of a dodecagon or labours of Hercules (6) |
| SEAHORSE | With a complex courtship ritual, a marine fish that swims in a upright position, genus Hippocampus (3,5) |
| TIDE | The Outlaws might swim in a high one |
