| General wannabe | 15 |
| General starting point? | 23 |
| General starting off point? | 27 |
| Future cop | 10 |
| Eisenhower: 1911–15 | 26 |
| Cop-to-be | 9 |
| Army rooter | 11 |
| Army athlete | 12 |
| Armed-forces trainee | 20 |
| Training group | 14 |
| Military youth group | 20 |
| West Pointers | 13 |
| West Point students | 19 |
| Future officers | 15 |
| Academy attendees | 17 |
| Budding officers | 16 |
| Youngest sons | 13 |
| Younger sons | 12 |
| Ones getting marching orders | 28 |
| Military-school students | 24 |
| Military trainees | 17 |
| Midshipmen's rivals | 23 |
| West Pointers, e.g. | 19 |
| West Point marchers | 19 |
| They take marching orders | 25 |
| Students at the U.S.M.A. | 24 |
| Starfleet Academy students | 26 |
| Plebes and doolies, e.g. | 24 |
| Ones getting their marching orders | 34 |
| Officers-to-be | 14 |
| Officers in training | 20 |
| Military students | 17 |
| Military school students | 24 |
| Midshipmen rivals | 17 |
| Members of the Black Knights | 28 |
| Fellow graduates with Gen. Benjamin Davis Jr.: 1936 | 51 |
| Corps groups | 12 |
| Corps group | 11 |
| "Brother Rat" group | 29 |
| Filch | 5 |
| Freeload | 8 |
| Put the bite on | 15 |
| Be a beggar | 11 |
| What spongers do | 16 |
| Sponge on | 9 |
| Scrounge | 8 |
| Pick up like a sponge? | 22 |
| Make like a freeloader | 22 |
| Look for handouts | 17 |
| Impose upon a friend, perhaps | 29 |
| Do some panhandling | 19 |
| Bum off of | 10 |
| Borrow without intending to repay | 33 |
| Be a moocher | 12 |
| "Borrow" | 18 |
| Bummed | 6 |
| Sponged | 7 |
| Mooched | 7 |
| Scrounged | 9 |
| Emulated sponges | 16 |
| Begs | 4 |
| Bums | 4 |
| Acts the sponge | 15 |
| Acts the moocher | 16 |
| Acts the freeloader | 19 |
| Founder of Detroit | 18 |
| Detroit's founder | 21 |
| South Saskatchewan town | 23 |
| Something that's the most luxurious of its kind | 51 |
| Rival of Lincoln | 16 |
| Lincoln rival | 13 |
| Lincoln alternative | 19 |
| Escalade, for one | 17 |
| Escalade, e.g. | 14 |
| "The Solid Gold ---" (1956) | 37 |
| Spanish port | 12 |
| Port of Spain | 13 |
| Spanish seaport | 15 |
| Spain's Gulf of ___ | 23 |
| Andalusian port | 15 |
| City near Gibraltar | 19 |
| Port near Gibraltar | 19 |
| City on Spain's southwestern coast | 38 |
| Strategic port raided by Sir Francis Drake in 1587 | 50 |
| Spanish port from which Columbus sailed, 1493 | 45 |
| Spanish naval base site | 23 |
| Spanish coastal city | 20 |
| Southernmost province of Spain | 30 |
| Site of a Spanish naval base | 28 |
| Seaport of Spain | 16 |
| Port NW of Gibraltar | 20 |
| Port in Spain | 13 |
| Port in southwestern Spain | 26 |
| Picturesque Spanish port | 24 |
| One of Europe's oldest cities | 33 |
| Major Spanish port city | 23 |
| European port founded by the Phoenicians | 40 |
| Coastal city of Spain | 21 |
| City in Andalusia | 17 |
| Legendary founder of Thebes | 27 |