| U.S. composer who's on his toes? | 36 |
| U.S. composer: 1874-1954 | 24 |
| U.S. composer: 1874–1954 | 31 |
| U.S. composer: 1896-1985 | 24 |
| U.S. composer: 1898–1937 | 31 |
| U.S. conductor-composer | 23 |
| U.S. conquest of 1943 | 21 |
| U.S. Constitution inspirer John | 31 |
| U.S. Constitution mo. | 21 |
| U.S. Constitution's first article | 37 |
| U.S. consumer protection agcy. | 30 |
| U.S. coppers | 12 |
| U.S. corp. with a lot of power? | 31 |
| U.S. cosmetics overseer | 23 |
| U.S. counterpart of Action Man | 30 |
| U.S. court legend | 17 |
| U.S. court star | 15 |
| U.S. court V.I.P. | 17 |
| U.S. cousin of the BBC | 22 |
| U.S. crime fighter | 18 |
| U.S. crime fighters | 19 |
| U.S. crime solvers | 18 |
| U.S. critic-poet: 1899-1979 | 27 |
| U.S. currency | 13 |
| U.S. currency: Abbr. | 20 |
| U.S. dam complex | 16 |
| U.S. dance company | 18 |
| U.S. dance grp. | 15 |
| U.S. dancer | 11 |
| U.S. Davis Cup captain | 22 |
| U.S. defenders | 14 |
| U.S. defense line | 17 |
| U.S. defense strategizer | 24 |
| U.S. defense weapon | 19 |
| U.S. defensive midfielder ejected in the semis of the 2007 Women's World Cup | 80 |
| U.S. department | 15 |
| U.S. Department of Justice org. | 31 |
| U.S. dept. | 10 |
| U.S. dept. concerned with meat inspection | 41 |
| U.S. dept. concerned with radioactive waste | 43 |
| U.S. Dept. of Justice raiders | 29 |
| U.S. dept. with a lightning bolt on its seal | 44 |
| U.S. dept. with a Race to the Top reform prog. | 46 |
| U.S. dept. with a sun on its seal | 33 |
| U.S. dept. with a windmill on its seal | 38 |
| U.S. desert sight | 17 |
| U.S. designer | 13 |
| U.S. diplomat Silas | 19 |
| U.S. diplomat W. __ Harriman | 28 |
| U.S. disaster group | 19 |
| U.S. disaster relief org. | 25 |
| U.S. disease-prevention org. | 28 |
| U.S. document issuer | 20 |
| U.S. document publisher | 23 |
| U.S. doubles co-champ: 1976 | 27 |
| U.S. draft agcy. | 16 |
| U.S. draft director | 19 |
| U.S. draft program | 18 |
| U.S. drama critic | 17 |
| U.S. dramatist | 14 |
| U.S. dress designer | 19 |
| U.S. drug safety org. | 21 |
| U.S. druggists' org. | 24 |
| U.S. duck | 9 |
| U.S. eavesdropping org. | 23 |
| U.S. econ. figure | 17 |
| U.S. econ. indicator, once | 26 |
| U.S. econ. stat | 15 |
| U.S. economic indicator: Abbr. | 30 |
| U.S. economic yardstick | 23 |
| U.S. economy gauge | 18 |
| U.S. editor | 11 |
| U.S. editor Max | 15 |
| U.S. editor-publisher | 21 |
| U.S. editor: 1863–1930 | 29 |
| U.S. educator | 13 |
| U.S. Election Day, e.g.: Abbr. | 30 |
| U.S. election mo. | 17 |
| U.S. election routine | 21 |
| U.S. electrical genius | 22 |
| U.S. electrical pioneer | 23 |
| U.S. electrical scientist: 1850–1936 | 43 |
| U.S. electrician and inventor | 29 |
| U.S. emblem | 11 |
| U.S. emissions controller | 25 |
| U.S. energy complex | 19 |
| U.S. enforcer | 13 |
| U.S. engineer | 13 |
| U.S. engineer: 1820–87 | 29 |
| U.S. enlistees | 14 |
| U.S. equivalent of Britain's MI6 | 36 |
| U.S. equivalent to the U.K.'s Laurence Olivier Award | 56 |
| U.S. espionage gp. | 18 |
| U.S. espionage org. | 19 |
| U.S. essayist | 13 |
| U.S. expansionists' dream | 29 |
| U.S. explorer in space | 22 |
| U.S. export | 11 |
| U.S. facility in Cuba, for short | 32 |
| U.S. family of painters | 23 |