| Did some work as a char | 23 |
| Vacuum cleaner malfunction? | 27 |
| Brothel manager who likes to vacuum? | 36 |
| White House family | 18 |
| F.B.I. director's side of the story? | 40 |
| Certain home cleaning tool | 26 |
| Temporary town during the Depression | 36 |
| 1930s shantytown | 16 |
| Pig's feet | 14 |
| Feet of an ungulate mammal | 26 |
| Ungulate features | 17 |
| They may be shod | 16 |
| Smiths' concerns | 20 |
| Shoe sites | 10 |
| Reindeer tootsies | 17 |
| Porky Pig's trotters | 24 |
| Places for horseshoes | 21 |
| Minotaur feet | 13 |
| Four on the ground, maybe | 25 |
| Features of Pan | 15 |
| Devil's feet | 16 |
| Colt's clippety-cloppers | 28 |
| Certain shoe sites | 18 |
| Camel features | 14 |
| Limbo question | 14 |
| Military's online message service? | 38 |
| -- flight (go by plane) | 23 |
| -- flight (go by jet) | 21 |
| One way to get downtown | 23 |
| Not hoof it, perhaps | 20 |
| Hack it? | 8 |
| Get taken for a ride? | 21 |
| Don't leg it, maybe | 23 |
| Potato sack race, essentially? | 30 |
| ... for Western heroes? | 23 |
| Early TV Western hero | 21 |
| Silver screen cowboy | 20 |
| He rode atop Topper | 19 |
| First TV western series | 23 |
| Early TV western | 16 |
| Early TV good guy | 17 |
| Travel like an itinerant | 24 |
| Jewel at a 50's dance? | 26 |
| Memories of a high school dance? | 32 |
| Pair of jokers | 14 |
| Wish earnestly, to a donkey? | 28 |
| Desire greatly (with ''for'') | 45 |
| Be sympathetically nosy? | 24 |
| Mike Huckabee's hometown | 28 |
| Trousseau holder | 16 |
| Bridal cache | 12 |
| Trousseau container | 19 |
| Marriage bureau | 15 |
| Layaway plan of a sort | 22 |
| Quaint storage pieces | 21 |
| Optimists' storage boxes | 28 |
| Items for optimistic girls | 26 |
| Bob's repositories? | 23 |
| Desired | 7 |
| Dreamed of | 10 |
| Movie about a boy's Presidential aspirations? | 49 |
| 1998 Sandra Bullock film | 24 |
| What the boxers and fans now do | 31 |
| What losers of title bouts do | 29 |
| Haiti earthquake relief album | 29 |
| Utopian, say | 12 |
| One who aspires | 15 |
| In a promising way | 18 |
| The sun peeking through the clouds, to some | 43 |
| Peking's province | 21 |
| Province in NE China, old style | 31 |
| Chinese province, formerly | 26 |
| China's Hebei province, old style | 37 |
| Tientsin's province | 23 |
| Despairing | 10 |
| Nonviable | 9 |
| Like a lost cause | 17 |
| Inspiring prayers to Saint Jude, perhaps | 40 |
| Goal that never gets off the ground | 35 |
| Colossal waste of time | 22 |
| It's a waste of time | 24 |
| "That would suck" | 27 |
| "I should ___!" | 25 |
| "Heaven forbid" | 25 |
| Aspirant | 8 |
| Wishful one | 11 |
| Optimistic sort | 15 |
| Optimist | 8 |
| One with fingers crossed | 24 |
| One with expectations | 21 |
| No-___ (something useless) | 26 |
| Expectant person | 16 |
| Expectant one | 13 |
| Optimists | 9 |
| Optimistic types | 16 |
| Dreams of | 9 |
| Aspires to | 10 |
| Perennial G. I. treat | 21 |
| Sorta positive wish | 19 |
| Slangy comment of optimism | 26 |