| MITTS | Romney & others |
| CEOS | Mitt Romney and others, once |
| CINQUE | And 20. Hastings. Sandwich, Dover, New Romney and Hythe (6,5) |
| MBAS | Degs. held by Romney and Bush |
| CINQUEPORTS | Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Romney and Sandwich |
| JDS | Romney and Obama, professionally |
| MBA | Univ. degree for Romney and Bloomberg |
| UTAHNS | Mitt Romney and Robert Redford, for two |
| ANNS | Romney and Richards |
| PORT | Town with a harbour such as any of the original five. or "cinque" medieval examples - Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Romney and Sandwich (4) |
| DYMCHURCH | Kent town with Romney and Hythe giving name to narrow gauge light railway (8) |
| PORTS | Hastings. Sandwich, Dover, New Romney and Hythe (6.5) |
| HYTHE | Romney, ----- & Dymchurch narrow gauge steam railway opened in 1927 (5) |
| OBAMA | He beat Mccain and Romney |
| EXPORTS | Foreign currency earners from Sandwich and New Romney? |
| LYDD | Romney Marsh town and 3-lake fishery complex (4) |
| WAVYGRAVY | Entertainer and peace activist, born Hugh Nanton Romney, who is the "official clown" of the Grateful Dead |
| EDWARDS | Author who wrote the Romney Marsh and the Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels (7) |
| LEHRER | Moderator of the first Obama/McCain and Obama/Romney debates |
| EMMA | Preferred forename of Amy Lyon, a blacksmith's daughter who became Lady Hamilton, lover of Lord Nelson and muse of George Romney (4) |
