| Officially sanctioned | 21 |
| Officially retract | 18 |
| Officially restricted yet widely known information | 50 |
| Officially prohibit and this puzzle's theme | 47 |
| Officially permitted | 20 |
| Officially make | 15 |
| Officially listed: Abbr. | 24 |
| Officially leave bachelorhood | 29 |
| Officially framed, as documents | 31 |
| Officially expel | 16 |
| Officially disallows | 20 |
| Officially designates | 21 |
| Officially designate | 20 |
| Officially dating | 17 |
| Officially create, as a report | 30 |
| Officially choose | 17 |
| Officially charged | 18 |
| Officially certify | 18 |
| Officially bar from entry | 25 |
| Officially authorized | 21 |
| Officially approved, as a college | 33 |
| Officially approved | 19 |
| Officially agreed | 17 |
| Officially acknowledged | 23 |
| Officially accepted works | 25 |
| Officially | 10 |
| Official, informally | 20 |
| Official, for short | 19 |
| Official's upkeep | 21 |
| Official's staff | 20 |
| Official's helper | 21 |
| Official's call with outspread arms | 39 |
| Official witness, of a kind | 27 |
| Official witness | 16 |
| Official with a whistle | 23 |
| Official with a whisk broom, for short | 38 |
| Official with a stopwatch | 25 |
| Official with a seal | 20 |
| Official with a list | 20 |
| Official with a gun | 19 |
| Official with a beard, often | 28 |
| Official who sings in Hebrew | 28 |
| Official who hears complaints | 29 |
| Official who checks accounts | 28 |
| Official White House sculptor? | 30 |
| Official whistle blower, briefly | 32 |
| Official truce | 14 |
| Official triple decker sandwich of Denver? | 42 |
| Official trip | 13 |
| Official travel overseas | 24 |
| Official transactions | 21 |
| Official traditionally seen in a black hat | 42 |
| Official timekeeper of the Nagano Winter Olympics | 49 |
| Official ties of New Mexico | 27 |
| Official symbols of Arizona | 27 |
| Official symbol | 15 |
| Official substitute | 19 |
| Official stickers | 17 |
| Official steps | 14 |
| Official state toy of Pennsylvania | 34 |
| Official state sport of Wyoming | 31 |
| Official state dog of Alaska | 28 |
| Official state dance, somewhere | 31 |
| Official standing | 17 |
| Official stand-in | 17 |
| Official stamp in a shady recess? | 33 |
| Official stamp | 14 |
| Official spokesmen | 18 |
| Official spoken language of China | 33 |
| Official Soviet newspaper | 25 |
| Official soft drink of Little League | 36 |
| Official signer | 15 |
| Official sign | 13 |
| Official seals | 14 |
| Official seal: Fr. | 18 |
| Official seal on a Havana cigar? | 32 |
| Official seal on a document | 27 |
| Official seal | 13 |
| Official scorer's ruling | 28 |
| Official scorer's job | 25 |
| Official sanctions | 18 |
| Official sanction | 17 |
| Official rule, in slang | 23 |
| Official residence at the Vatican | 33 |
| Official required to have a beard | 33 |
| Official reproach | 17 |
| Official reprimands | 19 |
| Official reprimand | 18 |
| Official representative | 23 |
| Official report | 15 |
| Official release documents | 26 |
| Official records | 16 |
| Official recorder | 17 |
| Official record of a meeting | 28 |
| Official record | 15 |
| Official receiving a 19-gun salute | 34 |
| Official pronouncements | 23 |
| Official proclamations | 22 |
| Official proclamation | 21 |
| Official proclaimer | 19 |