Possible Clues:

• Europeans dressed up in lederhosen, a disaster
• Most ''Hamlet'' characters
• Scandinavians born in a backward miserable setting
• Race to move centre of range to its top
• Some Scandinavians
• Victor Borge and Niels Bohr, for two
• Great ___ (big dogs)
• Great ___ (large dogs)
• Some Sudanese people found in Scandinavia
• "Homeland" Emmy winner Claire