| North Dakota or South Dakota | 28 |
| New York or Washington | 22 |
| New York or New Jersey, but not New England | 43 |
| New South Wales, for one | 24 |
| New Jersey, e.g. | 16 |
| Mysore, for one | 15 |
| Muskie's Department | 23 |
| Montana | 7 |
| Mode of being | 13 |
| Miss America contestant's designation | 41 |
| Misery or Missouri | 18 |
| Member of a very large union | 28 |
| Member of a quadrennial convention | 34 |
| Maryland or Hawaii | 18 |
| Maine or Montana | 16 |
| Maine for one | 14 |
| Madeleine Albright's bailiwick, once | 40 |
| Kind of secret represented by each two-letter puzzle clue? | 58 |
| Kind of hood | 12 |
| Kind of craft | 13 |
| Kerry's department | 22 |
| Kansas, e.g. | 12 |
| It's represented by a star | 30 |
| It's called in a political convention roll call | 51 |
| It was Clinton's department | 31 |
| It can be altered | 17 |
| Iowa or Indiana | 15 |
| Hillary's department | 24 |
| Hillary Clinton's department | 32 |
| Hesse or Ohio | 13 |
| Hawaii, for one | 15 |
| Hawaii, e.g. | 12 |
| Gujarat, in India, is one | 25 |
| Governor's realm | 20 |
| Governor's bailiwick | 24 |
| Federation member | 17 |
| Fair or trooper | 15 |
| Each has two senators | 21 |
| Durango or Delaware | 19 |
| Dept. headed by Muskie | 22 |
| Dept. Haig quit | 15 |
| Department of ___ | 17 |
| Connecticut or Colorado | 23 |
| Condoleezza's department | 28 |
| Condi's cabinet post | 24 |
| Chihuahua in Mexico, e.g. | 25 |
| Big Brother, to Orwell | 22 |
| Belle and Sebastian "The ___ I Am In" | 47 |
| Bavaria or Saxony | 17 |
| Barbary or buffer follower | 26 |
| Association on a Miss America sash | 34 |
| Assam or Victoria | 17 |
| Assam or Orissa | 15 |
| Assam or Oaxaca | 15 |
| Arkansas or Utah | 16 |
| Any one of New England's six | 32 |
| Alabama or Kansas | 17 |
| Alabama or Alaska | 17 |
| A star stands for it on the flag | 32 |
| A star stands for it in America | 31 |
| "Garden ___" | 22 |
| "Empire ___ of Mind" | 30 |
| "808:88:98" techno group 808 ___ | 42 |
| ___ of bliss | 12 |
| ___ Department | 14 |
| __ visit | 8 |
| Government employee | 19 |
| Government grant of a sort | 26 |
| Like some public housing | 24 |
| Like some low-cost housing | 26 |
| Welfare, e.g. | 13 |
| Welfare checks, e.g. | 20 |
| Some student aid, e.g. | 22 |
| Some government checks | 22 |
| School district's examination | 33 |
| Exam administrator | 18 |
| Attorney regulator | 18 |
| With "association," legal group in Arkansas or Tennessee, for instance | 80 |
| It can be difficult to pass | 27 |
| Admission in court? | 19 |
| Cardinal vis-Ã -vis Illinois, Indiana or Ohio | 47 |
| Governor's goof? | 20 |
| Mason-Dixon line, e.g. | 22 |
| Wealth accrued in a government account? | 39 |
| Jackson or Lincoln, e.g. | 24 |
| Albany or Austin, e.g. | 22 |
| Madison and Lincoln, e.g. | 25 |
| Said with authority | 19 |
| Reported | 8 |
| Made explicit | 13 |
| In the open, as beliefs | 23 |
| Declared specifically | 21 |
| Averred | 7 |
| Bond issue? | 11 |
| Condoleeza Rice's domain | 28 |
| U.S. ambassador's employer | 30 |
| Thomas Jefferson was the first to lead it | 41 |
| Shultz's bailiwick | 22 |
| Say "bureau"? | 23 |
| John Kerry's domain | 23 |