| Sun Yat- --- | 12 |
| Steppingstone to pres., maybe | 29 |
| Statehouse worker: Abbr. | 24 |
| State's rep. | 16 |
| State rep. | 10 |
| Southeast Asian coin | 20 |
| Something D.C. does not have | 28 |
| Snowe or Breaux: Abbr. | 22 |
| Small Japanese coin | 19 |
| Six-yr. V.I.P. | 14 |
| Six-year VIP | 12 |
| Short for Long: 1931-35 | 23 |
| Sessions, e.g.: Abbr. | 21 |
| Sessions in D.C., say | 21 |
| Seat holder: Abbr. | 18 |
| Scott Brown, e.g. | 17 |
| Schumer's title: Abbr. | 26 |
| Robert Byrd, for 50 years: Abbr. | 32 |
| Riel part | 9 |
| Riel fraction | 13 |
| RFK, for three-plus yrs. | 24 |
| Reid or Frist (abbr.) | 21 |
| Rand Paul, e.g., for short | 26 |
| R.I.'s Sheldon Whitehouse, e.g. | 35 |
| Pryor of Arkansas, e.g. (abbr.) | 31 |
| President pro tempore, for one: Abbr. | 37 |
| Pres. hopeful, often | 20 |
| Pol with a six-yr. post | 23 |
| Pol with a 6-year term | 22 |
| Pol whose term lasts six yrs. | 29 |
| Place for E.M.K. | 16 |
| Pitcher Walter Johnson, e.g.: Abbr. | 35 |
| Person in a chamber: Abbr. | 26 |
| Person going into a house?: Abbr. | 33 |
| Paul Wellstone was one: abbr. | 29 |
| Part of a riel | 14 |
| Orrin Hatch, for one (abbr.) | 28 |
| One with an office on Constitution Ave. | 39 |
| One with a six-yr. position | 27 |
| One with a 72-mo. term | 22 |
| One with a 6-yr. term | 21 |
| One who confirms SCOTUS members | 31 |
| One out of a hundred: abbr. | 27 |
| One of a state's two, for short | 35 |
| One of a hundred, for short | 27 |
| One of a DC 100 | 15 |
| One of a Capitol Hill 100: Abbr. | 32 |
| One of 100 on Capitol Hill: Abbr. | 33 |
| One of 100 members of Cong. | 27 |
| One of 100 in the U.S. govt. | 28 |
| One may be junior or senior, in D.C.: Abbr. | 43 |
| One in it for the long term?: Abbr. | 35 |
| One in an upper chamber: Abbr. | 30 |
| One in a hundred, in D.C. | 25 |
| Olympia Snowe, for one: abbr. | 29 |
| Obama's title before Pres. | 30 |
| Obama, once: Abbr. | 18 |
| Obama, Biden or McCain (but not Palin), in 2008: Abbr. | 54 |
| Obama, before he was pres. | 26 |
| Obama or Clinton: abbr. | 23 |
| Obama or Clinton, previously: Abbr. | 35 |
| Obama (D-IL), e.g. | 18 |
| Nixon, e.g., for two yrs. | 25 |
| Nippon cent | 11 |
| Mr. Smith who went to Wash., e.g. | 33 |
| Moynihan or D'Amato from N.Y. | 33 |
| Moynihan e.g. for short | 25 |
| Monetary unit of Indonesia | 26 |
| Mitch McConnell, e.g. | 21 |
| Mikulski or Murkowski: Abbr. | 28 |
| Member of the upper house: Abbr. | 32 |
| Member of Canada's Upper House (Abbr.) | 42 |
| McConnell or McCain: Abbr. | 26 |
| McCain, e.g.: Abbr. | 19 |
| McCain or McConnell: Abbr. | 26 |
| McCain is one: Abbr. | 20 |
| Markey or Warren (abbr.) | 24 |
| Marco Rubio, e.g.: Abbr. | 24 |
| Man in Wash. | 12 |
| Malaysian money unit | 20 |
| M. Kirby or F. MacDonald | 24 |
| Longtime columnist for The Nation | 33 |
| Little used Japanese money | 26 |
| Legislator in D.C. | 18 |
| Legis. title | 12 |
| Leg. title | 10 |
| Leg. house member | 17 |
| L.B.J. in the 50's | 22 |
| Kerry or Edwards, e.g.: Abbr. | 29 |
| Kennedy, Lincoln, or Clinton: abbr. | 35 |
| Kennedy is one: Abbr. | 21 |
| Jr.'s elder | 15 |
| John McCain, e.g.: Abbr. | 24 |
| Jim Inhofe, e.g. | 16 |
| JFK, once | 9 |
| JFK once, but not FDR | 21 |
| JFK in '57 | 14 |
| Javits or Glenn: Abbr. | 22 |
| Japanese monetary subunit | 25 |
| Japanese currency unit | 22 |