| Scooter in the White House | 26 |
| Big name in vegetables | 22 |
| Media lawyer's concern | 26 |
| Media lawyer's subject | 26 |
| Character assassination | 23 |
| Tabloid lawyer's worry | 26 |
| Slander's counterpart | 25 |
| Reason to sue a publisher | 25 |
| Publisher's booboo | 22 |
| It concerns write wrongs? | 25 |
| Freedom-of-speech limit | 23 |
| Defamation suit defendant | 25 |
| Defendant, in admiralty law | 27 |
| Defendant in a law case | 23 |
| Attorney's specialty | 24 |
| Tabloid publisher's check | 29 |
| Protection against smearing | 27 |
| Protection against slander | 26 |
| Muckraker's concern | 23 |
| Risks a lawsuit, in a way | 25 |
| Book of public records | 22 |
| Oldest republic in Africa | 25 |
| Africa's oldest republic | 28 |
| President Doe's land | 24 |
| Its capital is Monrovia | 23 |
| Symbol on an old quarter | 24 |
| Sailor's shore leave | 24 |
| Henry's goal: 1775 | 22 |
| 1840s abolitionist group | 24 |
| Psychic energy, to Freud | 24 |
| Desires derived from the id | 27 |
| A wolf has a strong one | 23 |
| The Scales of the zodiac | 24 |
| Astrologer's scales | 23 |
| Seventh sign of the zodiac | 26 |
| Only inanimate zodiac sign | 26 |
| The Scales, to astrologers | 26 |
| The Scales, astrologically | 26 |
| Zodiac's seventh sign | 25 |
| Zodiac sign with scales | 23 |
| Zodiac sign of the scales | 25 |
| Zodiac sign of the scale | 24 |
| Sept. 23–Oct. 22 baby | 28 |
| Person born on Oct. 3, e.g. | 27 |
| One of the cardinal signs | 25 |
| Constellation of scales | 23 |
| Between Virgo and Scorpio | 25 |
| 1988 Don DeLillo novel | 22 |
| "The Balance" | 23 |
| They work around stacks | 23 |
| Reference-desk workers | 22 |
| Thing that often has branches | 29 |
| Congress has the largest one | 28 |
| A "fine" place? | 25 |
| People born on Sept. 29, e.g. | 29 |
| Many babies born in fall | 24 |
| Eisenhower, Carter et al. | 25 |
| "Balanced" people? | 28 |
| It's free in Paris | 22 |
| Cuba ___ (rum cocktail) | 23 |
| Books of public records | 23 |
| Country on the Mediterranean | 28 |
| Chad's northern neighbor | 28 |
| Muammar al-Qaddafi's land | 29 |
| Its flag is solid green | 23 |
| Tunisia's neighbor | 22 |
| Tripoli is its capital | 22 |
| Muammar el-Qaddafi's land | 29 |
| 2011 civil war setting | 22 |
| Like some of the Sahara | 23 |
| Egyptian's neighbor | 23 |
| Driver's document: Abbr. | 28 |
| Driver's need: Abbr. | 24 |
| Driver's ID: Abbr. | 22 |
| Photo ID in most states | 23 |
| Organ donor's card: Abbr. | 29 |
| Need to get hitched: Abbr. | 26 |
| N.R.A. member's need | 24 |
| M.D.'s requirement | 22 |
| Item at a motor vehicle agcy. | 29 |
| Hunter's need: Abbr. | 24 |
| Driver's permit: Abbr. | 26 |
| Driver's ID, for short | 26 |
| Driver's ID (Abbr.) | 23 |
| They cause head scratching | 26 |
| One of the Ten Plagues | 22 |
| Children's head pests | 25 |
| Cause of some head-scratching | 29 |
| Nitpicker's target | 22 |
| Fumigation targets, sometimes | 29 |
| Cause of some head scratching | 29 |
| Wingless blood-suckers | 22 |
| They cause head-scratching? | 27 |
| Target of a head hunter | 23 |
| Pediculicide's target | 25 |
| Head hunters' targets | 25 |
| Grade-schooler's woe | 24 |
| Grade-school infestation | 24 |
| Certain shampoo target | 22 |
| Poet's prerogative | 22 |