| Symbolic barrier | 16 |
| Churchill's political barrier | 33 |
| Symbolic political barrier | 26 |
| Soviet barrier | 14 |
| Sixth shade | 11 |
| Post-WWII barrier | 17 |
| Onetime European barrier | 24 |
| Notation on a laundry slip | 26 |
| Imaginary divider | 17 |
| Former European barrier | 23 |
| Continental divide, once | 24 |
| Cold War barrier between East and West | 38 |
| Churchill's 1946 characterization | 37 |
| Churchill named it | 18 |
| Barrier until 1991 | 18 |
| Barrier noted by Churchill | 26 |
| Pressed | 7 |
| Put a mangle to use | 19 |
| Used a mangle | 13 |
| De-creased? | 11 |
| Mangled | 7 |
| Attended to pressing needs? | 27 |
| Did a household chore | 21 |
| Decreased? | 10 |
| Smoothed over | 13 |
| Made wrinkle-free | 17 |
| Helped with the laundry | 23 |
| Did some pressing work? | 23 |
| Did a laundry chore | 19 |
| De-creased | 10 |
| Took creases out of clothes | 27 |
| Settled, with "out" | 29 |
| Resolved, with "out" | 30 |
| Pressed, as clothes | 19 |
| Got the creases out | 19 |
| Creased or decreased? | 21 |
| Worked (out), as a riff | 23 |
| Used a goose | 12 |
| Unwrinkled, perhaps | 19 |
| Took care of pressing needs | 27 |
| Straightened, as hair | 21 |
| Smoothed (out) | 14 |
| Removed wrinkles | 16 |
| Removed fold marks | 18 |
| Removed clothing wrinkles | 25 |
| Ready to wear, in a way | 23 |
| Ready to be hung up, say | 24 |
| Pressed, as pants | 17 |
| Pressed clothing | 16 |
| Made flatter | 12 |
| Like many garments at the cleaner's | 39 |
| Had pressing problems | 21 |
| Got the wrinkles out | 20 |
| Freed of wrinkles | 17 |
| Free of creases | 15 |
| Did Tuesday's job | 21 |
| Did a washday chore | 19 |
| Did a household job | 19 |
| Creased or de-creased? | 22 |
| Completely smooth, now | 22 |
| Attended to pressing matters? | 29 |
| Attended to pressing business | 29 |
| ___ out (smoothed) | 18 |
| ___ out (resolved difficulties) | 31 |
| Like some patches | 17 |
| Like some decals | 16 |
| Attached, as a patch | 20 |
| Like some T-shirt art | 21 |
| Like a decal | 12 |
| Attached, as some patches | 25 |
| Applied, in a way | 17 |
| Applied, as a patch | 19 |
| Resolved | 8 |
| No longer an issue | 18 |
| Resolved, as differences | 24 |
| Cleared up | 10 |
| Laundry worker | 14 |
| Laundry employee | 16 |
| He has pressing problems | 24 |
| One with pressing issues? | 25 |
| One with pressing duties? | 25 |
| Certain laundry worker | 22 |
| One with pressing business | 26 |
| Worker whose job always has a new wrinkle? | 42 |
| One working on a board | 22 |
| Mangle user | 11 |
| Dry cleaner's employee | 26 |
| Pressing job | 12 |
| Press agent | 11 |
| One whose work is decreasing? | 29 |
| Dry-cleaning employee | 21 |
| Dry cleaner's machine | 25 |
| Decreaser? | 10 |
| Tuesday worker, in a refrain | 28 |
| Pressing position | 17 |
| Press person? | 13 |
| Press corps member? | 19 |
| Person whose work is decreasing? | 32 |
| Person solving pressing problems? | 33 |
| Person de-wrinkling | 19 |