| Military abbr. | 14 |
| Abbr. for a president | 21 |
| POTUS's alternate title | 27 |
| POTUS, to the military | 22 |
| U.S. Pres., militarily | 22 |
| Top military rank: Abbr. | 24 |
| Title for the Pres. | 19 |
| Title for R.W.R. | 16 |
| Title for a U.S. Pres. | 22 |
| President's mil. title | 26 |
| President, briefly | 18 |
| Pres. Bush title | 16 |
| One of R.W.R.'s titles | 26 |
| One of Carter's titles: Abbr. | 33 |
| One of Carter's jobs: Abbr. | 31 |
| Obama's mil. title | 22 |
| Obama, as of Jan. 2009 | 22 |
| Military leader: Abbr. | 22 |
| Mil. slang for the president | 28 |
| Mil. role for the president | 27 |
| High mil. office | 16 |
| George W. Bush, now: Abbr. | 26 |
| G.W. was one | 12 |
| Armed Forces VIP | 16 |
| Abbr. that denotes "U.S. president" | 45 |
| Abbr. akin to POTUS | 19 |
| Tight waistband | 15 |
| Fastened a saddle | 17 |
| Tightens | 8 |
| They're easy | 16 |
| They're duck soup | 21 |
| Â Â Pieces of cake | 24 |
| Quinine-supplying tree | 22 |
| Bark yielding quinine | 21 |
| Midwestern jewelry article? | 27 |
| Football team whose members wear stiff bracelets? | 49 |
| Who cut Affleck? | 16 |
| Ohio feline? | 12 |
| Ohio city after a cleanup? | 26 |
| Rose buds? | 10 |
| Parent team of the Louisville Bats | 34 |
| Remnants in Ohio? | 17 |
| Grant's horse's team? | 29 |
| Reds | 4 |
| City kids from the Buckeye State? | 33 |
| Remnant of a burned coal | 24 |
| Windy-day eye hazard | 20 |
| Track covering | 14 |
| Sign of fire | 12 |
| Residue of combustion | 21 |
| Makeup of some blocks | 21 |
| Fireplace ash | 13 |
| Fiery fleck | 11 |
| Building block of a building block | 34 |
| Basic building unit | 19 |
| Ash fragment | 12 |
| Masonry unit | 12 |
| Concrete wall segment | 21 |
| Building unit / Set-off chunks of text | 38 |
| Volcanic vent surrounders | 25 |
| Lucky girls | 11 |
| Surprise champions, like the 1969 Mets | 38 |
| Sentimental favorites in tournaments, often | 43 |
| Jerry Lewis movie: 1960 | 23 |
| 1960 Jerry Lewis fairy tale spoof | 33 |
| 1994 Catherine Zeta-Jones film (with "The") | 53 |
| Grate remainder | 15 |
| Ella of comics | 14 |
| What the intruder accidentally left behind | 42 |
| Running track material | 22 |
| Fragments from fires | 20 |
| Like a well-used fireplace | 26 |
| Full of soot | 12 |
| Ashlike | 7 |
| President Bush's hometown after a fire? | 43 |
| The youngest Brady girl | 23 |
| Youngest of the Brady girls | 27 |
| Williams of "Laverne and Shirley" | 43 |
| Supermodel Crawford who's seen on infomercials | 50 |
| Supermodel Crawford | 19 |
| Shirley of "Laverne and Shirley" | 42 |
| Iraq war protester Sheehan | 26 |
| Longtime New York Post gossip columnist | 39 |
| Crawford cudgels? | 17 |
| Dr. Seuss character voiced on TV by June Foray | 46 |
| Moviemaker | 10 |
| Movie buff: Var. | 16 |
| Film buff (Var.) | 16 |
| Film aficionado (var.) | 22 |
| Art house habitué | 20 |
| Movie buff | 10 |
| Film fan | 8 |
| Filmmaker | 9 |
| Film buff | 9 |
| Irish tribe | 11 |
| Daffy Duck? | 11 |
| Movie-related | 13 |
| Fit for the big screen | 22 |
| Like Hollywood | 14 |
| Motion-picture theater, to a Londoner | 37 |