| CLINTON | Bill, U.S. president who defeated George H.W. Bush in the 1992 election (7) |
| ROSSPEROT | This billionaire, who passed away July 9, got 19 percent of the national vote in the 1992 election |
| DUKAKIS | Michael, American politician defeated by George Bush in the 1988 presidential election (7) |
| COLEMAN | Which RTE reporter ruffled some feathers with her interview of US President George W Bush in 2004? (7) |
| JOHNSON | U.S. president who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2 |
| ANNRICHARDS | Texas governor in the 1990s who preceded George W. Bush in that position: 2 wds. |
| GATES | Bill, U.S. business magnate who co-founded Microsoft in 1975 (5) |
| RICHARDNIXON | 37th U.S. president who was the first to visit mainland China while in office in 1972 (7,5) |
| WOODROWWILSON | U.S. president who won in 1919 for his role in setting up the League of Nations (7,6) |
| BUTCHIEFLYYOURSELVES | The end of Leonard Sachs's introduction to the final chorus of The Old Bull and Bush in The Good Old Days |
| MURRAY | Bill, U.S. actor whose films include Lost In Translation and Ghostbusters (6) |
| EVANS | Bill, U.S. jazz pianist who played on Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind Of Blue (5) |
| ROOSEVELT | U.S. president who won the Prize in 1906 for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese war (surname only) |
| POLK | James K, U.S. President who led the country in the Mexican-American War (4) |
| TRUMAN | Harry S. , U.S. president who ordered the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski in 1945 (6) |
| HARRISON | William Henry, ninth U.S. president who served one month in 1841, the shortest term in office (8) |
| GORE | Former Vice-President who defeated Yankovic in an Al-versus-Al segment of the animated show "Celebrity Deathmatch" |
| BRYSON | Bill, U.S. travel and science writer noted for his 1995 book Notes from a Small Island (6) |
| OBAMA | U.S. president who was also president of the Harvard Law Review |
| ADAMS | John, second U.S. president who succeeded George Washington in 1797 (5) |
