| First president with a Twitter account | 38 |
| "Dreams from My Father" author | 40 |
| Time's 2012 Person of the Year | 34 |
| "Dreams From My Father" writer | 40 |
| Two-time Best Spoken Word Album Grammy winner | 45 |
| Time's Person of the Year 2008 | 34 |
| Time's Man of the Year for 2008 | 35 |
| Time's 2008 Person of the Year | 34 |
| Surname in 2008 political headlines | 35 |
| Recent guest on "Between Two Ferns" | 45 |
| Presidential candidate born in Hawaii | 37 |
| President with a B.A. from Columbia | 35 |
| President whose initials "stink" | 42 |
| President who won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize | 44 |
| President sworn in on Lincoln's Bible | 41 |
| President born furthest from D.C. | 33 |
| Politico with the slogan "Forward" | 44 |
| Only U.S. president born in Hawaii | 34 |
| Only Indonesian-speaking President | 34 |
| One of two presidents with two Ivy League degrees | 49 |
| One code-named Renegade by the Secret Service | 45 |
| Name above Biden on bumper stickers | 35 |
| Michelle Robinson's marital surname | 39 |
| Junior Illinois senator Barack __ | 33 |
| Illinois senator-turned-president | 33 |
| Illinois senator who became president | 37 |
| His mom's first name was Stanley | 36 |
| His high school clique was the Choom Gang | 41 |
| He serves the same state as Senator Durbin | 42 |
| He really, really wasn't born in Kenya, yeesh | 49 |
| First president not born in the continental U.S. | 48 |
| First president born outside the continental U.S. | 49 |
| Author of "The Audacity of Hope" | 42 |
| Author of "Dreams From My Father" | 43 |
| 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient | 32 |
| 2008 "Yes We Can" sloganeer | 37 |
| 2004 Democratic convention keynoter | 35 |
| "Yes we can" sloganeer | 32 |
| "Time" Person of the Year for 2012 | 44 |
| "Dreams of My Father" memoirist | 41 |
| "Dreams From My Father" novelist | 42 |
| 'Dreams From My Father' writer | 38 |
| ''Dreams From My Father'' author | 48 |
| Award bestowed by The Queen, for short | 38 |
| Honour given to Joan Collins: Abbr. | 35 |
| Honour given to J. K. Rowling: Abbr. | 36 |
| Honour bestowed by Queen Elizabeth: Abbr. | 41 |
| Honor for Harry Potter's creator: Abbr. | 43 |
| Award bestowed to Jimmy Page in 2005: Abbr. | 43 |
| Award bestowed by a queen: Abbr. | 32 |
| 2007 honor for Hugh Laurie: Abbr. | 33 |
| "___ some other name": Juliet | 39 |
| "___ some other name!": Juliet | 40 |
| Sorcery practiced in the West Indies | 36 |
| Magic practiced by native Guianans | 34 |
| African belief in sorcery and magic | 35 |
| Where you might tell a friend to stay? | 38 |
| Place for man's best friend, sometimes | 42 |
| "Divided by" symbols (BE OIL anagram) | 47 |
| Symbols used in ancient manuscripts | 35 |
| Symbols resembling division signs | 33 |
| Manuscript marks noting possible errors | 39 |
| Editorial marks on old manuscripts | 34 |
| The Washington Monument, for one | 32 |
| High point of Egyptian architecture? | 36 |
| Central feature of St. Peter's Square | 41 |
| Where John Heisman first coached football | 41 |
| College that pioneered in coeducation | 37 |
| Ohio college attended by Karen O and Liz Phair | 46 |
| First U.S. college to give degrees to women | 43 |
| First U.S. college to award degrees to women | 44 |
| College that was a center of abolitionism | 41 |
| "My gentle Puck, come hither" speaker | 47 |
| "A Midsummer Night's Dream" king | 46 |
| William Herschel discovery of 1787 | 34 |
| Shakespearean king of the fairies | 33 |
| Shakespeare's king of the fairies | 37 |
| Shakespeare character with a magic aphrodisiac | 46 |
| Sand in "A Song to Remember": 1945 | 44 |
| King of the fairies, in Shakespeare | 35 |
| King of the fairies, in folklore | 32 |
| Awards for J. K. Rowling and P. L. Travers: Abbr. | 49 |
| Like contestants on "The Biggest Loser" | 49 |
| Qualifying for sumo wrestling, e.g. | 35 |
| Needing a seat belt extender, say | 33 |
| Like some intestinal bypass patients | 36 |
| Having a body mass index of 30 or more | 38 |
| Eligible for "The Biggest Loser" | 42 |
| Word from the Latin for "devour" | 42 |
| Way too big for one's britches, say | 39 |
| Way too big for one's britches | 34 |
| Struggling with middle management? | 34 |
| Really moving the needle, in a way | 34 |
| Packing a lot of extra baggage, so to speak | 43 |
| Much too big for one's britches? | 36 |
| Much too big for one's britches | 35 |
| Literally, "eaten away" | 33 |
| Like some with sedentary lifestyles | 35 |
| Like some targets of weightists' biases | 43 |
| Like some people with elevated BMI | 34 |